Next stop, Las Vegas for the annual Glass Craft Expo on April 5th through the 7th at the Sout Point Hotel. We (me and my sister Lisa) will be in our usual booth, C1, in the bead bazaar section of the expo. This is a fantastic show for glass artists and enthusiasts! And always a fun weekend for Lisa and me! What’s new this year? Well, I have my usuals along with a lovely selection of fresh fishes with matching bead sets, fun new color shell sets and a new collection of kitty earrings to mix and match and make your own pair!

So where are the photos?? I have been so busy getting all this together that I haven’t had the time to take pics YET, but promise to get photos up here when I return from my show.

What’s next after Vegas you ask? Art of Adorning the Bead in Orange County on April 27th and the LA Spring Bead Bazaar on April 28th. Busy month! So I hope to see you at one of the many shows, or be sure to email me with any questions.

It’s that time of the new year again….busy, busy, getting ready for many shows. Tucson Best Bead Show will be the first one on my list. This year I will be inside the mail hall, booth G-204. I am very excited about this move, especially because I will stay warm!

Over the holiday I made a black bear for a friend of mine who has a house up in the mountains. I had fun making the bear and it led to making many more, including a new polar bear design and a panda! I will be “debuting” these cuties at the Tucson show. In addition to the bears, there is always room for another frog. This little guy below is inspired by the fact that I will actually be able to watch the entire Superbowl game!

What’s next after Tucson? VEGAS! Then the local spring shows and, even though June seems far away, the SCUBA show is just around the corner. Check out my new 2013 schedule! I hope to see you at one of my shows! And check out my Etsy, I have some jewelry up for sale

I am happy to report I actually have a few items listed on Etsy! Including these cute little fish earrings and my “Cappuccino” fish necklace! I have plenty more, just haven’t gotten it all up on my site yet. I will be working over the next couple of days to post on my website gallery as well as a few more items on Etsy. Please check back…I mean it!

A great gift idea are my glass bottle toppers. I have several designs available, mostly all sea themed. In addition to the bottle toppers, I have a couple of key chains and handbag hangers. And check out my polymer clay BFF’s! What’s a BFF you say? Well click HERE and learn all about them!

I have one last Jingle Frog necklace available for $79, He hangs from a hand dyed silk ribbon and among his dangles, a small s. silver charm that simply says “JOY”. EMAIL me quick if you are interested!

Hi again! Yep, been a while, so sorry about that…again. It is a very busy time as I am getting ready for the L.A. Bead Society Fall Bazaar this Sunday, October 28th at the Culver City Veteran’s Hall. The show goes from 10 to 5pm and it’s always stock full of goodies. I will be back in my (almost) usual spot. I’m the second booth in the “breezeway” as you enter the auditorium. Be sure to stop by and check out the new goodies!

Next weekend I will be heading up to Oakland for the annual BABE! Show, November 3rd & 4th. This is a huge show at the Marriott in downtown Oakland. Lots of vendors, lots of glass beads and lots of fun! I always look forward to this show and seeing my NorCal bead buddies.

The following weekend (told ya it was busy!) I will be having my annual how show along with my sister, Lisa and good friend Mary Ann Groark. Lisa will be selling her fused glass pieces and Mary Ann will have her amazing metal crafted jewelry. Maya will also be there selling her handmade kid purses as well as “repping” her Aunt Leslie’s line of handbags (for adults).
If you are interested in stopping by, please EMAIL ME for more info

After all of that, it will be the all about the holidays. Crazy! It’s 80° here in Redondo today. Hard to believe we will get trick or treaters in a few days…and then start thinking about roasting turkeys! But I do like the warm weather, so no complaints here.

I know I say this ALL of the time, but I will try to get a few items up on Esty before the holidays. I have some very nice wine bottle stoppers that make great gifts. Along with some new (below), less expensive “Korky Kritters”.



Thanks again to Penny & Jean for having me to the Let it Bead studio to teach in early October! I had a really fun weekend and it was great to see you all again and meet my new friends in Arizona! You are an awesome group of gals!

Well, actually I guess it is still very much summer according to the weather, but it’s weird to think is practically September already! We are lucky to be close to the ocean and not have the triple digit temps here, but it is still quite warm. Not as warm as the Sea of Cortez which I recently returned from after a glorious week of diving from the Rocio Del Mar and best of all, swimming with whale sharks! What an amazing experience that was! This photo (above) was taken by Roger….who was lucky enough to have an hour swim with his own “personal” whale shark! A few weeks before our trip I was keeping very busy with the ISGB Gathering in Seattle and then the San Diego Bead Society show. Thank you to all who came by my booth! I was excited about our upcoming holiday and made my first whale shark bead. I was happy with this one, which sold at my show, but I can’t wait to make more! Now that I have seen them up close and a personal, I have more detail to add to my next one.



Another design I am working on is my “Over/Under” series. This was my second one (SOLD), still in the prototype stage, but will work on more of this design.
My upcoming shows for the rest of this year have not been inked, but most likely I will be at the L.A. Bead Society show on October 28th and most likely BABE! in November. I will update my show schedule page as soon as these are inked shows. I am excited to be teaching at the ASGB in Glendale, AZ in October. I had an incredibly fun class up in Seattle and look forward to doing that again!

In the mean time, I will be updating my etsy and gallery pages. I know, I always say that. One of these times, I am actually going to do it! Please check back soon!

I love summer! I know that living here in So Cal is kind of like living in summer most of the year. But there is a whole different feel. I like hearing the kids playing, I love the longer days of sunlight and all the fresh, wonderful fruits and veggies in their peak time. Summer is just a nice time of year. But half way through it gets to be busy time for me.

