jillsbeads

August

2011-08-23T08:31:00.000-07:00

August 2011, the end of the summer.

Strays

2009-08-10T16:58:00.001-07:00

I found these outside my door today!
City life brings unexpected things!
I've been away, I'm back today.
New beads from me!
Go to my Etsy and Artfire to see.

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2009-04-16T15:39:00.000-07:00

Aurae Glass and Silver

2009-04-11T11:53:00.000-07:00

Oh these are pretty, find them at my ArtFire Shop:

Space Balls

2009-04-08T15:21:00.001-07:00

Round beads from outer space, find them at my Etsy Shop

Royal Blues and Goldstone Glass Beads

2009-04-07T15:55:00.000-07:00

New beads at my ETSY SHOP

April Flowers

2009-04-07T11:55:00.001-07:00

Southwest Feathers

2009-04-06T13:59:00.001-07:00

Some bright beads for spring and summer. Find these in my Artfire
Shop.

I'm back

2009-04-05T09:22:00.001-07:00

I had a chance to go on a trip,
and I took it! It was soooo fun!
More photos on my facebook page if you want to see.
Now it's back to beads, I've got so many to photo and get up here.

New Beads on ArtFire

2009-03-18T14:29:00.000-07:00

Visit aPieceOfWork's ArtFire Shop

Artfire is cool, it has links to all my places!

Honey Beads

2009-03-16T15:04:00.001-07:00

2009-03-15T18:14:00.000-07:00

Visit aPieceOfWork's ArtFire Shop

2009-03-15T13:02:00.001-07:00

Goldstone Seas Glass Beads

2009-03-14T11:51:00.000-07:00

These are 22mm and are at Artfire now.

Dulce de Leche Glass Lampwork Beads in Sweet Caramel Colors

2009-03-07T10:50:00.001-08:00

Here's one bead set for today, we have an hour less!!!
I better get busy, have a great weekend!
Oh, if you want to purchase these beads go to
my Etsy Shop aPieceOfWork

2009-03-06T13:41:00.000-08:00

These three sets I've added to ArtFire today.

Tuesdays Beads

2009-03-03T13:34:00.000-08:00

Find these at my ETSY Shop aPieceOfWork

Happy Spring--Almost

2009-03-01T13:16:00.001-08:00

These are for sale at my shop aPieceOfWork ETSY .

Today's beads

2009-02-27T10:26:00.001-08:00

Spring night, can be found on my ETSY store, aPieceOfWork

AND I made another set of Wild Raku beads, and put them on
EBAY

Raku Crazy

2009-02-25T15:38:00.000-08:00

Hi, I just put these in my ETSY shop!

New Beads on ArtFire

2009-02-23T16:13:00.001-08:00

Here are some new bead sets on Artfire.

Check them out!

2009-02-21T08:12:00.001-08:00

ARTFIRE

2009-02-21T08:09:00.001-08:00

New Beads

2009-02-20T14:45:00.000-08:00

More Beads, go to ARTFIRE:

http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=ViewListing&product_id=101651

and find these:

BEADS

2009-02-16T16:27:00.001-08:00

I make glass beads! I'm going to put them here now, my website overwhelmed me! It has galleries of what I've been doing, but the new stuff I'm going to put up here, it's also on ETSY

Puple Beads and President's Day

2009-02-16T12:51:00.000-08:00

I spent the last four days taking dance lessons at Valentango.
What fun that was. Now it's back to work, trying to get my beads photo'd and
out the door, if all goes well this and many more will be on my website by Tuesday.

7 Things about myself

2009-02-08T12:34:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I'm supposed to tell you 7 things about myself, here goes:

1. I'm really shy.

2. I have delusions of grandeur, look what I did to my bathroom:

But I don't even have a bathtub:(

3. I love French movies, or I should say "film".
I highly recommend a new release to video called "Priceless", very pretty, French,
and pleasant, lots of style, little else. Also "Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre"
a french horror film, that is so silly, but has some great (to my naive eyes) shots
of the Louvre and some streets of Paris. "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" really good film,
it even had substance!

