Black Friday Weekend Tutorial Sale!

Hi all!

I would like to offer everyone a special sale. From now until Sunday night, when you buy one of my tutorials on coloraddiction.com, you will get one of equal or lesser value for free! This is great for gift giving - buy one for your friend and get one for yourself! I am happy to email to two separate people or to the same person, whichever you like. Just mention which tutorial you would like as your free one when you order, and please don't forget to give me the email address(s) you would like the tutorial mailed to. This sale is valid for any of the five tutorials listed on this page:

http://www.coloraddiction.com/kandices.html

Sale ends Sunday night at midnight!

Feel free to spread the word!

Thanks. :)

Grandmas and Christmas Colors

Hey, I know it's nowhere near Christmas-time yet, but I am in the mood to share something festive and sweet.

Around the winter holidays, I start to reminisce about family - and especially grandmas. See, in my family, grandmas are all about Christmas - pageants, skits, dressing up in adorable holiday-themed costumes, and of course.....singing. Oh, the singing! I have about a million cassette tapes with holiday songs sung by various family members as children and adults. Listening to them brings up precious memories and feelings of sweet nostalgia. And maybe a tiny bid of sheepish embarrassment at being taped singing completely off-key. But it makes the grandmas so happy.

So whenever I start working in holiday color schemes while making beads, I always have my grandmas and great-grandmas on my mind.

This year, I got to start the Christmas color schemes early. My Grandma Betty (my mom's mom) asked me last month if I would make her a holiday-themed beaded charm for her to give to her long-time friend for her birthday in late November. Of course I said yes!

Grandma and her best friend Verna met when they were just 7 or 8 years old. They went to school together in a place called Manti, Utah. They lost touch after being friends for a long time, and Grandma says she ran into Verna again when they were in their 60's. Now they are best friends again - what a small world!

So Grandma wanted something special for her good friend - something unique and meaningful. Verna's birthday is later this month, and Grandma says she puts up a tiny Christmas tree for the holidays around that time. So a handmade charm would be perfect for Verna.

I smiled the whole time I made beads for this charm, because I can just see the grandmas of the family in these colors - cheerful red, snow white and fresh green. The fact that the charm is to be given as a gift to a dear friend of Grandma's just makes it sweeter.

So Verna - happy birthday! I hope this charm makes you smile. I am happy that my wonderful Grandma Betty has such a good friend.