give away winner

Good Morning every one........as promised I have had my give away drawing this morning, the lucky number was drawn by my hubby, and the winner is.......Greer from Vintajia Adornments....I have already emailed her with the good news! thank you everyone for entering my give away!

want to learn how to make lampwork beads

I would love to learn to make lampwork beads, does anyone know of some one in the Portland Metro area (Oregon) or in Washington, I live in Longview, that teaches lampworking? I recently bought a kiln, to do glass fusing, but really want to do lampworking.....if you know of someone please let me know
thank you!

Reminder: Last day to enter drawing for Metalcrafting 101 for Beaders

today is the last day to enter to win Candie Coopers book....Metalcrafting 101 for Beaders... its a great book, but some how I find that I have two copies on my book shelf, so if you would like the book leave a comment on my last blog post, and follow myblog, I will anounce the winner tomorrow morning

Metalworking 101 for Beaders Give away

While browsing through my beading books library  recently, I discovered I had two copies of "Metalworking 101 for Beaders " on my book shelf.........not sure how this happened, but I don't really need two copies. So I am having a giveaway ..........If you would like a chance to win my extra copy, just follow my blog and leave a comment and a way to reach you if you were to win. I will post the winner next Friday the 17th

Getting a kiln

I bit the bullet tonight and ordered myself a kiln..........I just hope its a good one, I really don't know much about this sort of thing, I have a microwave kiln, and have fun with it. But this one can do every thing, from anealing beads to precious metal clay, to ceramics........so I am excited and a bit scared too, it wasn't exactly cheap.......hopefully I am not getting in over my head

Painting With Fire

 Barbra Lewis's bokk Painting With Fire is now available for pre order on Amazon..........so she is promoting it with a wonderful give away.......the beads in the above photo, in your choice of color!!!
So just head on over to her blog and check it out!

finally getting my garden planted

Today feels like we finally got something accomplished! We have had such wet weather, it has been hard to get started on the garden, but today hubby built four raised beds, filled them with good soil, and I planted several things.........asparagus, Jerusalem artichokes, two kinds of sweet peas, and three kinds of tomatoes heirloom, chocolate cherry, and brandy vine.......but I still have a lot more to plant.......now I am wondering if I will have enough room for everything! we also want to put in a fence to protect the garden from animals and to keep our dogs in......my little pom kept us company all day in the garden, I think I am going to have to put the strawberries in a fenced place of their own, because pumpkin the pom, likes the plants for some reason, and I know he likes the berries, he was kind enough to share my strawberry short cake with me tonight!
  I still have cherry bushes to plant and raspberries and blackberries too, we need to rebuild the support  for the existing blackberry plants, so we got the supplies for that today, now we just need another dry day to work on it, maybe next Sunday.......if hubby isn't busy with other things