It's Winter again...and it's really COLD!

It truly is winter....again. You always know it will be coming and yet, somehow, I am never quite prepared for how really cold North Dakota can get in the winter.

I needed a new picture for my website, so with some help from the season I came up with this one...yep, I went out and gathered a bowl of snow for the photo.

I spent a week away from home. It was so much fun to get out of town and just hang out, but as always, it's nice to come back home.

Let's see, I've made a few beads, finished a necklace for a customer and had a small group of teenagers over to visit the glassy space. I'm always awkward having people watch me...I'd rather be the watcher than the one being watched.

Stopping to Take a Breath...

It has been an amazingly busy and fun month. I have been working to get ALL the beads and beading stuff out to the shop in my attempt to become "organized". I'll have to let you know later if I am even a little successful.

I've also had some local customers. I laugh when they call me the "best kept secret" in town, but I guess they aren't that far from the truth. I've spent so much time and effort keeping up with the online stuff that I've not done any kind of promoting locally. It's quite a different experience to watch people shop for beads, especially when they are in my studio. I enjoyed it immensely.

And just to let you know...we still have NO SNOW!