New Work Facebook group sale before it goes public! 3 days only!

Hello beautiful souls!

Not local? Not to worry! We are doing a NEW WORK facebook sale in our facebook group before it hits the public. You can join our group here and get that shopping in before they are all gone! We have lots of amazing beachy beads and ocean in a drop headpins left! I know you all were swooning over them and now's your chance! Here is a video clip of our booth so you can see everything we have. Don't see it listed in the group? Ask and I can get a listing made for you!  I just posted and the beads are already selling, so don't wait!

Love, light, and creativity, 

xoxo Genea

Do you First Friday? Come see us at Bead Boutique Kansas City from 5-8pm tomorrow!

Hello beautiful souls,

Are you ready?!  TGIF! Come on over and see us at Bead Boutique in Kansas City, MO from 5-8pm TOMORROW and get your bead on! We have been busily creating this pile of loot for your every design need! Here you can see the entire display. I will be restocking more sari silk and wooly wire(be sure to check out Nellie's current stock of wooly wire on her Etsy) for the show(not all pictured)! Don't forget your sweet hearts whomever they may be. Ladies and gents alike love to be showered with affections in the form of gifts. Make some jewelry for you and your tribe to show them you care. 

Did you love our "glass dabs" headpins?! We think they are such a fluid component to make so many designs. As you can see I have created a few simple pendants using the headpins like the heart, and swirl wave pendants. Infact I loved the swirl wave designs so much, I made one for our entire tribe of friends in their favorite colors(pictured above). Want to learn how to make your own? I will be at the event showing off how to create them(just ask). 

 I've even created some simple designs with our new beach beads and even added in a few of the beads I used tied into the sets! OMG did you see those BUBBLES?! Yep, there they are trapped inside the glass like a little ocean :D

Check out these simple beachy earrings. They are super light and a perfect compliment to our simple beachy necklace.

You are the WHOLE ocean in a drop glass headpins! If you can't get to the ocean, bring the ocean to you! OMG! Aren't they so pretty?! There is just something so calming and peaceful about them. These beads and headpins are BRAND SPANKIN' NEW and NO ONE has laid a finger on them yet, except for me! So be the first to get a hold of the ocean in your hands.

See you tomorrow!

Love, light, and creativity,

xoxo Genea

Find us here:

www.geneabeads.com

www.geneabeads.blogspot.com

www.thirdeyegypsys.etsy.com

Hearts, Hearts, Hearts, and Love.

Hello friends!

I had an impromptu listing go on today. I did this for a few reasons... 1. I got a great response on the photo I posted of my first run of Valentine's Day hearts 2. It is my 7 year wedding anniversary(so it seemed fitting) 3. Valentine's Day is JUST around the corner ALREADY(can you believe it?!).

So without further adieu, here are my lovelies!

"Ammonite Jewel Tribe" -OMG.. pretty sure this is my FAVORITE heart! I love how tribal it is and the rainbow ammonite and jewel dots! Wow! :Love the pointy wings too!

"Ocean Serpent Egg" Heart- So if you loved the "Ocean Serpent Egg" design in red, you will LOVE this heart! I tried out this design on a heart for one of Karen's xmas presents :D I know you all LOVE red even though I hate it so I went ahead and made one for ya ;P

"Electric Lime" Spiral Earth Stone Heart- If you loved the "Electric Lime" Earth Stone beads, you will LOVE this heart! I thought it would be awesome to make a matching heart focal and I was right! :D

"Storm Cloud Silver Lining" heart.  So this design was inspired by another design I made for *someone's* gift(she hasn't seen it yet) except I used a gorgeous charcoal gray base instead. I love how this heart turned out, stormy witha silver lining :D

Well I hope you enjoyed my first run of hearts. I hope to make more this week :D

See you soon!

xo Genea

"Sea Horse" Hearts! My newest and most incredible feat in glass to date!

Hello friends!

Ok well I guess it's time to tell you what I've been up to. I hate to spoil the surprise after just making one bead or post in text what I will be working on. It tends to bite me in the butt, so I have been keeping things a secret. I had wondered if I should tell you now or wait to show you a whole collection of beads. I have had a few people asking and I can't keep exciting secrets to save my life! 

