3rd Giveaway Winner and Thank you!

The winner of the 3rd giveaway is Cindy! (Lovely name if I do say so myself! LOL!) Cindy, send me an email to cindygimbrone@yahoo.com and I'll send you the hearts along with the silverlake beads! An email will serve as a nice reminder so I don't forget!

Thank you so much for coming to the sale. I appreciate comments and purchases! The sale continues until 7pm. I'll be lowering the prices so you may want to take one last look before you shut off the computer!

Here I am signing "THANK YOU" in American Sign Language!

Shhhh! A secret I'm only sharing with you!

If you're reading the blog today - thank you! And to put my money where my mouth is, as of 4pm EST, I'm LOWERING the prices on all of the clearance items! From 4-7pm EST, each item will be rock bottom. Geez I'm beginning to sound like one of the tv guys hawking cars! But I really don't want these beads hanging around here anymore.

After 7pm EST today - they're gone gone gone!

So go take a look after 4pm EST - it's gonna feel like stealing! (but you won't be :-)

More! Pendants just listed

I've just put these up on the clearance page. These are pendants sized beads.

Winner of 2nd giveaway and 3rd Giveaway

Lori Anderson!
Send me an email, Lori at cindygimbrone@yahoo.com and I'll send out your resin cabs!

Giveaway #3 is in honor of Valentine's Day - a set of hearts. The white heart has dichroic glass encased in it and is decorated with 23K gold.




Give me feedback on the clearance/seconds sale - should I hold it once or twice a year? Leave me feedback and you'll be entered to win the hearts!

I Tried Candy

I'm putting up a set of prototype beads inspired by the movie Marie Antoinette. Watch the excerpt below to see the food - the strawberry desserts look divine!



Inspired, I set about to make some cute cupcakes and little bears in cupcakes. I made a few and then never went any further. So I'm offering them up on the Clearance page for a song! (arr arr - get it? a song!

Added two more items and more to come....

I added Earth Spirals and Sunkissed at about 2:15 EST. I'm going to put up a few more. Want to make sure you have a good selection of beads to choose from!

Giveaway 1 winner and Giveaway 2 for mixed media

People must be out enjoying the sun or doing their regular Saturday errands which means all the more for Emanda who wins the first giveaway! YAY! More for Emanda! Send me an email at cindygimbrone@yahoo.com Emanda so I can send you the beads!



Not to ignore my mixed media, stamping colleagues - my next giveaway is a very large set of resin watch parts cabochons made by moi.


How might you use these resin cabs? Leave me a comment and you could win them!

First Giveaway

The blue glass used to make the flowers is periwinkle - it's one of my favorite glass colors to work with. When working the glass in the flame, it turns a lovely pink color - sometimes I wish it could stay pink! But I don't feel I'm settling for this lovely shade of blue!

Have you made a new Year's resolution? Have you followed through so far or have you already fallen off the wagon? Leave a comment and you could win this set of lovely beads.

Welcome! Super Saturday Sales!

Welcome to the Super Saturday Sales! Thanks for taking time out on your busy Saturday to stop by!

I've already started my Clearance/Seconds Sale which will run until 7 pm tonight.

I'll be live online from now until 4pm EST. I'll have some surprises and giveaways going on for the next 3 hours.

Don't forget to check out the sales I'm having at the bleeding heart and my Art Fire shop.

But I've said SALES - so take a look around at my beady and jewelry making colleagues who are also having a sale!



Sale items available at the Earthenwood Shop on Etsy



Sale items available at Andrew Thornton's Big Cartel Shop.

My colleagues are online now too! So check out their shops for great deals!

I'll post my first giveaway in a few moments. Stay tuned!

Customer Service: Trouble Ordering?

An international customer sent me an email saying she's having trouble ordering. If this is you too, you can order by sending me an email at:

cindygimbrone@yahoo.com

or via AIM/ichat

Screen name: cindybeadmaker

Tell me what you'd like to order and I'll send you an invoice via Paypal. If you don't use paypal, you can still order. I'll send you an invoice.

Keep your questions coming! I'm online and ready to work with you!

Customer Service: Looking for Art Fire? Etsy?

If you're looking for the Art Fire and Etsy shops, just look to the left of your computer screen for the shop "windows." The windows are clickable - just click on the shop you'd like to visit.

Customer Service: Thanks for the feedback! Gliche fixed!

A couple of my early bird customers have sent me an email to alert me to a gliche in my shopping cart. Customers were being double charged for shipping. I'm happy to say I've corrected the gliche and refunded everyone's overcharge.

For those of you with AIM, my screen name is cindybeadmaker. Feel free to aim me!

Customer Service: I'm online today!

I'll be online today - so my customer service line is open! If you send an email to my yahoo address, I can take care of any questions you have or gliches that come up.

Feel free to email me at: cindygimbrone@yahoo.com

Clearance and Second Sale Event!

Sale starts now! You can go to my website and start buying if you up!

I'll be adding (if I can) throughout the day

I'll be LIVE ONLINE from 1pm -4pm today!

Can't work fast enough - Underestimate or Overestimate?

I'm working as fast as I can to put up all of the beads I want to clear out of my studio. I can't work fast enough! I may have to sacrifice the pretty descriptions so I can get on my site. Here's how the process works:

1. lay out all the trays of beads I have

2. re-organize into color or theme groups

3. place each group into a bag

4. set up for photos

5. take 4-6 photos of each bag

6. upload pictures to computer

7. choose 2-3 good pictures of each set of beads

8. upload pictures to web

9. organize and describe each and list on website

Yesterday's goal was to list 8 sets, I ended up listing 4.

Maybe this is TMI (too much information) but I felt I wanted to explain the sparseness of the descriptions. Here are a few of the beads I posted yesterday. I'm selling them cheap, cheap, cheap! They are ready to go to good homes :-)





I always underestimate how long something takes to do - what about you? Do you underestimate or overestimate?

How the Seconds Sale came about...

Some you might be wondering, why a seconds sale? What is a second?

A second is an art bead that may have a pattern slightly off, dots not exactly centered, unplanned color blending, beadhole flush rather than dimpled, proportions slightly off, etc. They have what I consider slight flaws. Other seconds are prototype beads - new designs that weren't quite there yet.

When I host an open studio, the visitors often want to buy my seconds. I think they're flawed but many of my bead buyers do not. So, the seconds sale was born.