Order Arrived, New Beads, No Pictorial YET!!!

Paper beads are child's play? I think not. I made a bunch, covered them in ribbon/eyelash yarn, and strung them for safekeeping...awesome. Working on chainmaille techniques and wire-
wrapping every night. Spirals and loop-de-loops are soo therapeutic. Learning the chainmaille techniques is NOT coming easily to me but I'll keep trying. My fingers are sore from all the manipulation!

On a brighter side, my order from B'Sue Boutiques arrived today. In the goody bag, along with organic tea and candy, I got amazing beads. You just never know what those people are going to send you, but it's always something amazing - the good stuff! And my order, the stuff I did order, has plenty of charms, jump rings, filigree brass stampings to manipulate (some of it I'm going to have to wire), colorful seam bindings, and lovely velvet ribbon that was so worth every penny. I also got more wire (wirewrapping is addictive), Viva metallic paint in Mother of Pearl, Sculpey glaze, E6000 (which I use sparingly because it's toxic), a jumpie tool, and on and on. Took me a good part of the afternoon to open everything, ooh and aah over it, and get it in some semblance of order for close storage. B'Sue never disappoints, that's for sure.

I've been thinking about what makes this little family owned and operated business run so well. I've concluded a few things. 1) Brenda Sue is doing what she loves to do. 2) She is doing it with people she loves. 3) She is offering us the best of the best, the same things she uses to create her jewelry art, the same stellar quality. I think that's the formula for success. Enough ruminating ... time to enjoy the spoils of her success.

On another level, total change of topic, I haven't posted any photos yet because I am having PC issues. I'm not going to be able to enter the Easy Peasy Bracelet Challenge Contest because today is the last day for picture submissions, but that's all right, I'll catch the bead blog hop in March. And I can still make Easy Peasy bracelets, especially now that I have all this new stock in findings and stampings. So it's no tragedy, that's for sure.