Is Sunday The Beginning or the End?

Sunday feels like the end of the week for me. I always want to wrap things up and take stock of what I accomplished during the week. This past week was especially busy. I did manage to make another necklace with my Easy Knotter....and set up a few more designs. These knotted necklaces take me about an hour...or roughly a TV night. It is a lot better for my hands after a day of card making too..since I used to do hand stitching in front tof tthe television.

I have a few more supplies for necklace making because during the week I was at our huge Toronto wholesaler: John Bead. They hosted an afternoon lecture which I was really happy to attend: Swarovski Spring/Summer 2011 Seminar. And Yes,we were looking at 2011. Swarovski does the best trends forecasting in the world and if you are lucky enough to go to one of their seminars you get an amazing look at their predictions for trends in both the fashion and home dec arenas. And their materials are spectacular! I love their magazines and forecasting kit. I plan to mount most of it so I can see it in my studio.

And look at their trend pieces! This is the sample kit we received of some of their new designs based on the 2011 forecast. Ahh. It was so great. Naturally, I shopped at John Bead too. After an inspiration lecture like this one you'll want to start making things right away! Thank you John Bead!

The Beadbloggers were also all busy this week! Here are my links!

A Bead A Day
Have you ever fallen in love with a piece of jewelry? Lisa fell head over heels for a bracelet on a fellow beader's blog and ended up trading for it!

About.com Jewelry Making
Tammy got the 411 on some very cool new metal stamps. Though these can also be used with clay as well.

Art Bead Scene
The Art Bead Scene begins a new monthly feature - the ABS Carnival Blog! Let the Carnival begin!

Barbe Saint John - New Jewelry from Forgotten Artifacts
Bopping Along the ICE Resin Blog hop - My resin version of Little Egypt.

Beading Arts
Do you want to try lampworking? Cyndi's been busy at the torch again.

Carmi's Art/Life World
Carmi uses a candy mold to make a new resin pendant.

Cindy Gimbrone aka The Lampwork Diva
Cindy takes a bead shopping trip to the Great White North and almost passes out!

Earthenwood Studio Chronicles
Melanie unleashes her grumpy feelings with a little rant and a bead sale!

Jean Campbell
A mystery package is the catalyst for this creative challenge. Up for it? You could win a free book!

Lorelei's Blog: Inside the Studio
Lorelei had a chance, a while back (2008) to have a nice little interview with etsy seller, Patina Queen! This is Lorelei's wire supplier, and she ROCKS!

Snap out of it, Jean! There's beading to be done!
Jean is breathless with delight when she receives a gift from her friend the artist Lisa Kan!

The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Andrew shares his feelings about the awesome new Spring issue of "Stringing" magazine.