Interview with a BeadBug

Please, dear readers, settle in with a cup of tea: you are about to meet a BeadBug. Her name is Virginia Steinmetz, and her friends call her Jenny.
 
In her past, Jenny travelled the world first with her USNavy parents and then as a USNavy wife. Now, Jenny lives on 8 acres of land in Vancouver, [...]

Notes to Self – Press Kits

PART 1
We are a group of people trying to sell handmade custom items: I make glass bead artisan jewellery. And we have little money to splash around. Our office location is often in the back bedroom, on the kitchen table, or in our basements. We all need ideas that cost little or no money  and [...]

FLASH – My Christmas Gift

I got my Christmas present early this year. And it’s just what I wanted.
In September this year I joined a directory of shops where only handmade items could be listed. My shop is Glass0Beads~- the 0 is a number, not a letter o. I added some of my glass bead artisan jewellery on the site. [...]

Lampwork and Beads

Depressed? or happy?
Last week my ties with Stores OnLine, my Lampwork and Beads glass bead artisan jewellery website host, were severed.
What I know now is significantly more than what I knew when I first signed on with Stores OnLine. I had found Stores OnLine lacking more and more as time went on. It’s only my [...]

Interview Questions

Please tell my readers a bit about yourself and where we can find you on the internet.
What is your mission statement? What best describes your work?
What is your chosen craft and how long have you been working in that media?
Why did you choose this over other crafts?
What, or who, inspires you the most? In life? [...]

Notes to Self – The Great FLOOD

We were sitting after dinner when my sister and I heard rushing water. We knew it wasn’t the dishwasher; it has a completely different sound. And it couldn’t be our washing machine: it’s too far away to hear it and we weren’t doing a laundry. And it couldn’t be a water feature:  we don’t have [...]

Great News – About Playing for Change

I promised myself I would write something in each of my blogs before I opened any of my e-mails. As always, I opened my emails first. But this time I’m glad I followed my usual pattern of morning coffee and emails. This time I found an email from ‘Playing for Change.’
That’s one of the [...]