Have you seen the movie “The Kid’ with Bruce Willis? I loved this movie it was on agin last weekend as the Sunday afternoon Disney Movie. A great way to spend the afternoon finishing the weekend with a feelgood movie.

The general idea of the movie is a man who is very cynical about life and is visited by his 8 year old self. Which forces him to look back on his life and what his dreams were at that age. His 8 year old self is disgusted with himself because he is not a pilot and does not own a dog and also single. I am not going to tell you how the movie ends but I think its worth seeing.

What this movie led me to question is “What I wanted to be when I grew up”? and If my 8 year old self was to come visit would they be happy with how I turned out?

Well when I was 8, my lifes dream was to own a Lollie shop, one of those olf fashioned English Lollie shops that had jars of lollies all around the walls. It was a happy dream I liked lollies and the jars always made me happy and smile.

So jump forward 26 years and do I own a lollie shop?

Welllll not exactly. The simple answer is no. But I do have those shelves and jars full of what look like lollies but are instead beads. So perhaps in part I did grow up to be what I wanted I just can;t eat the contents of the jars. I still get happy and smile on my face so the feeling of the dream is the same.

Would my 8 year old self be happy with the outcome. I think they would have a hell of alot of fun playing in my studio. I think I got the healthy version of my original dream, its a good thing I can;t eat those beads.

Last year when I went to New York I visited the M & M shop and along the walls were massive tubes of M & M’s colour coordinated these reminded me of all my tubes of seedbeads that I had sitting on my shelves at home.

So I ask you what did you want to be when you grew up and would your 8 year old self be happy with what you have become?

What a wonderful book full of lots of stunning eye candy.

I never knew it was possible to make so many beautiful buttons. The book is very easy to read with lots of beautiful photos, Instructions and graphs are very easy to follow.

The book is broken down into 5 sections
*Needle Lace Buttons
*Braid Buttons
*Crocheted Buttons
*Frog Closures
*Fabric and Ribbon Buttons

I can picture some of these stunning buttons as closures for an elaborate seed bead project or made up and simply worn as pendants. There are so many possibilties that you can use these for other then just buttons!

You will not be disappointed with the purchase of this book.

Well its nearly the end of the financial year. Time to stocktake and do all the paperwork for the tax man.

To minimise the amount of counting I have to do I am doing a End of Financial year Sale.

15% Discount store wide.

Well I don;t know if you would find this fish in the sea as I think it more of a tropical fish, but it would certainly look good in your fish tank.

Its a fused dichroic glass cabochon with a fish that has been handetched into the glass. Perhaps you have a sea themed piece of jewellery in the works or just love fish.

I am clearing out all the bracelet blanks that I have in stock. Once they have been sold I will no longer be stocking them.

I have the gold plated and silver plated bracelet blanksin stock. These are great for glueing on fused glass cabochons or any other altered art pieces you have to make unique bracelets.

Simply use a Araldite or a super glue to glue on the cabochons.

You can find the bracelet blanks in the clearance section of my shop.

Clearance Section