Blogging... and... Blogger

I've been... crazily, stupidly, ludicrously busy with work, involving lots of  'after hours'. The project I'm helping to look after has a massive deadline looming, and I'm needing to take material home with me at night in order to make sure we make it over the line. I get paid for all this, so there's no complaint... except I have less time for writing, designing, creating. My current plan shows me as having everything done by Monday - so I should be back to beading, photos, blogging and all things craft-community-esque then.

Also - I received a letter from Blogger letting me know that in a week or so they'll no longer be supporting FTPed blogs (like mine!). So I may move house (ie URL) for a bit as I migrate. There'll be redirection etc once I set it all up, but if I vanish, fear not, I shall return :)

Randomness and beadery

Okies, I had a great weekend for beading. I made a heap of new french beaded earrings, hopefully I'll get some pictures of those up tonight at lease as a work in progress pics for facebook, if not also listing them on Etsy.

Also - I got the most gorgeous custom order request for some green space robot earrings (which are now called GSREs around the house) with a matching pendant, so I got those finished up, packed up and ready to post out.

AND after my highly technical "pull a piece of paper out of a hat" for last month's giveaway, I now discover this: http://www.random.org/. Lots of true random number generators for doing fair lotteries. So I'll use one of these for next month's giveaway, which I'm thinking will be a wood themed one :)

ALSO I got a new computer today =) so tonight I will be madly installing everything and getting into being a mac user. Scary but fun, looking forward to being able to keep one hand on my beading and one hand on a laptop. Will post some photos tonight!

And the winner is...

Thanks to everyone who entered! I used the highly technical method of writing everyone's name on a slip of paper (or two or three slips of paper for some!), and popped them in a bowl, and asked Brett to pull one out and...

Voila! (and voilin ;-)

Congrats Katie :) I will be in touch via email to grab a mailing address from you.

I will run another giveaway in a few weeks, I'll post it here and on twitter/fb when it's getting close, so stay tuned!

More works in progress

Kind of caught up in trying to make something out of this colour scheme...

• turquoise/aqua
• silver
• dark violet

not sure why, just seems to be where I am at the moment...

Pew pew!

Yay! Sold a Pewpew necklace. So I made one more and put it back up for sale.

Still excited by the idea that someone in the US will be wearing my crazy gear :)

Bookmark finished

I haven't decided if this is a gift or a sale item yet... or maybe just a proof of concept :)

Space invader bookmark!
What do you think? Sell or give? Have to work out the pricing yet, but I'm guessing it would be too pricey to sell unless you're as much of a gaming nut as I am :) Still, they make nice room ornaments!

Storqued!

This is an old Storque article, but I only just discovered it! Lurking there, between the 2 and the 4... my 3 earrings!
http://postserver.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/etsy-finds-1-2-3-4-1619/