music to torch to...

I have discovered that I need music to torch to!!! Muse, Dave Gahan, Depeche Mode, The Feeling, these seem to produce the best results!!! How very bizarre! Still if it helps then who am I to go against it eh!!!.

As you can see the "Dotty Mayhem" series continues! I am really enjoying practicing my dot placement and think that at last I have some dotty beads to be proud of. I have sold one of my sets so I am hopeful for the other 2 and who knows how many more will come along. It is a fab way of exploring colour combinations and very good for me to practice as I have quite shaky hands and this helps me to control it! These beads are going to be available for sale once the proper pictures are done. I will get a few more sets together so probabaly the end of the week before they go up! I went for a bike ride with my youngest yesterday and we rode along the sea shore and the sea was shades of green with a blue sky (and loads of cloud!) but hence the colour choice of periwinkle and teal. This colour combination works very well anyway so I went with it!!!

I have also managed to squeeze in some Olympics whilst I have been tootling around! I love the rowing and the cycling but have completely got into the swimming as well. Rebecca Adlington was supreme in the pool and will be worth watching in 2012.

anyway must dash!

TTFNx

Breaking Dawn....

Last summer I read the first 3 books in series by Stephanie Meyer (Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse). I loved them and the 4th book in the series was released last week. I bought it yesterday and 700 odd pages later I finished it!!! 24 hours to read it!!! Such a good book. If you like a brill love story that is not so gushy it makes you puke! and you like werewolves and vampires then this is a wicked series of books! Twilight has been made into a film and I believe the release date is later this year (US not sure about UK!!)
Glaring ommission from my list of fav books which I will rectify in a mo!!!

Its not very often I get obsessed by a book in that way but the compulsion to read it was huge...so no beads made last night. I think that Harry Potter fans may get it!!! I read loads but 10 mins here and there not hours solid to the exclusion of everything else. I will have to read it again but more slowly but I had to read it to find out what happens to Bella and Edward! excellent read and totally recommended!!!

TTFNx

Day one...

After a bit of a speaking to by our bank manager and some financial streamlining (!!!) my OH and me have had to get very strict with our money!!! The Sky package has been severely trimmed back (much to the eldest daughter's disgust!!! OMG no more high school musical!) and many other things lost for a while! Gonna be hard to cut back like we need to but it has to be done, going part time is gonna hurt finacially and we all live to our means and ours are about to reduce a lot! Still the lifestyle changes we are gonna have to make can only be for the better and it will help us to teach the girls some money sense, something I lack!
The bank reckon a strict year should see us sorted for the better so today is day 1!!! 363 (or is it 364 !!!) to go. I am not going to bore you with a daily countdown but I reckon the first few months will be the hardest especially with Christmas bearing down on us! and the temptation to spend like idiots!!! Still it can only be for the best and will ensure security for the girls later on!!!

Other news...I have sold another bead this week so things continue to plod along gently with my website I am tagging these posts with various ways of spelling aurorabeadz in the hope of raising my Google ratings! Lets see how that goes!! I have also got a Flickr account (not sure if I have told you this or not!!!) but the link is at the top of the blog page! Full of piccies of me beads! Not sure if I will get any bead time tonight the clock is whizzing along already be 9 before the kiln is up to temp already so maybe leave it till tomorrow night!

Anyway enough burble!!! catch ya later

TTFNx

Finally got some new stock listed!

Bless him my OH has done my photos again tonight and I have fianlly got some beads listed on the website for sale!

It has been a rough day for me really and this has been quite therapeutic for me to finally spend some time sorting stock out! My youngest daughter is being quite testing at the moment and I seem to be the focus for her tantrums. It is quite stressful when you try not to lose your rag with them but they really do push you to the limits! hey ho though thats what you get when you have kids! My mum calls it finding their niche in life!

I have got an appointment with the bank manager tomorrow so hopefully that will help with the money stresses, not that I imagine we are any different to most other people in this country what with the cost of living an all that! But I am going part time in my day job in september so any little things we can do now to help will be fab!!! This also means I can spend a bit more time making my beads which quite frankly I totally love doing. They are so relaxing to make and it is a bit of "me" time. It would be even nicer if I can successfully make a small business out of it! Share my pleasure so to speak!!!

Anyway the hour groweth late and my bed is calling me

TTFNx

Where it all began!!!

These are the very first beads that I made back in July last year! Cool eh!!!

Had a bit of a stressful day!!! My OH forgot to sort out his van insurance so it fell to yours truly to sort it out this morning. Because today is the renewal date the request for some £400 has already gone through to the bank account and I can't stop it!!! Arrggghhhh! why can't it be stopped? Because it is not a direct debit!!! Well that'll teach us to be more organised now gotta wait for the money to be debited and then claim it back! For goodness sake what a complete inconvenience! Anyway insurance sorted now!

Eldest daughter (11) has finally agreed to having her hair cut into a decent hairstyle! Bless her she was adamant that she did not want a fringe but actually it looks quite fab! Will see if I can get photo up sometime!

I got a few sets of beads made over the weekend and hopefully photographing then tonight or tomorrow so should be up on the website by Wednesday morning. Check it out http://www.aurorabeadz.co.uk/ (that is all one word and z not s!!!).

I sold another Belita Bead (my silver core beads) this weekend which always makes me happy. I have cored 6 more today but gotta polish them yet so should get them photographed later as well.

Oh well, youngest daughter is not going to sleep so I best go off and amuse her! Catch ya later!

TTFNx

It's raining again....

It's bloomin well raining again. Poor kids on their summer hols and the weather is not so fab. Still I think it is better than last year!!! Eldest daughter was hoping to spend time in front of the TV but evil mother made her go and tidy her room! She has now enlisted the assistance of the boys from next door who are actually quite good at cleaning up so she can kick back and watch them do the work. Atta girl!!!

Got some beads made yesterday and just cleaned them up (my reward for doing some serious housework for once!!!) thought I would post picture for you! it's not a fab picture, hubby is the "David Bailey" in this house but you get the idea!!! Going on the site in next couple of days for sale! These beads are very much inspired by the work of Sarah Hornik. You can find her blog here http://glassbysarah.com/ her work is awesome and she has shared some of her "secrets". I never realised that Rubino Oro (the pink glass!) was a spreader and caused this effect and I love it! I also really love pink and grey together! Gonna try other colours later!

Right more housework beckons so best be off.

TTFNx

well hello again.....

It has been a while!!! I have a blog on my website but thought that as I had an account here I ought to use it more!!! So whats been going on then? Well....I have a new website and it is all mine!!! I have made some sales from it also so things are ticking along! So Aurorabeadz is alive and kicking. http://www.aurorabeadz.co.uk/

Bead wise things have been very quiet for about 2 months because of the mega marking marathon that is university life in June and July. I am now finally on holiday till beginning of September so I am just beginning to chill! I have managed to get a couple of hours bead time in this week and made part of a collection today! You'll just have to wait though to see what I made!!! I have managed to add a couple of pictures of my beads for your delectation!!! One of them is my new silver core bead. I have just started making these and I love em!!!

Finally I have a friend who is in Bejing for the Olympics, he is a hockey ref! He is keeping a blog and I thought you might like a look see! site is http://andymairbeijing.blogspot.com/ Go take a look!

TTFN x

Edited to add: for those of you who want to know what me and my family look like here is a link to my facebook album! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=50697&l=dfebc&id=543460738

Hope it works

TTFNx