Happy New Year 2008!

Hello!!!!! Happy 2008! May this new year bring much peace, happiness, prosperity, and other good things to all of you. :) It is time for my annual New Year's Resolution that this year will be my biggest and best beady year ever! After re-locating to Lincoln, Nebraska this summer, I found some good holiday craft shows to do, and I'll be doing a couple more in the spring. And I finally just now got my bead studio set up again, and I have enjoyed making beads for the past 2 weekends. I sure missed it!!!! Luckily, I didn't totally forget how to do it. :) Here are some fun new jewelry items (made with my recently-created beads)...I've posted for sale throughout my site and on Ebay:

I've also made several more beads but I haven't made them into jewelry yet! And I've listed several pairs of Valentine-theme earrings on Ebay, too. Lots of pink and red, just on time for the holiday!!

In non-beady news, I had much fun spending New Year's Eve in NYC's Times Square with my husband and my sister!! It was really neat to see the ball drop, and it really wasn't too cold, so that was good! We stood in Times Square from about 4pm til about 12:15am. No bathrooms...but we survived! :) We also visited the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Grand Central Station, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park, and Ground Zero, shopped on Fifth Avenue, had meals with a couple friends who live in NYC, and saw Avenue Q and the Color Purple. We had a busy but really fun time!