lisa peters ART and guest...

This year, my wonderful and talented friend Lisa Peters was presented with the opportunity to reserve the neighboring booth to 1213, which has been the home of lisa peters ART at Bead & Button for the last few years. After much thought and discussion with friends and family, she jumped on the chance.

So...it is with great pleasure that I announce that lisa peters ART will occupy booth spaces 1213 AND 1215 at Bead & Button this year.  She has doubled her space and has increased her frenzied bead, button, and cabochon production accordingly.  These are just a few of the beads she has teased her Facebook fans with:

And as if that news weren't enough excitement for a beader's heart, I can now share that I am Lisa's guest this year. Yes, that's right: Sand Fibers will be at B&B!  Yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll have some Sand Fibers Kits and patterns with me, including several brand new designs that were specifically created to "go with" the glazes Lisa has chosen to work with for B & B and a few very-limited edition surprises. Also available are sample packs as well as individual sheets of Nicole's BeadBacking and Ultrasuede and rumor has it, a Sand Fibers tutorial for working with LPA cabochons.

The amazing Alicia Hartley has been one very busy Beta Beader, preparing samples of some of the new designs and generally providing me with moral support as one of the few people who have been in on this surprise. Thank you, Alicia!!!! While she's been my second set of hands, I've been filling orders, ordering supplies, kitting, beading, and generally going crazy.

Oh...and I beaded myself an LPA Mini Flower ring, using instructions by the very talented Grace Danel. We have put together kits with EVERYTHING (including toothpicks for applying glue) you will need to create an adjustable ring with LPA mini flower cabs and beads.

A percentage of the proceeds from these LPA Mini Flower Ring Kits will be donated to charity and the specifics of these donations will be included in your kit.

Please stop by and say hello and fondle Lisa's amazing beads if you're at the show next month.  Eek!

Be well and get going, while I go freak out at how little time is left to get everything done that needs doing.

Sand Fibers Ticker

Back in the good old days, news would arrive on a ticker tape. Consider this your news ticker from southern New Mexico.  These things are not necessarily (actually, I can pretty much guarantee that they are not) in chronological order...just know that they have occurred within the past few weeks.

• The pattern for Color Study in Whites is now available. This one is hard to photograph but a blast to bead.  The only challenge is keeping track of your nine different white beads. ;)

• I have restocked the kits (without pattern CD...but you can get the pattern in the shop as well) for Corrugated Mixed Metals Color Ribbon.  The Toho triangle beads for this seem to be getting harder to find.

• The pattern for Razzle Dazzle Transitions is now available.  My Sand Fibers Beta Beader Alicia M. Hartley did an awesome job beading this up...without going crazy in the process. According to her, "It was fun to work!! Especially after I finally got the rhythm going. :)."

          This is the same pattern used for my Transitions in Steel and Bronze piece, which you may remember:

         Some patterns just take me longer to publish than others. ;o

• A customer requested a wide version of my Summer Abstract cuff and I LOVE how it turned out:

•  The first 25 spots on the Sand Fibers elite subscribers list have not been filled yet, so you can still get the one  year subscription for only $100.  In addition, Sand Fibers elite can purchase "packages" of previous months' patterns at a 50% discount. The packages will be available by the month of publication and will include all files sent out to Sand Fibers elite members during that month.  Since this is only the second month of the program, you could get all five patterns for April 2012 (Loop-de-Loop: Antiquities, Panama City Grill, Narrow Ruffles, Corrugated Sawtooth in Aqua and Plum, and Color Study in Whites) for only $25 after you've subscribed.  The subscription is quite the deal, if I do say so myself:  those who joined in April have already received patterns valuing $70.
   

And, while there's more on my list to report, I do think that this is it for now.  Be well and get going and have yourselves a wonderful weekend, my friends!

A Prize Awarded, A Pattern Published

I drew the name (random number, actually) for the winner of the Corrugated Sawtooth in Plum and Aqua kit on May 1st, as I said I would. And I notified the winner, a lovely new customer in San Francisco. And then I mailed her prize out to her. What I didn't do was post about it here. I apologize. Things have been super busy; you'll understand why later this week. For now, you can just keep on guessing.

A year after I first created the design, I have finally published the pattern for my Fiesta cuff. After I sent it out to my Sand Fibers elite (see the link at the top of the sidebar for more info) subscribers, I posted it in my Sand Fibers etsy shop.

