Love it when a plan comes together..

Today seems to be one of those days when things come together, at least crafting-wise. True the new bead store that's opened near me was closed when I went past, but a nice delivery of beads and bits was waiting for me when I got home so I still had new things to play with :)
One packet was a mix of small gemstone shapes, including a heart in what looks like the same stone as a set of beads I had identified as Russian Amazonite. Suddenly I knew what to do with these beads that had been clamoring to be used, but with no inspiration. Yay!

My sodalite has arrived too which is great, I can finally do two of my custom orders.

Thursday I went shopping, exploring the local bead stores, and came away with so much great stuff. As well as a new pair of pliers and a jig for shaping wire, I got two cute ceramic pig charms with flowers and the Chinese symbols for 'fortune' painted on them. Utterly adorable. Also some velveteen and organza ribbon for a necklace idea I have, and some of that stretchy bead wire for bracelets. I was hoping to have quite a large number of them by Saturday (craft fair, yay!) but am having real trouble getting the knots to hold - they just seem to spring undone. May have to use superglue :\

Still, I'm churning out keyrings and phone charms like my life depends on it, I have my organza pouches and paper bags for the fair, and my reprinted Moo cards arrived, so I seem to be on track :) Pictures soon.

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Listening to: Iron Maiden - The Clansman
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