Flower Bracelet

Swarovski Crystal necklace

Beaded Mango Parfait

Snoopy Bento

Creating

Preparing crystals in settings for my next project. 

Jewels

My latest creation made sitting in a camping  chair under a tent in the rain.  Yes, I  can  literally bead anywhere. 

FUKUBUKURO

 My friend bought me two beautiful cosmetic fukubukuro on her last trip to Japan.

 Natural Glace is not a brand I have heard of before.

 The second bag is Coffret D'or which is my favourite Japanese cosmetics brand.

I love all the products in these bags!

KYOTO NECKLACE

 My latest beading creation.

Pearls and Stardust

My latest creation.

Sydney Trip

I recently spent a week in Sydney with my daughter. Here's my shopping haul.

 Fabric from Marimekko, which I will turn into cushion covers.

 Uniqlo, which is a recent opening in Australia.

 Kinokuniya, my favourite store. I think I went there almost everyday.

My daughter hopes to go on a study tour to New York for uni, so she's reading up on all the places to visit during free time there.

 Forever 21 - also new to Australia.

 H & M. I really like this store for cheap clothing.

I'm a terrible photographer!

BEADS MANIA FUKUBUKURO

After years of trying to get one, I finally bought the coveted Beads Mania fukubukuro. A fukubukuro, is a "grab bag" of products a store wishes to sell quickly at a discounted price. They generally go on sale on New Years Day. Some stores in Japan have great long queues of customers hoping to snag a fukubukuro on January 1st.  Beads Mania is only and online store, and they have limited numbers of the fukubukuros, so I was lucky to get one. The bag I got also came with a miniature tea set.

Yes, I am nuts getting all excited over some bead kits, but that's my escape from the stressful world of type 1 diabetes that I live in.

Looking forward to making these cuties soon.

PANSY NECKLACE

 

This took me two years to finish for various reasons. Happy it's done now!

KIWA ONLINE SHOPPING

My latest order from Kiwa, my favourite store on the planet. It's a beaders paradise. Luckily for me they have an online store. I can't wait to get started on my many planned projects.

If you want to buy online, you will need to use a forwarding service, as they online ship within Japan.  I use Tenso.

Kiwa Online Store

Little Panda

Paper Flowers