Living on the edge

Size: 62 x 32 x 1mm – new on Etsy.

Freezing

Brrrrr ... the news say it's going to get horrible cold at the end of this week.

Well, I'm freezing already since days, as the heating in my appartement is broken.

Unfortunately my landlord is a very busy person and hard to reach.

So I kept leaving messages, telling him that it's freezing cold in my appartment

– and by the way, winter outside ... he didn't react for weeks!

Finally last week he sent some mechanics over to take a look, but it turns out

I need a new heating, which will still take a few more days at least,

maybe even longer.

So at night I have usually 13°C here, during the day it gets up to 18°C if I'm lucky ...

So glad I have a torch and glass kiln here; at least beadmaking should keep me warm.

Please keep your fingers crossed for me, that it will

soon get warmer in here, I don't like freezing.

Caramel Flower

This one comes with a small flower spacer – new on Etsy.

Second generation

Everything should be in motion, right? Like energy, money, friendship, love –

if things stop flowing there can't be any progress.

Recently I didn't feel a connection to my Fairy beads anymore.

The reason for that is that I have been teaching them so often,

and I have seen so many replicates of them

that I don't feel like they belong to me anymore.

My students have been especially focused on making the face

expression and the eyes the same way I did.

So now I am at a point where I don't see myself doing it like I used to anymore.

But that's not a bad thing ... I have to get in motion again

and try new things to see where it leads me ...

I'm excited to work on new things, different hairstyles for my Fairies, different facial expressions ...

A friend of mine (she owns a glass studio in Switzerland) said one day about

my Faires: "actually those are all little Melanies ..." – so now I'm working

on making them feel like me again.

This one is new on Etsy now ... and I am going back to the torch.

Fairy in turns

Pendant size: 62 x 29 x 10 mm

Under which star are you born?

Yesterday I just told you about the birthday of my father – so he's a Capricorn.

Do you believe somehow in horoscopes?

Well' i would say I don't, if we're talking about horoscopes
written for trashy gossip magazines etc.

But I do believe that certain zodiac signs have

certain things in common which certain people can be attracted to
again and again ...

I myself am a scorpio,
but I wouldn't consider myself a very typical scorpio in some ways,

but in others I have to admit I am.

And ... I very well and easily get along with other femal scorpios

(especially if they are beadmakers too,

like Sarah Hornik, Nancy Gant and JC Herell).

Well, back to the Capricorns ... can't believe how many of my dear friends and family

members are born under this sign.

So this bead is a Capricorn too. In case you also have that mystical

attraction for this sign you can find this bead in my Etsy store.

Staying positive

The sun has been shining so nicely in the last few days.

Even tough it turned pretty cold outside, I enjoy it way more than

the warm rainy days we had recently.

This weekend I visisted my family, as my father just turned 60 and we had a nice party.

We laughed, eat, drank and talked a lot;

actually it reminded me of one of those typical italian family dinners
you see on TV , where everybody is chatting loudly at the same time,
so nobody understands a single word ;-) ...

I'm planning on sending out my first newsletter pretty soon

with an Etsy discount coupon, so if you want to get it

please make sure to register for my mailing list right above this posting.

Both pendants are new on Etsy now.