The Birds and the Beads

It is naptime, pewpewpew!

Careful when you go out driving in the morning in Lancaster County!

Laptops make good pillows. Or so I’ve heard… ^_^

In a month or two, in an effort to save money, the USPS is planning to close many of its sorting facilities. While this shouldn’t effect Priority Mail delivery times, it is expected to add a day or two to First Class delivery times.

Again – these closures won’t begin until the spring, but I figured it can’t hurt to start giving folks a heads up so they won’t be too surprised when it happens.

I’ve been busy with my new lucite flowers this weekend, and now have two new sizes/shapes (and some bead mixes) up and ready go. But these are just a drop in the bucket – I have more sizes/shapes still waiting for their moment in front of the camera, and more on order! I’ve been having fun with these beads! I hope you will, too!

• 13mm x 7mm Trumpet Flower Beads
• 23mm x 21mm Tiger Lily Cone Beads
• Lucite Flower Bead Mixes

Just a little snapshot of these two friends enjoying an unseasonably warm afternoon outside together. Indira bullies our other dog, Mouse, all the time, but she has always LOVED chillin’ with Sunny. She goes where he goes, as often as she can.

Here is Mouse trying out a new bed he got for Christmas.

We should be all caught up from the long, dark, week of our well, darkness. (see previous posts). If you have NOT received a shipping notification – please let us know so we can be sure it didn’t get overlooked in the darkness. Have a great weekend!!

We should be officially back on schedule after the electrical issues that had us down from the 30th – 5th. If you are still waiting for a shipping notification – drop me a line so I can make sure your order wasn’t missed in the weekend of hustle-n-bustle. Thank you for your patience, and for all the lovely messages – they have all be so appreciated!

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Glenn, our awesome, wonderful, valiant electrician, came out today and after many hours of hard work (and sail boat talk with Eric) fixed our office lights. And our office heat! And even better – he’s coming back next week to install a few new circuits, so we can have more light! And more heat! I can’t tell you how happy I am to have my cold, dark, ice cave turned back into a warm, lit, office space.

On the down side – I’m dreadfully behind on orders. I am so sorry! Friday-Sunday will be a three day marathon of order filling galore, and we intend to be all caught up by Monday. Here’s hoping. Maybe we’ll even get a beast blog up tomorrow!

From my office of light and warmth… good night!

Hurray Hurrah – the electrician is coming tomorrow. I will be so happy to have light (and heat!!) in my currently cold and dark office. Between the short circuit inside and the cold snap outside – my temper has been the warmest thing about me the past few days. Har!

Happy 2012, friends! Our new year is off to a little bit of a rough start, between a bad case of hives for Eric, and a short circuit in the office that has left about half of it (including the lights!!) without power.

Fortunately my computer and photography areas are still powered, which has given me the opportunity (and the good excuse) for starting on the collection of frosted lucite flower beads which have been stacking up here over the past four months. These lovely beads are tricky to photograph, though, and it is going to be slow going getting them all ready for the website.

Without further ado – here is the link for the first size/shape of beads. Stay tuned for lucite, and projects to go with!

• 14mm x 10mm Frosted Lucite Flower Beads

So I went to bed last night SO EXCITED about being closed for a few days… I was thinking about all the things I wanted to do/make/create/play with today. (Thursday and Friday are devoted to cleaning…) Getting that worked up before bed was not a good thing, however, because I wasn’t able to sleep! I laid there, for hours, and thought about beads and jewelry and painting and didn’t sleep. Got up this morning too tired to do any of it!

Fortunately, I’ve woken up a bit in the past few hours, and have been having a blast. And now… I’m clearing all these goodies away so I can make some more. Yeehaw!

Just a reminder… In less than 24 hours, I will be a free woman! At least for a week, anyway. I’m closing at 4PM EST on Tuesday. If I have received your order by then – it will ship by Wednesday. I’ll resume my life as the busy bead lady the following Wednesday, December 28th.

I’m counting the hours! (Only 21 left to go!)

Yes folks, I am in need of a VAY-CAY in a major, major way. I am going to do something unheard of, and take an entire week off for Christmas this year. I will be closed from Wednesday, December 21st, through Tuesday, December 27th. (And also New Year’s weekend and January 2nd).

I will be checking my messages. If you have a beading EMERGENCY, I am not unsympathetic, and may be able to assist you. So – send me an e-mail if your situation is grave, and I’ll see what I can do.

Monday is my last day to ship (Priority Mail only) for delivery in the US by Christmas.

(Oh – and that video I posted yesterday – be careful. Listen to it too many times, and it will get stuck in your head and it is all you’ll hear at night when you’re trying to sleep….)

I thought I’d blogged this last year. Or the year before. Or the year before that. But I went through my entire blog, and didn’t find it… so here it is! I love this video.

And for a good time, see the performers actually performing it, here.

Happy Holidays!