Minimalist and Spring

Volume 13 Issue 3, March 2016

What's New in March?

Spring is right around the corner, and I am working on flowers both inside my studio and outside in the garden. Last year, I planted a lot of day lilies that are maturing and hopefully, will bloom this year. My amaryllis is down to one leaf, but it will soon start sprouting more. My milkweed has multiplied from one plant that is now dead to seven smaller plants that should start to bloom soon. The butterflies will love that. Honeysuckle is blooming and the bottle brush is starting to bud.

All of these flowers make me want to  start working on making more canes and beads. I have gotten a few things done, but most of this year has been spent working on other projects that needed to be done. Like rebuilding the website again and splitting out my beads from the rest of my site. I am doing a little reorganization here.  A little spring cleaning.

In the meantime, I have concentrated on working with minimalist styles.   

More Beads: Cabochons, loose beads, pill beads and more tube beads are all on the list of things to do this month.

Prints and Posters: I have been working on compiling art and photos to  have printed as posters, cards and other prints. They will soon be available on my website.

Potholder Magnets: New designs and an expansion on some of my tried and true best sellers are in the works.

You will find all of my beads, canes and finished jewelry on my website. www.bluemorningexpressions.com

Until next month,

Julie & Blu

Things to Look Forward To:

New Products:

Watches: There are new watches in my shop. I went a little Southwestern with beads and charms.

Thimbles: I am working on getting some new thimbles created. I am completely sold out.

Hotrod magnets: I am adding hotrod magnets to my shops, and since I only have one finished, I will have to show them off next month.

Cowgirls and Purple Flowers

Volume 13 Issue 2, February 2016

 What's New in February?

Wow. We are already into February 2016. The way that time is flying, I might need to start my Christmas shopping soon. In the meantime, I have been doing a lot of reorganizing of the websites, my studio, my supplies and just general clean up. There are a few new beads that are ready for sale, but there are also projects on the table that are going to be part of my latest magazine article about some cutters I found. They are created through the art of 3-D printing, and they are seamless, which makes them a great tool for those of us who play in polymer.

While the new beads are in construction, here are a few of the newest sets that I just posted. Half are already sold, so grab what is left soon. They are only in my Etsy shop at this point.

Handmade loose beads 

Polymer clay beads for sale

More Beads: All but one of my latest cabochons sold out, so I have to make some more as soon as I can. 

Coffee Mugs: My hotrod series of art prints are now on coffee mugs. I tried to get them together in time for your holiday shopping. We are now on Amazon Handmade, so things are getting changed up a bit as we settle in.

Earrings: I finished a couple pairs of new earrings featuring polymer clay beads.

You will find all of my beads, canes and finished jewelry on my website. www.bluemorningexpressions.com

Until next month,

Julie & Blu

Polymer clay beads 

Things to Look Forward To:

New Products:

Watches: There are new watches in my shop. I went a little Southwestern with beads and charms.

Thimbles: I am working on getting some new thimbles created. I am completely sold out.

Hotrod magnets: I am adding hotrod magnets to my shops, and since I only have one finished, I will have to show them off next month.

2016 Starts with New Beads

Just a quickie post to showcase some of the new things in my Etsy shop.

One pair of heart earrings and three bead sets



Playing with techniques, finishes and creating my own faux lampwork disc beads. There will be more on these next month as I get some more finished.

October 2011 BluPrint Official Newsletter of Blue Morning Expressions

Volume 8 Issue 10, October 2011

What's New in October?

Artfire—In an effort to conserve space, accommodate my regular customers and to take advantage of a great handmade site, I have consolidated all my websites into one at Artfire. All of my other sites are still updated and used, you can still access your customer information and your order history, I am just using Artfire to save space and make it convenient for my customers. You will find Blue Morning Expressions, X-Stitch-Patterns, The Seed Bead Pattern Store, and Clipon Earrings Boutique. If you are interested, you can find me at http://www.artfire.com/users/bluemorningexpressions

Writing—I have spent the last month writing full-time and I must confess, I have sorely neglected all my canes and polymer clay items. I did over 250 web articles and one feature article for a local newsmagazine. All of these things were fun to do, but very time consuming and my clay suffered. I had quite a few sales of canes and over half of my inventory went out in boxes this last month. That is good for clearing space for me, but bad for providing a great selection of canes for you!

Kaleidoscope Canes -I started to do my canes that I had drawn out and ran into problems with my clay being too soft to work with. I put it out to leach some of the moisture out of the clay and got busy doing other things. This made the clay unsuitable for the project I had in mind, so I have to start over. This would not be a problem, except that one of my canes was specific to Halloween and featured candy corn. Oh well, off to work on new designs.

Beads—I am working on new focal beads and doing a few necklaces with the penguins that I did last year for Christmas. I have six focal beads ready to go and will get those necklaces done soon. The next sets of focal beads will be ready in the next couple of weeks. You can find both the beads and the finished necklaces on www.bluemorningexpressions.com or at my Artfire store http://www.artfire.com/users/bluemorningexpressions

As always, thank you for all your support and emails.

www.bluemorningexpressions.com

Until next month,

Julie & Blu

New Products:

Earrings—These are all created from my bead sets, I used both floral rounds, heart swirl lentils, and full size 20mm pillow beads to create 30 new sets of earrings. Each set is under $4—I wanted to create an affordable set of earrings for gifts that can be easily purchased in groups. The only sets not under $4 are the dangle heart swirls, those are under $10.

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Orange Green Miami Hurricane Colors Beaded Charm Bracelet

Orange Green Miami Hurricane Colors Beaded Charm Bracelet

Perfect for your University of Miami fan!

