The Bead Spot

Fire Mountain Gems Giveaway Because of a tweet, I found out Fire Mountain Gems is having a giveaway. You enter through the shop's  Facebook page for free supplies. The first giveaway is today. I've got my fingers crossed that I'll be among the winners, but I still wish good luck to everyone else who enters, too. Stretchy String Not Good I made some children's necklaces out of wooden beads and stretchy string one day last week and gave one to my toddler. Within minutes, she had the stretchy string stretched out so that there are now some huge gaps between the beads. I think next time, I'm going to use monofilament. Deer Skin Project On Hold A few months ago, I mentioned  that I was stitching beads onto deer skin for the first time. I got into a rhythm with attaching the beads, but it was slow going and the further along I got in the project, the more I wished that I had used a different color. The brown of the skin and of the beads is just too close. I th...

I'm kind of a late bloomer when it comes to Twitter , although I've had an account for a few years now. I've mostly used it to interact with businesses that post discounts and other promotions, but I'd go months without checking my account and at one point was debating just closing it down. However, my interest in Twitter has grown quite a bit recently as I have done more exploring on the site. One thing I learned recently is that people have bead giveaways via Twitter. I entered one myself, the rules of which required only that I retweet the post. I'm sure that there is a whole beading community on Twitter isn't news to most readers of this blog, and I know that my chances of winning the contest are pretty slim, but I'm very excited to see what else -- bead related and not bead related -- there is out there. The contest I entered will be closed by the time this posts, but I found another via Twitter. To enter the contest, though, you must connect to F...