Congrats Gretchen Coats
You are the winner of my Haute Couture Contest!!! For those of you that aren’t aware, this is the stunning piece Gretchen made! and this was her inspiration:

Haute Couture Voting
I am sorry to say, that I was unable to find any local Artists to vote for the Haute Couture Contest.  I did make the attempt, but no one ever replied back. So, I apologize. I have taken it into online voting and I had 10 beautiful entries!! You can go to my website to vote HERE or vote to the right under Blog Stats—–> GOOD LUCK!!! FYI!!! I am going to be having this contest annually, I have decided. It will run to the same deadline for 2010  and I am going to swap out the images to pick from this coming weekend. I will also have an ent

Sugarloaf Show Photos
Alas, the weekend at Sugarloaf didn’t turn out as anyone had hoped, for the mere reason that there was no snow for any skiers to be there. Mother Nature failed us. LOL So now, I am busting my butt to get things online and of course, I had to start changing my website all around. That is going to take me a while, but I hope you will love the end result. It was approved by 3 people before I did it ( Mom, Robynne and Dave), so if you don’t like it, then it is their fault hahaha Here are some images from last weekend! I loved my table this show, all festive. I was super tired when we set up because I had been beading like a mad woman for 2 weeks preparing for the show.

Sugarloaf Show
This weekend at the King Pine Room, Saturday & Sunday 9/3 I have been beading my head off for this show and would like to share my accomplishments. This piece (below) I reinforced the fringe. It is an older piece that had been out of commission until I did that and also with the new camera, I was able to get a much nicer pic!

Calling All Contest Entries!
Haute Couture Contest Deadline TOMORROW!! In case anyone doesn’t know, I have a show this weekend that wasn’t planned when I made the contest. So if you need to sneak in a day or 2 more, feel free.  All entries in my email by first thing Monday morning will be the ones I accept.  Any submissions after that will not be accepted. I am scheming up another contest…with a longer deadline.  TBA!! I have a lot of new work to share, so be ready for an image heavy blog posting later today!