Artful Adventures

Beads, beads & more beads!

A couple of days ago, a friend of mine, Amanda Davie, invited me to go with her to a bead show put on by Rings & Things.  This was the first time that I've attended such an event, and was not prepared for what I waked into-tons and I do mean tons, of beads.  I damn near started salivating at that first glimpse!  First let me tell you that if you ever have the chance to go to a show put on these folks-go!  It was well organized and the staff was great, friendly and with smiles on their faces at all times.  Now on to the beads, there was such a good, varied selection, some that I was familiar with but a lot that I hadn't seen in person before, and most of them screaming to go home with me!  We had trays, about the size of a greenhouse flat, so my shopping strategy (after realizing that no way could I buy all that I wanted) was when the flat was full, it was time to stop.  You know how much one of those trays can hold?  Lots!!  My arm was actually sore & shaking from toting it around for a couple of hours-that's bad-lol! When I got home and started putting all those strands onto the table for a photo, Gary was got this panicky look on his face and told me he was feeling faint, assuring him that I saved a lot of money by shopping like this didn't seem to help him much:)  I was well warned by Tammy about bead shows, too much temptation, she was right.  But I'll still go the next time around!  So thanks to Amanda for taking me with, it was so much fun!  Oh, and she just started blogging, so take a minute and stop by her new blog and welcome her into bloglandia, I'm sure she'll appreciate it. 

Beads, beads, & more beads!

If you want to find some deals on beads & need a little excitement in your life, cruise on over to

Lima Beads, but don't blame me when you waste the entire day watching the

The Big Green Bead Machine!  Whoever came up with this idea is brilliant!  Here's the scoop, 12 different types of beads appear for 5 minutes, after 5 minutes, the price on them is either reduced or if they sell out, there'll be something else put in it's place instead.  So you watch, and hope they'll go down more in the next 5 minutes, or that something even better will show up next.  The beauty to it all is that you have 3 days to purchase them, so if you get caught up in the excitement (can we say EBAY-lol) you don't have to buy them, they just go back into inventory.  Not the best explanation, but go see for yourself, it's kinda fun, you just never know when that certain gemstone you've been wanting will show up on there:)  Have fun!!