Well it is New Year's Eve here now... and it is raining! What a way to end they year! Actually I don't really care, 'cause we are going to a friends house for laughs and bubbles... That's all that counts really! I torched for the last time this year (sniff) and was thinking about how far I have come bead wise this year. I have made 150 sales on ETSY... Made lord knows custom orders and sold 

What a year 2009 has been? It hardly seems like 10 minutes ago that we were all worried about the Y2K bug.... well I wasn't - just those darn conspiracy theorists again...

I am in the process of streamlining, reorganising and re-assessing my whole beady empire... if you can call it that. I will be closing my Artfire shop and concentrating on my ETSY store and my direct custom requests.  Don't forget you can email me at girl_friday1962@yahoo.com.au if you have a hankerin' for wierd, wacky or oddball bead requests.

May the next decade bring you all you wish for, and of course the New Year bring you Health Wealth and Happiness!

 

MWAHHHHH! (that's a kiss just in case you didn't know)

 

 

Even though I did this interview a while back... it was really hard to keep my trap shut! December's Featured Artist! I kinda feel like a little fish in a big pond when I look at previous features! Cheers for now! Maxine

For the benefit of my lovely blogger friend Mallory... here is my version of a Christmas beetle... Now I know this isn't an exact 'replica' of the beetle in my last post... but I had to give it a bit of a girlfriday twist, did I not???

Thank you to my beady friends for cheering up my day. I don't thank you enough! You know who you are! Is it maybe because Christmas is just around the corner that this goodwill spills forth? Wouldn't it be great if it was like this all year round? I am inspired by all this cheer... I have made a couple of Christmas critters, now thinking I should do some more... with a Girlfriday twist. I