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Andrew, I am so sorry that your good news has been blighted by sniping from the conspiracy theorists - I've been on the receiving end of similar comments here in the UK from time to time and I know how hurtful this is. Thank you for taking the time to give such a calm and rational explanation of the facts. I hope the 'snipers' will be big
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Wishing you the very best with all of your new ventures, Leslie - I'm looking forward to seeing what you get up to! Hope you'll come by and say 'hi' on the forums every now and again, too!
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Thank you all for the kind words - the two pieces are now 'in transit' to their respective destinations and I am worrying like crazy until I hear that they've arrived safely!
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Thank You for the lovely welcome back, everyone - I didn't think anybody here would even remember me!
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I've tried Wildfire too but didn't really get on with it - the 'feel' was just too plasticky and stiff, it was much harder to thread a needle (especially a size 15 needle), and it still got sliced by crystal edges. Plus once you breach that plastic coating the thread underneath turns disastrously fluffy in moments! Maybe one day I'll
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I said for years that I didn't like them... until one day I cracked, bought a huge lot of 'destash' swarovskis and started making big and sparkly pieces... and now I am hooked and have a huge box of the things! The sparkle really IS more sparkly on a swarovski!
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...tip out the entire tube of expensive sterling-plated charlottes onto your beading tray and then trip while carrying it from one room to another...
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Beautiful piece - love the way the wirework is on a different 'level' so it doesn't distract from the clean shapes of the buttons!
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... thought I'd show you two extremes of my recent beadweaving efforts! This is 'Wrinkling', a semifinalist in this year's Ugly Necklace Contest organized by Land of Odds. This year the contest had a 'purple' theme and my piece (inspired by the Jenny Joseph poem 'Warning') is all about growing old beadily and disgracefully
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I started out selling at fairs, with variable success - then moved 'sideways' into selling patterns to magazines as my bigger and more expensive jewellery just didn't sell. Then a couple of years ago I had an operation and couldn't do fairs for a while, so opened an Etsy store just so that I had an outlet. For a while my bigger pieces