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shiny little things
http://www.shinylittlethings.blogspot.com
A bead store owner's blog that mixes crafting ideas, small business ownership stories and fun links. Projects from beading to metal crafting to felting to sewing.
Recent Posts
Buggy Staff Challenge
We do a monthly Staff Challenge here at the stores. We have secret ingredients or sometimes a theme and the staff members all compete to see who can come up with the best project. This month we had a box of some of our new brass bugs and each person ...
Keep \'em busy! Family Crafts for Thanksgiving Day
Do you have family that you dearly love but would rather not spend too much time talking with? You know, the Aunty who likes to ask you if you have gained 12 or is it 15 pounds since she last saw you? That Uncle who always feels compelled to share th...
Thrifty&Swifty Gifties part 2
Do you know any knitters? I do, and I am always impressed by the way they whip out a knitting project anytime, anywhere. Beading and jewelry making may not seem as portable but they can be if you have a neat wrap to put your project and the needed to...
Mincing Mockingbird and Frantic Meerkat Steal A Car, news at 11
This photo shows Kim of the Frantic Meerkat, the mysterious Mincing Mockingbird and me at the Stationary Show last year. The Humanized Animals (as we call them but not to their faces) are two artists or maybe writers who create paintings, collages an...
What will you accomplish before you turn 50?
What are you going to do before you turn 50? Run a marathon? Climb Denali? Swim with dolphins? Learn to surf? Christy from Colorado was in the store last week. She is on a quest to visit all 50 states before she turns 50. I know from this picture it ...
Escazu is expanding
Which means more chocolate for me, right?Go read the story...mmm...I think am getting a cup of chocolate right now at their convenient Glenwood Ave. shop. I am sorry to have it go, but I understand that they have to focus on their new space.Chocolati...
