Back from Bead & Button

I'm back from Milwaukee and getting back to the torch. We had a lot of fun, giggled a lot, and sold a lot of beads. The Bead and Button show is one of my favorite bead shows. I have lots of fun new colors of glass from Frantz that I'm eager to try. And of course lots of ideas running through my head of things that I want to do with PMC.

Exciting news on the home front and the creativity front: Tony and Lisa (pictured below) of Zoa Art are moving here this wekeend! I am soooooo excited! We are starting a new company called Urban Relics Components, which will be a line of components for jewelry artists and other creative people. We'll have clasps, charms, and other fun little pieces that will be cast in various metals. We are all so excited about the energy that we have going, that we're truly going to have a hard time sleeping. They get here on Sunday, and as soon as they get unpacked and settled, we'll start doing some design work and then get started on the casting. We'll get a blog going on the Urban Relics Components website soon to keep everybody updated with what's going on.

While I was walking through the lobby at the B&B show one day, I whizzed through the ISGB (International Society of Glasss Beadmakers) booth, and was blown away when I saw this gorgeous display with a larger-than-life photo of one of my beads. It was one of the beads in the Trajectories collection. I honored and excited. Here's a picture of the bead and the display: