BluPrint February 2010 Newsletter of Blue Morning Expressions

What's New in February?

Wow! January ended with a whoosh! I put all my loose beads on sale and I sold over 60 sets and they were flying out of here! Of course, now I am scrambling to create new sets for everyone. My tab bead supply is depleted and I only have a handful of my kaleidoscope pillow beads left. I will get more started as soon as I can.

I am working on some new canes as a special order and when they are done, they will be available for sale as well. I was asked to recreate the Plumeria flower in cane format as opposed to the bead format that you normally see. It’s on my workbench now.

I finished a huge piece that I was working on for a contest and here is the preview to that.

Title: The Year of the Tiger

Each of the round beads are created using a tiger skin cane over a base round bead. All of the individual dangles have been hand wire wrapped and the whole piece consists of tiger eye chips and red tiger eye 4mm beads. The Swarovski crystals are 4mm AB and the Jablonex Czech Topaz glass rounds are also 4mm.

Fans of clip on earrings for big girls will find www.cliponearringsboutique.com restocked with earrings just for them. I added 20 sets of dangles with Swarovski, glass pearls, Czech faceted rounds and lots of iridescent and sparkly things. Also added were one of a kind sets of millefiori glass hearts, diamonds and chicklet beads.





www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com and www.x-stitch-patterns.com are both still being worked on. It is behind the scenes so there should be no interruption of service. If there is, please let me know and I will get right on it. I had added a few new patterns. There was a call for buffalo in the seed bead pattern section so I have created a couple patterns there. Both in loom and in peyote.

I am getting ready to do my spring waterslide decals and will get those up shortly. They will be available in www.bluemorningexpressions.com waterslide decal section.

Spoonflower is now carrying one of my carousel horse designs on fabric. The black coloured pencil horse is now available on cotton or quilt square.

Watch for new beads featuring my decals and also watch for blank clay beads designed for your own decal creativity.

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all
the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,
Julie

January 2010 BluPrint Newsletter for Blue Morning Expressions

Volume 7 Issue 1 January 2010

What's New in January?

Let me start but wishing everyone success and prosperity in the new year. As we look forward, may we all be blessed with insight into what roads we should take to achieve our goals and our desires. May everyone be blessed with friends, family and be surrounded by kind people.

My year ahead looks wonderful as I plan for new adventures and the stretching of learning new techniques, designs and experiments. New pieces will be coming out in magazines and I must complete the book this year.
This set of beads became this completed set of jewelry which is in the process of being photo’d for a gallery piece in a magazine before finding it’s way to the showcase of my website for sale.

I still have one more set of tab beads in this design.

Titled piece HIGH DESERT


This watch/lanyard is in the February edition of Polymer Café.



As I clean out old inventory and start to create a lot of newer beads and raw clay canes, I will be putting things up for sale as often as possible. It is entirely possible that I will be offering them up at auction in ebay.

Watch for new beads featuring my decals and also watch for blank clay beads designed for your own decal creativity.

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all
the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,
Julie



















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December BluPrint - Official Newsletter of Blue Morning Expressions

What's New in December?

It is hard to believe that the end of the year is right upon us now and that Christmas is less than a month away. I have done none of my shopping and I have not made my own list and I have not gotten my bead stash out to create new pieces yet. BUT that is going to change!

I have a couple sets of tab beads that I am working on new designs with.
This set is on my work bench now and I am creating a full set using these beads and gemstones. They are slated for a necklace, bracelet and earring set. They will be up for photos before Christmas but before they end up on www.bluemorningexpressions.com, they are scheduled to be submitted to a magazine for showcasing. All goes well, maybe we will see them in a magazine for spring! In the meantime, there is a second set of these beads available for you to purchase to create your own spring ensemble. They are under the bead section in the tab/disk bead category on my website.

New beads are scheduled to be created and added in the next week or so. I am going to try and get some sets done that feature my waterslide decal images. They will be in the bead section.

