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

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$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.

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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

July 09 BluPrint the official Newsletter of Blue Morning Expressions

Volume 6 Issue 7 July 2009

What's New in July?

www.bluemorningexpressions.com is filling up slowly but surely. I am trying to at least put a couple items in the different categories so there is a small representative to what is to come. I know that there are a lot of categories that are still blank, but rest assured they will be filled!

I also have taken the time to get some new canes created. I did a couple kaleidoscope canes and one little white daisy for the fun of it. The kaleidoscopes are not in the store and one of them was used for a fund raiser necklace and earring set that I did. The other kaleidoscope's future is unknown at the moment.

Under Bead Kits, I now have two earring kits and one ladybug necklace kit. The ladybug comes with all the beads you need to create one necklace using my original ladybug polymer clay beads. The new earring kit consists of my cute little spiral tube beads and other goodies.

I am still juggling all the sites and keep moving from one to the other in no apparent order. I have a notebook full of new designs for www.x-stitch-patterns.com and am slowly but surely reworking loom patterns into peyote patterns for www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com. Both of those projects are scheduled to be done shortly. I also have some new earrings and designs ready for www.cliponearringsboutique.com.

Eyeglass Chain kits. I have the original one done and photos taken, I am now in the process of putting together my kits. I have all the main beads bagged and the findings together, but I am in the process of coordinating all the additional spacers and other goodies that will go in the kits. I have about a dozen of them about ready to go.

Charms and charm bracelets, please bear with me, I am working as fast as I can to get them completed and updated.

Waterslide decals. I have 20 designs up and thousands more to put together. I am working on cleaning up all my artwork from the last few years and putting these things together for use on polymer clay, candles, wood plaques and anything else you can think of to decorate.

I still have to put all the children’s jewelry up on the website, I have not even started that and I still have hundreds of earring designs that are not up yet.

I also am doing a lot of one of a kind buttons that I have spread out on my work bench right now and almost ready to upload. These are not made to order creations, they are one of a kind, when it’s gone, it’s gone type of buttons.


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

June 09 BluPrint the Newsletter of Blue Morning Expressions

What's New in June?


Blue Morning Expressions.com got a complete long overdue makeover!
I finally started to bring all of my items home to one place. Even though I
continueto sell in other venues like bonanzle, etsy and occasionally eBay, I
wanted to get everything in one place. I have accomplished the store set up
and I am slowly building and moving everything in. Currently I have several
categories completed and stocked with all the inventory that I have with many
more to go.

One of the most exciting factors in building this store is the ability to run
specials, sales and coupon codes any time I like and with this, I am able to
give my regular customers special pricing.

I continue to create as many new beads as I can and I have 10 fresh sets of
floral rounds that I just uploaded to Blue Morning Expressions.com and 3 of
them are already sold. I spent some time doing some custom cane work so
I didn't get a lot of bead sets done this month but look for more next month.
I have some fresh ideas/pieces that I will be including so look for some new
designs.

I will be doing a lot more new canes as well, I took a ton of photos at a local
nursery to use as basis for my new canes and will be incorporating them into
the standards. Some of my photography can also be found on Shutterstock.com.

Bead Kits are ready to be photo'ed. I am starting with a simple ladybug necklace
kit for the kids and I will go from there. I am discontinuing the completed items
and will be offering the kits. I don't have the time to create the sets any more, yet
they are still in demand so this is the happy medium.






www.TheSeedBeadPatternStore.com has been successful and the sales
bounce back and forth between the actual site, where you can find over 300
patterns, and eBay which is limited to some of my booklets. If you
want digital download and immediate gratification, go to the website
www.theseedbeadpatternstore.com and download your bead
patterns. eBay requires me to provide a cd so there is the extra charge
for that and shipping, whereas the website has no additional charge.

If you have any problems with the files, I am right here to help, just
drop me an email and I will fix it for you.

There are more peyote patterns just waiting for me to get uploaded
and there are animal prints and my Fourth of July series that I have not
finished yet, so watch for those. There also is a couple of complete series
of patterns that are going to be focusing on limited colour pallets, so watch
for them as well.

www.x-stitch-patterns.com will be updated soon to accomodate a lot of the
4x4 patterns that I have sitting here. I did a lot of small images that are
perfect for the motif cards that I will be adding.

All kinds of good and new things going on!!

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