DONE!!

I'm completely finished with the studio organizing project!!   (Finally!)  Whew, that took a while.  I promise myself I will never have to do that again!

View from the door

Torch Bench

After ~ All set and ready for beadmaking!

Studio Update

So I've been organizing in my studio AGAIN!  I'm getting the glass done this time though, so hopefully, this is the last full on studio re-do I'll ever have to do.  I have made a big dent in the glass storage going from this:

Before

To this:

After

WHEW!  That was a bigger project than I anticipated!  In all honesty, I'm still not finished (I will NOT show you pictures of the piles that are still on the floor! lol)  But I'm getting somewhere, and I'm already finding it easier to decide what colors to use.

While I've been working on this project I've come to realize that I have a LOT of tools that are begging for some sort of organized storage too.  

If there was a "Hoarders" show for crafters, I would probably qualify!

But the upside is I've decided to start a "Tool Talk" segment on my blog.  I'll feature one tool (hopefully every week) let you know if I have any hints or tricks to using it, whether or not I would buy it again, show you some samples of what I've made with it, etc.  And the (other) upside is that this will make me really focus on each tool and possibly even part with the ones I don't really, truly love. (Read - more room for new tools!)

Okay ~ diving back in!  I've already started thinking about the first tool review ~ and it's one I've only had for 4 days and I already love!

I'll leave you with a little cleaning music ~ crank this one up and try not to dance!

Rebranding

New Year ~ New Look!

I've been giving this a lot of thought lately, and I think it's time for a change.  I've been using the same images to represent my business since practically the very beginning.  However, those images really no longer represent what I do, or can do.  My work and my business have evolved and it's time my brand reflected that. I think it's time for a fresh new look!  This probably won't happen overnight ~ I've still got a thousand business cards and a few hundred address lables with the old design, and lots and lots of updating to do on websites, but I will slowly be changing everything over.

I'll be changing from this:

To this:

Welcome to my new logo picture!  Same great affordable beads, made with the same love and sunshine, just updated!

I haven't made the flat squares in over a year, and my .co is now a .com ~ so I'm ready for a fresh new start!