In celebration of hitting 500 members, I have added my "Give Thanks" Bracelet Pattern to the "Free" Section in the classroom. Download it now because it will only be there until Thanksgiving! Thank you all!

My grandkids are here so I won’t have a lot of free time this weekend. What are you guys working on? I’m trying to finish up the instructions for box 7 that starts shipping on Tuesday (post office is closed on Monday for Columbus Day)

I'm just curious, what crafts do you do besides beading? I've done just about everything over the years, sewing use to be my passion before beading. I can do just about anything except flower arranging, I'm terrible at that! What other types of crafts, besides beading, are you actively working on?

Sooooooo, we may have miscounted some of the beads for project 5 - light aqua, dark aqua and the lime green #8. Some of you may have gotten enough beads and some of you are going to be short. I will be mailing out the beads Friday or Saturday to those of you that I have already sent Box 5 to. If you finished Box 5 with enough beads, please send me a chat to let me know I don't need to send you more beads. Thanks for being understanding! UPDATE: So I figured out where I went wrong. I sent out an email this morning, everyone will be getting additional beads. I changed the design of the clasp eye and didn't adjust the beads. You should have enough beads to do everything but the eye.

THIS WAS AN EDUCATION!!! I pull the thread way too tight when I'm doing peyote which explains why I have such a hard time weaving in the ends. I also have the propensity to break beads when I'm weaving in. I did the base of the bracelet in peyote. When I went to add the brick stitch I couldn't get under the threads because it was so tight. I fought and fought to get under those threads. After the first row everything went fine because the prior row of brick stitch wasn't as tight. I need to loosen up. Here's the end result displayed on my beautiful new Bead Envy Bead Board.