4. I love to work hard at things. I love to have a new idea or way to work something and then
just make it work. Get in the zone as they say.

5.I love flowers. Perhaps just an excuse for another picture:

6. I really like'd being a mother.
Here is my baby, just about grown up:

7. It's snowing here again! Too much winter, not my favorite!

2009-02-07T10:17:00.000-08:00

This is a link to a fabulous bead artist Lynne Bowland, of Fireball Beeds

Marie Antoinette Award

2009-02-07T10:12:00.000-08:00

I've been tagged, Marie Antoinette is involved, and perhaps cake!

Song for the banks

2009-01-21T10:00:00.000-08:00

I've written a little song:
to the tune of London Bridges:

All the banks are falling down, falling down, falling down,
All the banks are falling down, no more money.

They took the cash and levered up, levered up, levered up,
They took the cash and levered up, with our money.

Called it debt and wrote it down, wrote it down, ...
Called it debt and wrote it down, took a pay raise.

Take the TARP and prop them up, prop them up, prop them up,
Take the TARP and prop them up, with our money.

But thier debts are way too big, way too big, way too big,
All their debts are way too big, where's our money?

Geithner didn't pay his tax, pay his tax, pay his tax,
Geithner didn't pay his tax, for his nanny.

He should head the IRS, IRS, IRS,
He should head the IRS, and take our money.

3 more trillion for the banks, for the banks, for the banks,
3 more trillion for the banks, take our money.

All the banks are falling down, etc........

Happy New Year

2009-01-13T15:15:00.001-08:00

Oh my, it's going fast!

Election

2008-11-07T05:56:00.001-08:00

Whew!

Interest in interest

2008-10-08T16:55:00.000-07:00

Last night the rich nations all got together and decided to cut interest rates. All over the world! And they did it, just like that!
What I don't hear anyone talking about is the mutual dependence, power and vulnerability this
implies, and how we could solve our energy and CO2 problems as well, just as quickly once
we understand how it impacts the rich and powerful!

Dancing on Air

2008-07-31T11:46:00.001-07:00

The other night at a tango lesson the teacher danced with me, for about 2 whole phrases of music. (Teachers often demonstrate moves with us students, but just dancing is rare, at least for me, so far.) It was like dancing on air, velvety air, I don't think I took a breath the whole time. We were floating and our feet were doing something mysterious far below, every every second seemed magnified as I stretched my leg as far as possible behind me for a back step, ... ah, so cushioned, how does he make walking feel so soft? And now a turn ...wheee! I'm spinning so fast .....oh it's over, oh my, where are we?
Why doesn't he just teach all these guys to do that? (I get impatient!) Tango doesn't look from the outside like it feels doing it-- like so many things in life! The feeling of velvety floating stayed with me for days!

July 22, 2008

2008-07-22T10:16:00.000-07:00

It's been awhile, but I've been doing interesting things, at least to me!
First here's my Etsy store today, I'll update it more frequently!

Friday, November 9

2007-11-09T13:59:00.001-08:00

Here is my Etsy store.

Etsy
Buy Handmade
aPieceOfWork

2007-10-27T15:22:00.001-07:00

I took some pictures of Portland's beautiful fall foliage for you. If you click on them they'll get bigger. It's been so gorgeous here the last few days.

Saturday, October 6

2007-10-06T10:10:00.000-07:00

I have a new auction ready, here's a preview:
Cute little etched beads in autumn neutrals.
The weather here turned so cold with October, it's hard not to think of fall wools and sweaters.
I'm off to the downtown farmer's market.

Friday, October 5

2007-10-05T15:10:00.000-07:00

So glad you've found me here! This is the first post on my bead blog!

Last weekend I went to my first workshop in bead making! It was taught by Larry Brickman and Janelle Zorko and these are the things I made in it. It was a lot of fun, and I hope to work larger, (those beads are about an inch in diameter) thanks to Larry and copperplate lots of things thanks to Janelle.
I also had a houseguest, and I'm glad to say she seems to have survived a week of me! It was very fun to have a bead maker around.

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