Tampa's natural beauty

     Peridot waters and pen fishes. Downtown St. Pete.

     Safety Harbour private garden

   Safety Harbour bamboo tree - "bambuzal" - private botanic garden.

Safety harbour - private garden

    Sunset on Clearwater Beach.

    Safety Harbour

     White birds.

                 Yellow flower - private garden on SH.

     Pink birds on pier.

      Modern bridge under foggy evening on Tampa Bay.


The city is blessed by a fabulous tropical weather. It's full of life and natural beauty, lots of flowers, birds, canals, lakes, ocean...a wonderful surprise.

Bead and Button Show 09

My participation at the The Bead and Button™ Show in Milwaukee this year was very discreet. I helped WW during his workshop about Innovation findings by Beadalon® and it was quite successful. He got 32 students in class and they all loved his charismatic and sunny presence as well his knowledge and expertise about his field.

On my side I had a demo at the Crystallized™ booth of 2 projects from "Exposed". Crystallized™ provided me with a variety of color for the same components and I was able to have the original projects and 2 more color variation of each on my table so people could see where else you could go using the original project as a guide. I actually liked more the new variations than the book's versions. It's nice when you can take a design and re develop and turn it into something better. many times I create something and I want to undo it and do it again. O real life we can't do that because we have deadlines.

I had the chance to talk with 3 ladies about the pieces itself and we got more people at the booth once I started giving away free copies of the book. I was awarded by the presence of Katie Hacker who signed the books with me. Thanks to our publisher who sent copies for this impromptu promo.

It was my first time demoing for Crystallized™ but I did feel at home since I know the product and the staff.

Fernando says:

- Isn't quite exquisite that color combination??? - padparadsha and fire opal...those earrings move with your body honay ! very subtle!

BOOK SIGNING

Having a glamorous Crystallized™  with Swarovski® Elements curtain as a background  this blogger and fellow designers  Margot Potter and Katie Hacker signed and gave away free copies of "Exposed" during the Create Your Style Workshops in Tucson last Feb 5th.

Exposed Bead and Wire Jewelry is the newest guide of handmade jewelry assembled uniquely with Beadalon® findings and Crystallized elements. 

Lightness, style, creativity and fresh ideas using stringing wire and basic components widely available in the market are the filling of this hot of the press book.

An excited crew were waiting to meet the authors and take their freebies home - that included press material and "bonbons" Garoto® from Brazil to accentuate the elegance of the occasion. Yes, bubbles were missing but people cannot drink and drive so we had to skip that.

We all believe that the whole package was definitely GLAMOURAMA !!!

It seems like we were having a ball! Look at our faces...

Check that crew of very charming ladies fighting for a copy of  "Exposed"... see, I have told you people. 

The 3 still bookable Create Your Style Ambassadors for Crystallized elements - from left: Me, Katie Hacker and Margot Potter.