This necklace set afforded me the title of showcase artist on the Beader’s Showcase website. I was extremely honored that they chose one of my pieces.


www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com and www.x-stitch-patterns.com are both slated for complete makeovers that hasn ot happened yet. There was an issue for awhile with the download site that I use to dispense the patterns upon purchase and I wanted to get that fixed before I continued with the revamping. For the moment, both sites are working but I am afraid I will need to postpone updating until after the first of the year.

I am busy getting more of my items up on www.bluemorningexpressions.com and the Christmas ornaments are up and ready for personalization.

Frog Potholder Magnets

Use the coupon code loyal on www.bluemorningexpressions.com for
30% off your entire order before shipping. Shipping on the site is a flat
$2.75 in case anyone wants to know. If you have ANY problem with the code, please let me know, I will fix it for you.

All new visitors to www.bluemorningexpressions.com receive a $5 Gift Certificate for signing up. Use it however you please!

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all
the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,
Julie

BluPrint Newsletter November 2009 Blue Morning Expressions

Volume 6 Issue 11 November 2009

What's New in November?

This piece is an example of one of my original waterslide decals on a handcrafted white polymer clay focal bead that has been beaded with Swarovski crystals and Czech round glass beads. The matching earrings have been wrapped to leverbacks. The piece is currently unavailable for sale as it is going to be submitted to a magazine.







This lanyard is the next one scheduled to be in Polymer Café magazine in the spring readers showcase.


I added a dozen or so tab beads to the website—one set I duplicated so that I can create a new bracelet with them. They feature my white floral cane on a black background.









www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com and www.x-stitch-patterns.com are both slated for complete makeovers that hasnot happened yet. There was an issue for awhile with the download site that I use to dispense the patterns upon purchase and I wanted to get that fixed before I continued with the revamping. For the moment, both sites are working but I am afraid I will need to postpone updating until after the first of the year.

I am busy getting more of my items up on www.bluemorningexpressions.com and the Christmas ornaments are up and ready for personalization.

Use the coupon code loyal on www.bluemorningexpressions.com for
30% off your entire order before shipping. Shipping on the site is a flat
$2.75 in case anyone wants to know. If you have ANY problem with the code, please let me know, I will fix it for you.

All new visitors to www.bluemorningexpressions.com receive a $5 Gift Certificate for signing up. Use it however you please!

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all
the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,
Julie

BluPrint Oct 09 Blue Morning Expressions Newsletter

Volume 6 Issue 10 October 2009

What's New in October?

Check out one of my necklaces in the Polymer Café magazine Black and White challenge! I have another lanyard/watch that will be in the magazine in an upcoming edition as well. Both of these pieces feature my geometry canes. One black and white and the other is a blend of red, white and pink. Both of the remaining raw canes are all sold out.

I have spent quite a bit of time working on new tab beads and managed to get several new sets created. About half of them sold out as soon as I uploaded them. I am trying to find time to get more created. I also want to do some more bead kits with them as the focal on earrings. I keep plugging along!

I added 20 new waterslide decal patterns to the site and I am working on creating the white blank beads to go with those. I have some pretty patterns that will make great earring kits.

I have been working on revising www.x-stitch-patterns.com and upgrading it to a shopping cart site with direct downloads as opposed to running it through payloadz. This way everything stays on site. I added a half a dozen more patterns to the card set. The www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com is the next to get the major upgrade in time for the holidays. I have had a problem with having enough time to get all these things done. I apologize for lagging behind.

Waterslide Decals! Christmas decals will be up soon and I will be adding the Halloween images as well for your holiday bead making. The tab beads will be going up as well. I am doing those in a white cernit for a smooth ceramic look.

www.bluemorningexpressions.com has Christmas ornaments up for your purchase now. I am happy to personalize these ornaments.

I also added a section where I showcase my pencil artwork. I can get a couple pencil portraits in before the holidays but I will need to know shortly. It takes me a bit of time to finish them so make sure you make plans now.

Use the coupon code loyal on www.bluemorningexpressions.com for
30% off your entire order before shipping. Shipping on the site is a flat
$2.75 in case anyone wants to know.

