Fall Pantone Bead Swap Reveal

On Monday LiliKrist, my partner in the swap, got the package I sent her. She liked how neatly I had packed it. I was looking forward to arrival of her package from Indonesia. When I arrived home from work on Monday night there was a tag on my mailbox to let me know that I had missed a package. I was not able to get to the post office until tonight on the way home from work.

Here is what I picked up.

Inside was this beautiful quilted pouch fill with neat little wrapped packages.

The contents all laid out in their labelled bags.

Here is a closer look at the beads for each colour.

French Roast - daggers and seed beads

Honey Gold - mushroom beads and seed beads

Pink Flambe - Swarovski bicones and agate beads

Tangerine Tango - Java seed beads in orange and dark orange

Ultramarine Green - Aventurine and petal beads

Bright Chartreuse - lentil and square beads

Olympian Blue - Agate and Handmade Ceramic bead

Titanium - crystal drop beads and recycled glass beads

Rhapsody - Stick beads and owl bead

Rose Smoke - round and heart beads

I am looking forward to playing with these beads and make some new pieces.

Thanks LiliKrist for these great beads from the other side of the world!

Another beading challenge

Wow, I was selected to be one of the four beaders to get a selection of beads from Crystal @ Bead Happily Ever After. She provided Lori Anderson (our Bead Soup guru) with 5 identical kits of beads. We are each going to make something and post our creations on November 10.

Here are the four lucky participants. 

Flop Cat Design

Mixed Mayhem Studios

It's a Beadiful Creation

Roxi Designs

I now have two packages on beads that I am waiting for.

Stay tuned for my holiday bling reveal on October 6 and the arrival of my Pantone swap beads (which are coming from Indonesia) and these great beads from Crystal.

Sneak Peak - Holiday Bling Blog Hop

Yesterday was a great day. As I was leaving to head to a presentation for work, I was happy to see a small package in my mail box. It was from my Holiday Bling swap partner Monique Urquhart. I put it my bag and headed off to the presentation.

Working at the library allows me to be surround be one of my favourite things, books. The presentation yesterday was publisher representatives telling us about some of the great fall book releases for children and teens. We are given advance reading copies of some titles, but get to hear about many books we can share in storytimes, class visits and with our customers. I always leave these presentations with many titles added to be TBR (to be read) list.

I carried my package from Monique to the presentation, back to my branch and then home without opening it. I was very tempted but I wanted to record the opening to share here.

So here is a peak of the opening of the package. You will have to come back on October 6 to see what is inside. I can tell you it is amazing!

A New Swap - Pantone Fall 2012 Bead Swap

I have joined another bead swap. This time it is to share beads that match up to the Pantone Fashion Color Report Fall 2012. This collection of 10 colors are the hot fashion colors for the season.

From Pantone website

Once we are partnered up with a fellow beader we get in touch so we can agree what we are interested in getting and sending within the Pantone Fall Colors. We have until September 17th to pull together and mail out our beads.

I am looking forward to finding out who I am partnered with tomorrow!