I love it when artists imitate nature. I was doing some house cleaning not so long ago, and spotted this nest of eggs in the window. I think they belong to geckos but I’m not 100%. I love how these are almost perfect egg shapes and they reminded me of my white beaded necklace. The garden lizard eggs I used to find as a child were always a bit wonky shaped, so I’ll say my beads are lizard eggs!
I spotted these gecko eggs in the window sill
My hollow white beads on a necklace
So. What happens when you go away on holidays? The cats away and the mice shall play, hmm? Or is it the humans are away and the cat shall play? The cat shall sleep in my sheer white photographic light cube tent and leave her grey hairy mess in there. That’s what happens when you go away on holidays and leave your cube (or new cat cubby house) on the floor. Stupid humans. LOL!
Oh dear. My contact form has been broken for a while. While I thought it was something hard, like, learn Javascript in a week, it turns out the fix wasn’t too hard. (It did require some mental strain through my notorious sleepy hour of 3 to 4pm plus four crackers with cheese!) SO IT’S FIXED. C’mon, send me a message. Tell me how much of a doofus I am for taking so long 
Hello. Just a quick note to show you what I’ve been working on lately. These will go up on my Etsy shop in the next day or two. The colour on the left is a yummy ivory colour called Butter Pecan. I’ve been searching and experimenting with off-white colours for a while now and I’m really happy with this one. It’s a unique colour that may not be continued in production as it could be a difficult colour to replicate, but that’s the nature and beauty of glass production – you don’t always get the same results every time. So I am buying as much of it as I can even though it costs a lot more than regular colours. It’s just too nice not to.
And it was just a coincidence that they are all 5’s 
If there is one big bonus of making your own beads, it’s getting to play with your beads. Going back to when I was a little girl, rummaging through mum’s sewing boxes, she had the ultimate treasure box hidden deep within. This box would keep me amused for what seemed like ages and I never tired of it. What was in it? Buttons. Now I get to make my own treasure box of odds and ends, orphans and one-of-a-kind type beads that sit all together in a mix.
So, one day I was taking photos of my beads and just had this need to pour out all the beads and play. I came up with a pretty little scenario and decided to take a photo. I call it Flowers and Bees.
I hope you’re getting a well-deserved break, I know I am. Catching up with stuff around the house and with friends is really awesome. And the weather in Brisbane right now is REALLY good – not humid, not too hot, just lovely. It would be perfect weather for a picnic actually. And maybe perfect for making beads
I took this photo at a Florist’s shop window one night. I was dining near by and wondered past this pretty little scene. Too cute not to take their photo!
It’s hard to see your own work when you are on the inside of your creativity bubble. So it was nice to take photos of someone wearing my beads. Thanks to my sister Heather, all I had to do was ply her with good coffee and sandwiches and she happily wore my beads and stared out the window with wispy looks on her face for a few hours on Sunday. I think she is a natural.
Yes, finally, I’m in a shop. Artisan gallery’s shop, (M)art, in Fortitude Valley will be opening a new shop on the South Bank next month and my work will be in there I’ll have more details on their new shop soon. 
So now that I have finished bunching them together for photographs and cooing over them like a big clucky hen, I hatched those little (big) beads and put them into necklaces. The pink is such a pretty soft shade and really should be made into a gelati flavour. Sigh.
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