My only defense is that I haven't felt the greatest the past 2 weeks and sinus medication makes my head feel like a cotton ball, BUT - I was relying on my notifications to let me know when someone posted something. What it has taken me 6 months to figure out is that notifications only tell me if someone has commented/liked one of my posts. It does NOT tell me if someone created a NEW post. This has not been that obvious in the past cause you guys mostly just commented on my stuff. Until the last 2 weeks! I am thrilled that you guys are using the community and mortified that I did not answer you! Especially those of you who were clearly directing their posts to me and not getting an answer ( @Carlette Stanley ) Thank you to @Kate Kemp for tagging me in Carlette's post and thus bringing this to my attention. And here I was thinking you guys were just busy making holiday gifts!

I am going to try something different for the Q&A calls. I am going to make them quick, 30 minute calls, but do them once a week. I am going to spend the first 10-15 minutes doing a demo of a basic stitch and then open up for discussion for 15-20 minutes. I have scheduled them out through November, starting this Saturday. You will see them on the calendar. To join, you just click the link in the calendar. Evening calls will be tough for me through the winter, but we will see how it goes. I will record the sessions.

Guys, I can't believe it, this little group is now over 500 members! I'm so thrilled to have all of you here, I hope you find it interesting. If there's anything you want to see or if you have questions that are beading related, either send me a chat or put it in a post. A lot of new members signed up in the last couple weeks, feel free to introduce yourself and let us know what you're working on. If you're new to beading, then let us know what you want to learn, there is a lot of beading talent in this group!