Hip to Bead Book and my Beading, plus prizes giveaway

The baby shower went terrific! I had about 95% attendance and the Mommy was very, very happy. Personally, I had a great time. The most fun activity: the binky necklace game. It was a riot listening to all the many "cutes" and seeing the necklaces go from person to person.

I gifted my friend with a baby blanket--sorry, I didn't get a picture, when baby comes I'll take a picture of it :). It is a nice dark teal blue.

Now for prizes for my dedicated blog readers. Thank you for giving me  a shout-out. Sometimes I think I am all lonely...I think most bloggers like to see comments...what do you think? Anyways, thanks for dropping me a hello and for cheering me on for the baby shower. It is the first party ever that I throw and I am thankful for your support!

Anyways, for prizes, I gave all the comments to Monday's post a number and threw them in the random number generator. The prizes will go out as follows:

1. Starbucks $10 giftcard: Alwen

2. Set of stitch markers: my friend and neighbor Tina (totally random, lol, lucky Tina--maybe she will come visit me and I can give them to her in person)

3. Set of stitch markers: Danielle, whom gave me the idea of the babies in the ice

Top Picture: Katie Hacker's: Hip to Bead book. She sent me an autographed copy of her latest and so-inspirational beading book. Now, I only wish January was here so I can have some downtime and start beading. She sent me a few little things to get me started in my journey: bead stringing wire, a polyester chain (soooo way cool), Japanese Glass beads (sooo beautiful, I will put them in a bracelet) and crimping beads (must get a crimper tool). Thank you Katie...enabler! hehehe.

Other pictures: necklaces I have created with my beading skillz. Granted a necklace takes me about 2 hours to make but they are so worthy of the time put into them. There are two of them: one with blue swarovski beads and one with orange beads. The other beads are ceramic (green) and the black with white spots are glass.

Comments

[Nadine B]

OMG!!!!!! I got my ESG wonderloom on Friday. I love it!!! within 5 minutes I had a project going on it, and it has turned out beautifully. Oh, it is exactly what I wanted. Please tell your husband he does amazing work and will be ordering more after Christmas (holding out for a GAL). Thank you soooo much.

[KnitPastis]

I am with you here on the comments sweetie. Always. You are not alone. I am in LOVE with these bracelets and stitch markers. I have never seen anything like them. I mean, these are REALLY beautiful!

Yay, the baby shower went well!

[Kathy N]

I knew you'd eventually see the addiction in the shiny little baubles! ;-)

[Marisol]

Pretty pretty bracelets! So glad your baby shower extravaganza was a success!

[Nadine B.]

I understand the down time thing. I decided (since I can loom stuff pretty fast, oh and I'm broke) that I would make most of my Christmas presents this year. Hooo boy is that a long list. On top of two babies for which the showers are at the beginning of December. Oh and a craft swap...how do I get myself into these things. I just want time to make myself a pair of slippers. So many projects, so little time.

I am glad the baby shower went well. It is an awesome sense of accomplishment when something you plan goes well.

[alwen]

Wow, thanks, Isela!

I had a scary day where I thought my ISP was gone & I couldn't get any email -- oh, the withdrawal symptoms!

So you just made my day!

[mommyandmeboutiuqe]

Just a note to say hi. I saw your site on the flicker exchange of blogs. That would be quite nice. Writing your blog down.

Your little girl in her tutu is darling!

[Jennifer]

Lovely beading!

[Kim]

Oooh, nice beading! (And nice photos, too! Good use of depth of field, and all that, haha.)

[Laura]

Very pretty necklaces! I belong to a knit/crochet/craft group at my job, and a lot of the ladies make beaded jewelry, but I don't know if I would have the patience for it, LOL! I'm glad to hear the baby shower went well!

[Jeannie]

Glad the baby shower was a success.

Congrats to the lucky winners of the bloggy prizes!

I love beading. I have more beads/supplies than I will ever use, but I still keep buying more (this is true of every craft in which I indulge). Your necklaces are very pretty.

Huggz!

[Katie F]

I love the big green bead in the middle of the orange necklace. The funky odd ball beads are the best!