This bracelet titled "Peas and Carrots" is lush with my own creations.

This heavily beaded charm bracelet has been hand created from polymer clay beads, lentil beads, Swarovski crystals, seed beads, Czech glass beads and gold plated findings.

The beads have all been created from artist quality polymer clay and have been hand formed into either 10mm round beads, 10 mm disk beads, 15mm flower beads, 15mm heart lentil beads, 10mm round lentil beads, and smaller disks. Each bead has been accented with gold plated bead caps and spacer beads, as well as delica seed beads and ebeads.

Each bead has been lightly varnished to give it shine.

Additional beads include gold plated filigree 6mm beads.

This bracelet is 6 inches with a gold plated toggle and can be re-sized if needed.

This one of a kind bracelet will not be repeated, even though it was great fun to create the beads for and put together.

Want other school colors? Just ask, I might be able to create something along the same line.

September BluPrint Newsletter Blue Morning Expressions

What's New in September?

Earring Pairs have been something that I have putting off for a long time now. I am happy to inform you that I have created over 50 pairs and most are under $2.50.

I had a blast making these and for some reason I just couldn't stop!

I stocked up on a ton of Premo! Clay while it was on sale and I have to admit that I will be using this for a long time. :) I can never have too much clay.

I have been really busy lately with designing websites and writing articles for the local paper, that my bead time has been a little lacking. I am trying to do at least 20 new sets a month using all my latest canework.

I will start the fall colours and get the new lentils out. I created this necklace from a set of lentils that I couldn't bear to part with.

Lots more beads on the workbench and I have had the chance to create some jewelry pieces for a change. I forgot how much fun it was to design and string new bracelets and necklaces. I took a few to the office and sold out immediately. Now, I am working on redoing the designs. Selling out is NOT a bad thing!

I will be creating many more lentil flower beads and round floral beads. There are also kaleidoscope canes that I have in the works for my latest rounds of pillow beads.

The new beads are available on www.bluemorningexpressions.com now.

www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com has been updated and all the bracelet patterns are up. I have a couple of the tapestries up but have not finished all of those yet. I added a few more wolf patterns and I have added a free pattern section. I will be putting up free patterns on the site.

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.

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

Until next month,

Julie

May 2010 BluPrint Newsletter for Blue Morning Expressions

Volume 7 Issue 5 May 2010 What's New in May?

Busy!

New canes are in the making—I have to completely replenish my kaleidoscope cane collection for my pillow beads since I have exhausted a very extensive selection. I did two new ones that are sold but got the creative juices going for the 4th of July! I will work on new beads for the sparkly holiday.

It is GOOD to fall back in love with the polymer clay medium. I am not sure how many of these canes I will make but there will be more colour schemes than just the 4th of July.

My tab and floral rounds need to be replenished as well, I created some new flower canes that I want to try out on the tabs and I want to get some of my beads strung on completed projects.



New white tab bead/discs are available for the waterslide decals now. I have shown a few of my favourite designs and will be stringing these beads on some elaborate necklaces.

The whole point of these blanks is to give you a choice of the bead and the decal without having to purchase the whole decal sheet.





I finished one lampwork beaded necklace and have over 12 more to go. I have a large collection of focal beads that I have found along the way over the last couple of years and I am in the process of finally completing those. I just LOVE the way the seed beads drape and I totally fascinated by fringe!



New earring and necklace sets were added using some of my other lampwork beads and now I only have one set left. That didn’t last long! I still have a few more sets of matching beads that I will put sets together from.


They are available on www.bluemorningexpressions.com now.

www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com has been updated and all the bracelet patterns are up. I have a couple of the tapestries up but have not finished all of those yet. I added a few more wolf patterns and I have added a free pattern section. I will be putting up free patterns on the site.

If you have purchased bracelet patterns from me in the past and did not receive the 10 colour and under updates, please let me know and I will get those to you. I have updated the patterns to make it easier on everyone.

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.

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

Until next month,
Julie

What's New in April?

Lots of projects coming together. I have been preparing for a large bead contest and that has kept me busy completing projects and designing new ones. I have one more piece to finish and then I am done for 2010. This is my first entry into the Beadstar contest, so we will see what happens!

I have been busy trying to replenish my bead stash, they sell out faster than I can make them sometimes. I put together a couple fairly good sized kaleidoscope canes and put them up for sale. I sold one right away and still have one in stock.

I re-opened my ebay store, they were making some changes to the stores so I thought I would open back up for a couple months and see what happens. It has been over 2 years since I closed the store! Time sure flies.

I did manage to create 26 sets of new beads this month, I have about half of those still available. I stocked back up on the floral rounds and I did 7 sets of larger tab beads (more of a quarter size than a dime) which are perfect for lanyards and such. I will try and get a couple lanyards or bracelets for sale.

Colorful, aren’t they?


www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com has been updated and all the bracelet patterns are up. I have a couple of the tapestries up but have not finished all of those yet. I added a few more wolf patterns and I have added a free pattern section. I will be putting up free patterns on the site.

If you have purchased bracelet patterns from me in the past and did not receive the 10 colour and under updates, please let me know and I will get those to you. I have updated the patterns to make it easier on everyone.

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.x-stitch-patterns.com is still being worked on. It is behind the scenes so there should be no interruption of service.

My spring waterslide decals are now up. I added over 100 new patterns in the waterslide decal section on www.bluemorningexpressions.com

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

For an example of my waterslide on a cab, see my polymer clay canes and beads blog.

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

Until next month,
Julie