Be well and get going! I'll be back a HUGE announcement in a few days.

Narrow Fall Ruffles

Some of you may recall the Fall Ruffles in Olive and Magenta cuff I made in response to a Bead Art Originals Team Challenge. If not, here's a reminder:

As luck would have it, a lovely customer in Singapore asked if I could size this design down to a one-inch width. Sometimes to change the width of a design is easily done by adding or deleting columns. Not in the case. I really did have to scale everything down.

Luckily, it worked out well. :) I sent the pattern out to all Sand Fibers elite subscribers this afternoon and then listed it on Etsy, so it's now available to everyone.

I'm happy to report that this is the third pattern I've released for the Sand Fibers elite subscriptions starting in April...a fourth will be sent out in the next few days.  There are still some "inaugural" $100 subscriptions left. Email me at sandfibers@yahoo.com if you are interested in one.  You can find details on this new Sand Fibers program in this blog post.

Be well and get going!

Panama City Grill

A little less than two years ago, I made this special OOAK cuff for a lovely woman.

I named it Moroccan Spice and promised her this would be the only one in its colorway, but that I would use the pattern again.

I've had the beads for Panama City Grill selected for some time, but couldn't find the time to bead it up. And then my Sand Fibers Beta Beader Karen Barber Firnberg came to the rescue and created this beauty:

The pattern for this has been sent to the Sand Fibers elite subscribers and is now listed in my Etsy shop.

I hope your Monday has been a good day. Be well and get going!

Sand Fibers elite - Subscribe to my patterns!

I'm slow. Sometimes I'm really really slow. Two years ago, some friends and customers asked me to create a Sand Fibers frequent pattern buyer program. I never did. And that's not what I'm doing now either.

Instead, I present

This is the brand-spanking-new Sand Fibers Pattern Subscription program that I am launching today, April 13th, 2012.

For the first 25 subscribers, the introductory price for a one year subscription to all new, first edition Sand Fibers patterns is only $100.  If you sign up today, you will automatically receive any new pattern I publish between April 1, 2012, and March 31, 2013, BEFORE I even list the pattern on Etsy.  I have already published Loop-de-Loop: Antiquities, which would be sent with your subscription confirmation.  Next week, I will be releasing at least three additional patterns, including the new Panama City Grill and Narrow Fall Ruffles and the not-so-new design (but new pattern) Color Study in White.

That's at least $40 worth of patterns in just the first month of your subscription. In addition, Sand Fibers elite subscribers will be refunded the value of the pattern in any (old or new) Sand Fibers kit they purchase in the Etsy store over the course of the year. 

After the first 25 Sand Fibers elite sign up, the cost of the subscription will go up to $150, so...  To subscribe, send me an email at sandfibers@yahoo.com to let me know you're interested. I will send you a PayPal invoice for the cost. Thank you much, my friends!

See how lucky this Friday the Thirteenth could be for you! ;)  Be well and get going.

Win a Corrugated Sawtooth Kit!

Did I say I was going to post again last night?  Oops...I got side-tracked with beading. I finished this new peyote triangle design - Summer Abstract (with Ridges) -

and began work on a narrow version of the Ruffles design, which I'll show you once it's done. The new bracelet will definitely be published as a pattern.

But that's not why I'm here this morning (just why I'm late...lol).  I was beading a made-to-order Corrugated Sawtooth in Plum and Aqua cuff and had to research where to restock my beads for this design.

Three different suppliers for the four different beads used.  Hmmm.  That got me to thinking (always a dangerous situation):  Wouldn't it be convenient for beaders, if I offered this particular piece in kit form?  Well, I've ordered enough beads for 16 kits to start out with.

I'm taking pre-orders for it at Sand Fibers on Etsy and plan to mail the kits out on or before April 21st.  I do not plan to restock the kits until after I return from the Bead & Button Show in June.  I'm holding back one of those kits, however, for a lucky pattern buyer this month.

During the month of April, all orders for two (2) or more patterns in the Etsy shop will be entered into a drawing for the Corrugated Sawtooth in Aqua and Plum kit, automatically.  If the person who wins the drawing has already purchased the kit, they can choose to have me send them a duplicate kit or $40 worth in patterns. I will announce the winner on May 1st.

Now be well and get going.  (Is it really Wednesday, already?)