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all
the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,
Julie

September BluPrint Official Newsletter of Blue Morning Expressions

Volume 6 Issue 9 September 2009

What's New in September?

Thank you for making our birthday celebration a success!

A lot of folks took advantage of our 25% off storewide sale at www.bluemorningexpressions.com and got some great deals on new polymer clay beads.

I took some time and created a lot of new beads this month. I ended up with over 65 sets of new beads. Most of them were kaleidoscope cane pillow beads. I also have taken the time to create 10 or 15 new sets of floral tab beads that are perfect for bracelets and earrings. I have tried to size them right about 8-10mm in size. Keep an eye out for more of these as I get the time to create. I am working on clearing out all my raw canes so that I can add more canes more beads to the store.

I have been working on revising www.x-stitch-patterns.com and upgrading it to a shopping cart site with direct downloads as opposed to running it through payloadz. This way everything stays on site. I added a half a dozen more patterns to the card set. The www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com is the next to get the major upgrade in time for the holidays.

Waterslide Decals! Christmas decals will be up soon and I will be adding the Halloween images as well for your holiday bead making. The tab beads will be going up as well. I am doing those in a white cernit for a smooth ceramic look.

www.bluemorningexpressions.com has Christmas ornaments up for your purchase now. I am happy to personalize these ornaments.

I also added a section where I showcase my pencil artwork. I can get a couple pencil portraits in before the holidays but I will need to know shortly. It takes me a bit of time to finish them so make sure you make plans now.

Use the coupon code loyal on www.bluemorningexpressions.com for
30% off your entire order before shipping. Shipping on the site is a flat
$2.75 in case anyone wants to know.

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all
the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,
Julie

BluPrint August 09 The Newsletter of Blue Morning Expressions

Volume 6 Issue 8 August 2009

What's New in August?

It’s that time of the year again!
We are having a birthday!

In honor of our 5th birthday, we are having all kinds of great sales over in our www.bluemorningexpressions.com store. I will be putting everything in the store on sale for the ENTIRE month!! Just remember though that many of our items are one of a kind and when they are gone, they are gone and will never be repeated again. I am in the process of making a lot of design changes this year and retiring many of my previous designs so if you see something that you like, be sure and snag it now.

I have 12 new bead kits on the site, most are for eyeglass leashes but I also added two new earring kits and one ladybug necklace kit. All feature my own unique beads so rest assured, you will not be getting a mass produced kit of beads that can be found just anywhere.


I took two weeks off to go and wander about the upper northwest of our beautiful country and came back refreshed, inspired and thankful for all the magnificent vistas that we are blessed to call home to. I took hundreds of photos and was inspired by new pallets that I don’t normally see everyday.

Once you have gazed at the spectrum of colours radiating from the depths of the earth in Yellowstone or the stark beauty of the desert colours dashing across the landscape, you come away with a new pantone sample to create from. Photos will be posted on my website when I get a chance.

But back to work!

Waterslide Decals! I got 20 new sheets of designs up on the website, I used one for a heart that I did as an example. I was so happy with it that I intend to create a whole set of beads. I did make an error in the sizing of the decals so they are a bit too large for the moment but I will correct that soon.



www.bluemorningexpressions.com is very close to being complete. I have added a discontinued category for my old designs. Most of those are under $3.00. I also have been working on free instructions—I just am not getting as much done on those as I would like. I don’t sit down to write like I used to.

In my running around, I regrettably have neglected my other duties to my other sites so I need to focus on those sites here in the next few weeks. That means that new patterns on www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com and www.x-stitch-patterns.com have been set aside for a few and it also means that www.cliponearringsboutique.com has not been updated as promised. I will take care of those things very soon.

Use the coupon code loyal on www.bluemorningexpressions.com for
30% off your entire order before shipping. Shipping on the site is a flat
$2.75 in case anyone wants to know.

Thank you so much for all the input and emails. I enjoy all
the encouragement that you send my way.

Until next month,
Julie