So here's the story. As you may have read a few days ago I freaked out. I had been doing a run of weeny dings and had all these plans to stock up my shop full of wing dings and weeny dings. I had  a few other projects on my list too. I kept trying to push on trying to re-stock, but I just couldn't. Beads weren't turning out. I was bumming because I kept seeing people post new work. I wanted to make ideas I had had in my head forever. Finally I panicked and stopped EVERYTHING. If I didn't stop what I was doing an "artist's funk" was surely in store for me. If you have never experienced one be glad. Sometimes this crappy uninspired feeling will last for MONTHS. Ugh... totally don't need that after my kiln being down for 2 weeks and then me being sick.  

So I just said F* IT and did what I wanted to. I had tried a few little tests to see if my idea was even possible. So here it goes...

So as you may know, I am totally in love with MAKU's hearts and Staci's.

MAKU hearts.

Staci's hearts, which were inspired by MAKU's hearts :D

Ok so the first step was to see if my glass idea would work. Here were some simple tests to find out. 

Here were some quick doodles for ideas. Originally I had wanted to make some glass enameled pins, but upon thinking about this idea it would be much easier to just put a blob of glass on the wire. So how could I take the inspiration I had, translate it into glass and make it my style?

So I laid out my arsenal of elements to give this idea a whirl.

I created the FIRST two "Sea Horse" hearts! OMG Look! It worked! Not only did it work, but look how AMAZING they are! 

Here is a shot of the dots on the wire. They have a trapped air bubble of course since I just LOVE to add that element. It was one of my favorite things I learned when I was first making beads :D

So after this SUCCESS surely I needed to make more!  So off to work I went....

Now what colors to use??? Hmmmm well Dark Ivory is always  a MUST, but which other colors? I asked Ricky and my sweet, sweet husband replies, "What about Red Roof Tile"? I love it when my hubby speaks glass to me. I guess that happens after 9 years of bead making and 5 years of being married ;) What a great idea! 

Oooooo AMAZING!

My palms were sweating and my heart was RACING.. 

Ooooo so awesome!

Gotta keep going...

Now for another of my very FAVORITE COLORS(and seems to be everyone elses too), Stone Ground! OH.... MY.... GOD... Look at how GORGEOUS this is!

WHOA... Just look at that COLOR. 

BUT..... with all great things comes CRISIS. The most DREADED sound ever to hear while you are lampworking. All lampworkers ears are fine tuned to this one little particular sound. When you hear a little *tink* while you are working that is BAD. That is the sound of glass cracking. So I did hear it a few times as I worked, but thought surely it must be the little dots of glass on the metal pins, right?  WRONG.... Dead WRONG. So where were those cracks?

At the bottom cone part of the heart! *dies* :'( I can only make about 3 hearts in one sitting. They are pretty intense as soon as I create the fin and add on the little "antenae". So surely those would be the delicate things, right? Nope, it's the cone. So why is it that this is happening? 

So lets take a look. If you notice. You will see that the glass is the thinnest at the cone's base. The rest of the heart is super thick with a lot of mass. So as I was neglecting the bottom of the heart so worried about my "sticky outies," it was therein that laid the problem. 

I was HEART BROKEN... literally and metaphorically. The one in the picture above was my FAVORITE.. I might even say it was my "Preciousssssssssssss". 

I mean, LOOK at it... Oh *sigh* such a bummer :(

So dismayed and disbeliefed at 

 this horror I HAD to try again. I am a very determined person, so this was NOT going to stop me. I would just try harder and remember to really make sure to give the bottom of the heart some good heat inbetween keeping everything else warm.

Here is the entire run of "Sea Horse" hearts I created :D Aren't they amazing?! As you can see I had better success my second time around! Thank God! 

 Here you can get an idea of the size of the hearts. So you can expect to see these GORGEOUS beads in the shop later this week!

I am really digging this theme so I have created even more amazing beads today! I hope to make a lot more this week.

You can expect to see these AMAZING hearts in the shop this week! 

See you soon!

Thanks for stopping by!

xo Genea