This year I will be teaching and attending the ISGB Gathering in Seattle, WA. This will be my 4th Gathering and I look forward to the conference as well as hanging with my good friend, Hayley Tsang Sather. Hayley lives in San Francisco, so we don’t get to see each other often. But we make the most of our weekend with the conference, plus wining and dining. (and with wining, I don’t mean complaining!)

Okay, enough of all that personal stuff, what the heck have I been working on?? Recently I made this very cool bottle stopper that I call California Kelp Forest. I also took this very pretty purple turtle bead and created a fun copper and amethyst crystal necklace.

I have quite a few pieces that will be featured in Bead Studio Magazine in the next few months. So please check that out too! One of these days… (sigh)....I will get more bead pics up on my gallery page.

Upcoming shows….I will be showing at the Gathering bead bazaar in Seattle on July 28th. This show free admission and is open to the public. It is ALL lamp work artists! no pearls, no imports, so findings….all GLASS! It’s pretty amazing and there is no other show like it in the world! The following weekend I will back at the San Diego Bead Society annual bead bazaar on August 4th & 5th. Always a fun show. So stop by if you are anywhere near by and say hello. Always tons more at my booth than what I have on the website!

Anyone in the Phoenix area want to take my class? Spots are still available. Please check it out HERE!

What an incredibly, busy time this is for me! The Orange County Bead Society show at Bowers Museum is this Saturday, April 28th from 10 - 4pm. Then just a short week later is the Long Beach SCUBA show, which is my biggest, busiest jewelry show of the year! The SCUBA show is a month earlier than it’s usual June time slot. So I am doing my best to make beads, then jewelry, more beads, more jewelry…..

I have been having fun making beads on keys. This is a fun, easy piece to have. String it up on a ribbon one day, put it on a chain the next! I am also getting a few tutorials together for Bead Design Studio Magazine, (my favorite bead mag!) so stay tuned for that! I will be updating my website (promise!!) after the SCUBA show is over.

Although my website may need a bit of attention, my show schedule is all up to date. So if I’m in your area soon, stop by the booth and say hello!

Spring is almost here and that mean it’s busy time for me! My next show is the GlassCraft Expo in Las Vegas coming up at the end of this month, March 30th to April 1st. As always I will be in booth C1 in the bead bazaar area. Check out my new little birds, including penguins and blue boobies!!

Another fun bead created recently is my whimsical, yet maybe a little wrong, Frog & Duck bead. This was meant to be a little frog playing in his pool with his duck toy. But it has had other activities linked to it. This bead has sold…but I just may make another, if persuaded!

April is a very busy month. I have the OC Bead Society show on April 28th, then the following weekend, May 5th & 6th, is the SCUBA show. The SCUBA show is a month early this year, so I will be keeping very busy making beads as fast as I can then getting them strung up for the show! Kind of crazy but that’s the way it worked out this year. Sorry to anyone expecting to see me at the L.A. bead show….just not enough time…and beads!

I have a couple of teaching dates booked…check out my schedule for updates. Thanks for checking in!

Well here it is, the last day of this year. And the first time I have posted since July??? ooops. Kind of let this go for a while. So, excuses...my computer was flaking on me a lot (no really, it was!) and I was on my ipad more than the computer and I can’t update from that. Good news, I recently got a new computer!
And then there’s the kitties. We added one more to our group in September (4 total now) and she is sooo adorable! Nikki (posing in Santa hat) is now 8 months old and just as cute as can be, but she is a handful! She gets along with great all the other kids and has quite the out going personality.

Travel: Kentucky for the ISGB Gathering, 8 days in San Diego for a bead show, plus I taught and took a workshop, Mammoth Lakes for a long weekend with good friends
Roger and I finally got back into warm water, one glorious week in Cozumel was just what we needed to rejuvenate and inspire! And one of these days, I will go through all that video I shot, which will also be easier with the new mac.

The holiday season has been busy as usual. Thank you to all who thought Jujee Beads made the perfect gifts for their special ones. I appreciate your business!

Be sure to check out my new tutorial on making puffin beads in the latest issue of the Flow, the annual woman’s issue!


Goals for 2012: update my website & etsy shop more often; continue to go to gym and yoga; come up with some really cool, new bead ideas and themes (already in my head....just need to produce!); dive in warm water; teach more!
All doable, right? Wish me luck!

I hope your 2012 is wonderful, happy and healthy! Cheers!

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Tags: glass beads, lampwork, flamework, fish, frogs, kitty

Sometimes I update my site starting with “wow, I can’t believe how long it’s been...”. Well, this time I am just embarrassed how looong it has been since I have updated! There has been a lot going on, as usual. I had my SCUBA show at the beginning of June which was very successful Thank you for all who stopped by to check out the new designs! I also would like to thank Mazet Studios and Rickie Voges Designs for being part of my show.

And now it’s July and just 2 weeks before my next show in Louisville, KY. at the Gathering and then a week after that, the BSSDC show in San Diego on August 6th & 7th. I am doing my best to create new goodies as well as replenish my popular beads, like my shell sets and critters.

A new item I have been on is putting sea star designs on old skeleton keys. I have also been making beads on the keys too. I will try to post more pics very soon.

It has been very warm here in So Cal so I decided it’s about time Sebastian get a little trim. This is a fun shot of his “lion cut”. He is very happy! Yes, he really is! (I like his new tail!)

I am also pleased to call my self a diver once again. It had been almost two years, but I finally got back int he water, battling the 50° water temps here in sunny So Cal! I got to see my favorite critters, the nudibranchs. And they were everywhere! I saw 7 different species! It was very exciting and yes, I was cold, but it was it was worth it. I didn’t take a camera, but my friend Jim did and got this great shot of my favorite CA nudi! More news soon....