Beaded Colorways has arrived!

Surrounded by books and beads, Joie and I toasted to a milestone (with a great Whidbey Island wine), then I grabbed a pen and started signing!

The first armfuls will go to the post office late tonight!

Beads, fibers, sunsets

A day full of color makes me happy!

Beaded Colorways Countdown!

Beaded Colorways will be released in just days!

I can hardly wait to receive the first cartons of books from my publisher, then sign and send them off to all of you! Thank you so much for such an overwhelming response and all of your wonderful words of encouragement now and throughout the entire process. I can't believe that almost 2 years of planning, writing, creating, photographing, color wheels, beads, bead soups... is all wrapped up in this book!

Thank you North Light Books for pulling it all together - I think it is gorgeous!!

By the way - there is still time to enter your name to win this:

Preorder Beaded Colorways from my website prior to December 21, 2009 and your name will be entered to win the following colorful package:

10 colorways from my Bead Soup Collection
10 colorways from my Seed Bead Medley
5 colorways from my Fiber Bouquets
5 pieces of colorized metal
EYE FOR COLOR
(a $400 value)

I expect to receive cartons of books around December 21 and will send them off to you as soon as I can sign and package them. With holiday shipping craziness, I'm not sure how long it will take to get to you though... all the flying reindeer are busy!

P.S. To my dear blog friends - so sorry I haven't visited in awhile. I miss your lovely blogs! Things have been crazy around here and I look forward to sitting down with a good cup of coffee and reading all that you have been up to in the last few weeks!

And the winner is...

Congratulations to Dot (flyingbeader)
for winning the Color Give-Away!

Please let me know where to send your package and which colorways you would like for your Bead Soup Collection, Seed Bead Medley and Fiber Bouquet!

To all of my blog friends... I have been away over the last week - missing reading all of your delightful blogs. Will explain where I was next time!

Recipe for a Give-Away!

Color is brewing in my studio and the scent of 'Give-Away' is wafting through the air!

Here is a recipe for COLOR from my house to yours (read on for Give-Away details!):

Pour beads into large pot and stir. As the fire burns and cauldron bubbles... the new Seed Bead Medley line is up and running - a perfect complement to the projects in my upcoming book: BEADED COLORWAYS (but more on that, and how to enter to win a really cool Color Package, coming soon!).

Samples from Seed Bead Medley
[Harvest, Tropical Punch, Velvet Cloak, Antique Copper, Mossy Rock, Red Clay, Silver Sand, Tropical Surf, Golden Raspberry]

Add a dash of spice and new colorways simmer in my Bead Soup Collection.

New soups shown in Mossy Rock and Spring Rain

Stir in even more color and bring to a boil. My new Fiber Bouquets will be ready to enjoy in time for Wander with Flair at Studio Beads (wouldn't they also be fun with fabric and photos in Wander Through Photos at Beads by Blanche?!). How could I stop at beads? These fiber bundles include 15 - 20 strands of delectable color, hand mixed to coordinate with, yes of course, my Bead Soup Collection.

Fiber Bouquet shown in Harvest

You are invited over for a taste of color (I may even put you to work stirring!). Simply...

Enter a comment
and one special reader will win a COLOR package

(1 each from the Bead Soup Collection, Seed Bead Medley and Fiber Bouquets)

Sample shown in:
Cardamom Fiber Bouquet and Bead Soup Collection, Copper Penny Seed Bead Medley

Serve and enjoy with a beadweaving project (Instructions now available on-line).

The drawing will be next Sunday, November 1 - hope to see you!