A great teaching lesson! Dolphin Parenting!

How To Eat Your Breakfast/Supper Like Pixie Does-A Mini Tutorial

There are 4 easy steps in this tutorial.




Step 1:
Take your food out of your dish and take it to one of your favorite beds in the house. (Yes, I did say ONE of your...)









Step 2: Lay down and eat your food leaving a trail of crumbs from the time you step into the living room until you reach one of your favorite beds.









Step 3: When you are caught by the pack leader (that's supposed to be me), maintain your innocence by hiding behind your expensive toy that also has food in it that you ignore, and lay down with an innocent look on your face.









Step 4: When your toy is moved out of the way, continue to hold the innocent look on your face and sigh. How could anyone be annoyed with that face? I have to admit it's hard to be annoyed, but someone has to vacuum!

So, How do you price your beads?

That's a question a posed on a forum that I frequent. How do you price your beads? The answers were quite interesting.

One person said that she felt that pricing beads was like religion and politics. Feathers might be ruffled. I honestly didn't understand that response.

Other responses were really quite helpful. One person said that she paid herself $1 a minute to make the bead or piece of jewelry that she was making. She said that after she made the beads she would sort through the beads and then reprice. Beads that weren't made as well as other were priced down.

Another person agreed with this and included in her pricing system the time she spent photographing and cleaning her beads. I felt that was very helpful, too.

Someone else said that she priced her beads at the level she felt comfortable selling them.

We also had a brief discussion about hobbyist versus professional. Most of us agreed we want to make enough money to pay for our glass and tools.

Now, I'm throwing this same question out to you professional bead makers. How do you price your beads? What criteria do you use?

For you who buy beads, what criteria do you use when you buy beads?

I'm still struggling with pricing my beads. Help!

I do it my way! Free tutorial!

Making frit that is!

For the non glass people reading this blog, frit is crushed glass that is rolled into a molten glass bead for the purposes of decoration, texture, or background. Most of the time I buy or trade for my frit, but some of my favorite blends have come from my lovely little nubs of glass.

Here's how I make my frit.


Always wear a mask. It's not good to inhale fine particles of glass.
That's my handy dandy frit maker. I purchased all the parts at Mutch Hardware.

Here are the pieces of it.


These are my glass nubs that I use. They really are nubs!
This is my frit sifter. I can sift the frit into different sizes. A friend sent this to me about 2 years ago, and I love it!
The nubs I've chosen for frit.
Now they are in my frit maker.
I begin to pound the glass.

Here's what comes out of the frit maker. I put it into the frit sorter and shake.
After shaking the frit sorter, here are my two favorite sizes of frit. I have some more pounding to do to finish the batch, but in the end, I will have enough frit for quite a few beads, and best of all, I was able to use my nubs--Again!