Home from a lovely break in Costa Rica in time to start preparations for the San Diego Bead Society Bead Bazaar show next weekend! There's even a discount coupon for admission here . If you'...
Follow my blog with Bloglovin I'm set up on Bloglovin' so those of you who use Google Reader still have a way to follow :) Kind of handy, there's an app and you can have a list of new posts ...
So you many remember my post waaaay back where I told you all about the pupper that we thought we'd be adding to our family then found out he was already promised to another adopter? Well, it'...
I was recently contacted by a representative from UncommonGoods , an online retailer that offers creatively designed, high-quality merchandise. If you haven't been to their website before, ...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/06/uncommongoods-jewelry-design-challenge.html
Well, I might not be there, but Chris from The Art of the Bead (previously Foremost Focals) is at Bead and Button in Milwaukee, WI this weekend for the Bead and Button Show. She's set up at boo...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/06/bead-and-button.html
I may have been a bad blogger lately but at least I managed to get my twistie beads out in the mail to my lovely blog partner participants with plenty of creation time before the big reveal! Th...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/05/twistie-bead-reveal.html
I feel like this is a recurring theme where I come back after a month plus of no blogging and make a comment about how long it's been since my last post... What this means for you is a hodgepodge...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/04/back-with-bang.html
Well, I'm back from my three days at "The Tucson Bead Show" and it was an experience, although not what I'd call a profitable experience, it was a pleasant one overall. I liked the way my table...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/02/home-from-tucson.html
In an attempt to rejoin society today I figured that I would at least get a post up in between coughing fits... Unfortunately I'm starting off the new year with a heck of an upper respiratory bug...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2013/01/cold-weather-cold-bugs.html
Yes, I am. Older that is, at least in comparison to last week...I had a lovely week of birthday with little gifts from the hubster each day leading up to Thursday. To top it all off, I saw ...
Where is time going? I can't believe we're already creeping up on Christmas (which means my birthday week is almost here too!) and I feel woefully unprepared. Add on top of that the looming d...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/12/random-running-related-ruminations.html
I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Have you gone out to brave post turkey shopping crowds or been like me and just hunkered down at home? We spent a lovely few days in Napa and Sonoma l...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/11/hibernating-or-shopping.html
In preparation for Cyber Monday I'm giving my faithful blog readers a jump on my big sale! I'll be participating in the Love My Art Jewelry Art Bead sale on Monday the 26th (also my niece Madis...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/11/super-sneaky-sale.html
My friend Katrina has been in a whirlwind of knitting and crocheting the past week! I sent her some buttons in a care package to play with and she promptly went to work stitching up a storm to ...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/10/knitty-goodness.html
This time around #14 was the lucky number and Genea has a whole chain of art bead loveliness headed her way! Congrats Genea, can't wait to see what you take and add!
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/10/winner-winner.html
I've been driving all over Southern California for the past two days so I didn't have access to my computer until now to post the photos that Alice and Lisa sent me while I was on the road of t...
A few weeks ago I brushed the dust off my list of blog partners , asked who's still up for the fun, and drew a few names...I found three willing participants in Alice , Lucid Moon Studio and Cop...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/10/blog-partner-reveal.html
So after ever so carefully going through the Art Bead Love chain (a gazillion times!), I've made my selections and additions and it's ready for you to have a shot at it!! Here's what it looke...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-art-bead-love-tour-giveaway-time.html
How excited was I to learn that I was chosen as the recipient of the Art Bead Love Tour this go around?! This is what it looked like when it started the tour... This great chain was start...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/10/art-bead-love-tour.html
I'm clearing out a bunch of my Mykonos Greek metal and ceramic beads. I'm posting as many as I can on my Facebook page in the next hour then will finish up this evening. I'd prefer to clear ...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/10/big-destash-on-now.html
Glad to see that a few blog partners are up for the challenge! The Random Number Generator selected comments # 3, 6,and 1 so that means that Alice , Lucid Moon Studio and CopperDiem will b...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/blog-partner-goodies.html
So I've sadly neglected my blog partner program over the summer...it seemed as though people were super busy with challenges and other blog partner endeavors and I didn't want to overload my part...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/09/any-blog-partners-still-out-there.html
It's been waaaaay too hot to fire the kiln this week so I've been trying to just keep working on pieces to pack into the firing when it finally cools off! Excessive heat isn't usually something...
Last weekend was warm and beautiful but not crazy hot so we took the afternoon to head to Torrey Pines State Reserve , a cliff side network of trails that lead to a lovely little section of beach...
http://chinookdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/08/beaches-and-mugs.html
You may recall way back when I said I was refinishing my kitchen cabinets that I would show off the finished product once it was done... Turns out that I opened a bit of a can of worms by start...