Beaducation's New Digs...continued!

Hey all!  Earlier this week I wrote a post over on Beaducation's blog with lots of before and after pix of our new office.  Hop on over and check it out :)

Campin' and Stampin'

A few weeks ago, we made our annual journey to the Strawberry Music Festival.  Camp was great, music was fabulous, the weather....not so much (it snowed on us a bit!).

When the sun popped out, out came the tools and I stamped about 50 pendants for the folks in our camp.  I have discovered my new all time favorite place to stamp....ON A STUMP!

My goodness, I have never had such a successful stamping session.  The resistance from ol' mother nature was perfect.  No wobbly table, no bounce back, just a strong stable foundation from deep in the earth.  It also helped that I was using a high quality Beaducation stamps set :)

Team Beaducation! PLAY BALL!

Beaducation is the proud sponsor of the Blue Stars... Redwood City Girls Softball League!

Tough!

NEW DIGS!!!

We've made the big move!  Beaducation has a new home.  We have moved from 2000 square feet to 5700 square feet. Room to spread out. More room for creativity and product. We even have a dance floor.  Well, it's a large open space affectionately referred to as "the dance floor". The kitchen is huge, the creative space is huge, the shipping/warehouse has tripled in size.  We have 6 private offices, 3 custom built "cubes", 5 bathrooms and a secluded, quite shootio (shooting + studio = shootio).

On friday we unpacked the last of the mountains of green "green" bins that we rented (need moving boxes?  ZippGo is amazing!).  Late friday we put together the "creative room". Today I finished building our cubicle walls...more on that once I get the pix off my camera.  And also today I taught my daughters how to use a power drill and they put together their desks for my office (only stripped 2 screws).  My new office is super big! I can fit a desk for each of them (complete with 2 bottles of glue, 2 sets of pens, 2 sets of pencils, 2 scissors, 2 things of tape, 2 sets of pliers, 2 mix packs of wire....can you tell we have been having a bit of a sharing issue in my house lately). I even have room for a couch, work table AND I have my own bathroom....my own bathroom!!!

I will be posting a big "before and after" blog soon.  This building has made an amazing transformation.  All the Beaducators are super excited about our new home.

But for now....here are 2 "before" pictures.  Notice the nasty lighting, the lack of floor and the horrible light grey with dark grey trim paint job.  All that is gone now! More soon......

It's out...it's on the newsstands...the latest issue of Wirework Magazine!  This special issue is produced by Kalmbach, the publishers of Bead&Button Magazine and Art Jewelry Magazine.

Check it out, and let me know if you try my project....it's a dooozy!

This issue has a lot of really cool wirework projects.  The editor did a great job of finding creative, fresh and inspiring projects.

- 20+ ALL-NEW necklace, bracelet, ring, and earring projects
- Projects for beginner to intermediate skill levels
- Step-by-step photos and instructions tested by the editors
- Reference information including wire types, gauge, shape, and hardness
- A wire lovers guide to wireworking tools
- Techniques such as wrapping, coiling, twisting, chainmaking, hammering,
- And much more!

ENGRAVE IT

I am having so much fun with our new Engraving tool over at beaducation.com.  I am engraving everything in sight....jewelry, tools, my desk, my fingernails (accident and then on purpose), my metal water bottle, and oh so much more.

I didn't do that cute ass owl, Danelle did!

Bead&Button Show class registration is now OPEN!

It's that time of year again....time to get out your calendar and pick your classes for the Bead&Button Show.  I will be teaching 5 classes at the show and then will be hanging out at our booth (booth #s TBD)
Registration opened a few days ago, so hop on in there.  Those popular classes tend to fill up fast!