News Category

I’ll have a booth in the Everybody’s Day festival in Thomasville, NC on September 26th. The first Everybody’s Day Festival was held in 1908. It is North Carolina’s Oldest Festival. There will be approximately 145 arts & crafts vendors, a children’s area, three entertainment stages and a golf tournament. The show is sponsored by the Thomasville Medical Center. I’m pretty excited about setting up that Trimline canopy I bought on Ebay this summer and of course, showing my jewelry. Can’t wait. So much to do to get ready!

Samantha Webster from Creative Loafing interviewed me as part of a series she is doing on Charlotte area jewelry artists. The series will appear in the Klepto blog.  I was thrilled to participate! Can’t wait to read the rest of the interviews.

Are you planning to apply for a space at Craft Attack? If you answered “Yes!”, be sure to submit your application by July 31st. It’ll be here sooner than you think.

If you’re not familiar with Craft Attack, it’s an outdoor show that will be held from 10 am – 5 pm Saturday, October 10th at Independence Park in Charlotte – Google map. It’s organized by the Hornet’s Nest Crafters Etsy Street Team.

Vending spaces are 10 x 10 feet and the fee is $75.00. Two artists may share one space. They said the jewelry category is one that fills up fast to be sure to enter ASAP if you’re interested.

Here’s a look at the beads I bought at The Down The Street Bead Show.

It was hard but, once again, I stuck to my Fall color palette. I love the sterling silver links on the left. The beads (also starting from the left) include: Black Labradorite, Agate, Australian Opal, Zebra Jasper, Rock Crystal, Ruby Red Quartz, Mookaite Jasper, Freshwater Pearl, Mother of Pearl, Bronzite and Eyeball Agate. Yum!

If you’d like to wander around a bead show this weekend, check out the Down The Street Bead Show. This will be my first time attending the show. I believe it stops in Charlotte a couple times a year. Here are that details:

The Down The Street Bead Show
at the Charlotte Merchandise Mart at The Park
800 Briarcreek Rd
Charlotte NC 28205

Saturday June 27th (10am-6pm)
Sunday June 28th (10am-5pm)
Admission if free but you will have to pay a $6.00 parking fee.

Took me forever to take a photo of them but here are the beads I purchased at the Rings & Things Bead Tour when it hit Charlotte.

I tried to stick to the color palette I plan to work with for Fall. There are a few strands of sterling silver beads on the left. The stones (also starting from the left) include: Astrophylite, Hematine, Tourmalated Quartz, Ruby, Crackle Agate, Garnet, Kyanite, Lapis, Blue Sponge Coral, White Coral, Fossil Coral, African Opal, Brown Zebra Jasper, Sunstone, Botswana Agate, Smoky Quartz and finally, Picture Jasper. I can’t wait to begin working on some new pieces!

Woke up this morning to a suspended account from Twitter. Since they didn’t bother to notify me that they suspended my account, I have no idea what happened. I clicked the “head over this way” link on my profile page to find out why I was suspended. It displayed the following: “Entry not found. You do not have access to entry #14362. It may have been deleted.” Nice. (more…)