New beads – bone and fish

Two new items for today:

New bones for fall and other updates

Old Stripe Bones

Right now I have too many ideas and not enough time! Good place to be, I guess. Frustrating, but in an interesting way. The photo above is a sneak peek of a new series of bones. For lack of a better description, “Old Stripe Bones” since the stripe looks old/antiqued. It is also kind of 3-D with layers from the colored glass.

I will be listing a bone and fish after posting this in my Etsy store, then… torching!

In other news…

Femme Fus Sand Dollar Ornament

I am getting a really late start on my Femme Fus Komen Race for the Cure fundraising this year. Ack! First up, are the Sand Dollar ornaments. I will also be doing the glass ribbon raindrops, like last year. Email me if you are interested in making a donation for these items. I donate 100% to Komen, and also kick in the shipping. Such a deal!

I also have a some fun miscellaneous bead items this year, that I am offering first to my bead people, since you were so awesome supporting our team last year! I have the beads listed on our fledgling Femme Fus Facebook page.

How to get your beads
These items are you choice, first come, first served, with your  donation of $30 or more for our Femme Fus team. Just add a note on your donation for with your selection. Thank you!

Barnie chillaxin' by his scratching post

Happy Caturday!

I have updated my Barnie the Barn Cat story on my vet site. He is such a ham.

Race for the Cure Sand Dollar Ornament

I participate in the Komen Race for a Cure on a team called Femme Fus. I donate beads for this cause. This is my first “thank you for your donation” item for 2009. (More to come – sneak peek here)

The bead is made by me and is a pink filigrana glass lampwork bead. The small metal charm is an awareness ribbon.

The ornament hangs on “Femme Fus Pink” ribbon – ready to decorate your wall all year round!

Click here to learn more about this ornament and how to get one for yourself.

Sneak Peek – Femme Fus beads

I am scrambling to get the Race for a Cure things going, including (cough cough) my running training! Eeeek.

I have the sneak peek up – a gallery of this year’s “thank you for donating to our Race for the Cure team” beads up on our fledgling Femme Fus Facebook page.

This is a sneak peek. If you see something you gotta have, please email me for details!

Go straight to the photo album and → See the beads

Busy! Bead stuff tomorrow

Mr Stinky

Busy non-bead day today. I hope to do some bead stuff tomorrow. Here’s a run down.

• I updated my barn cat story. (Oh that face!)—>
• I added a photo album on my VetMed Facebook page:
  100 year old barn restoration
• I blogged about a cool vet blog.
• I did lots of housecleaning (sorry no links or photos of that)
• And I am gearing up the Femme Fus site and bead stuff!

Whew! Now it is family movie night. I’ll be back with updates to my Etsy store and info on this year’s Race for the Cure bead items.

New Listings on Etsy

Hey I finally, finally listed a couple of items on Etsy. It’s about time.

What I have been working on

Summer 2009 has been a busy one. We spent lots of time at the Oregon Coast, my favorite place on earth. I loved escaping the hot, dry heat for some nice cool mist and fog.

While there, my son (age 11) and I took a class in glass paperweights and had a great time. Here are my paperweights. My son made four too! The one on the left was my first, and despite some major chill marks (ridges), I love the “wave” in the center. This was just for fun. Hard to photograph, too.

I AM going to keep making beads. I have also been torching and getting ready for fall. I plan to list a few new beads (after a looong drought) on Etsy later today or tomorrow. Here is a sneak peek.

I purchased some awesome fused glass pieces this summer at the Astoria Sunday Market. What a fun market! Earlier this summer, a great friend of mine gave me a bunch of glass sheets… hmmm … fusing is in the future, I think.

August 2009 Update

Hello and thanks for stopping by. I am busy doing some “behind-the-scenes” database work. (At least I hope it stays behind-the-scenes). I am merging my old Bead Blog with this new completely WordPress run site.

The URL will stay the same (www.JanetCrosby.com/blog) and the Bead Blog archives will remain available, too.

Back in a bit with some new stuff I have been working on…