Gorgeous Beaded Jewelry by Plumbeadacious

Well it has been so long since a feature has donned any of the pages of this blog, I had almost wondered whether or not I was ever going to get back into the swing of things. But belated as it is I am glad to reintroduce my weekly BESTeam features and want to begin this week with the amazingly beautiful beaded jewelry of Plumbeadacious on Etsy!

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All items are clickable and will take you directly to Plumbeadacious' listings...

LeAllyson Meyer is the wonderful lady behind Plumbeadacious and hails from Severance, CO, United States. I first had a looky in at LeAllyson's store a day or two ago when first receiving the team email, and my goodness! If I could've gushed about how beautiful her store is then I would have! Still! even a few days late her store is just stunning! beautiful popping colors, and so many shapes and lines that make your eyes want to follow like they are little pathways. Amazing work! I have since taken a peek at her blog which to me shows off LeAllyson's great eye for piecing things together and showcasing joyful colors and beautiful things. I noticed she has a lot of different things from the gorgeous treasury she has recently posted, to posts about lovely fnids and her beautiful Iris flowers. (I miss mine from my old house!). The page itself is like a beautiful garden that had me as compelled to look around like I did in her store. Having read her profiles on both pages it is very evident that she is passionate about her jewelry making craft, having now being making jewelry for 7 years after being introduced to the art of beaded jewelry by her daughter, and has been selling her work for 5 years now. She works with lampwork beads, crystals, Czech glass beads, freshwater pearls and semi-precious stones, uses a variety of metals as findings, and also makes beautiful beaded lanyards which I think are so cool for the workplace!
Besides the work itself I just LOVE the way her shop looks, and particularly want to say how great and eye catching her shop banner is. I just cant take my eyes off it the piece captured in the image is so lovely, it just captures everythign about what she does and certainly made me want to look further when first landing in the shop. I would recommend anyone landing here to spend a moment checking out her work, you will definitely fall in love!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Plumbeadacious
http://www.beadaciouslyyours.blogspot.com/

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Birthday Princess!

Sunday! - Coffee and Cake
Mish mash mosh, children everywhere, actual cakes and bubbles...




My baby is now 1 entire year old! And wow what an exciting day we had last Saturday. The sun was shining, my food didnt turn into a complete mess (hurrah!) and despite madam's protests at all of her grown up birthday guests (she's still very clingy bless her) I believe that she had a very lovely day :)

I would have pictures of the party by the way! But my SD card has a corrupt image on it and I can't copy ANYTHING onto my PC. I have a reader on its way to see if I can transfer them direct (as opposed to through the camera), and hopefully i can show you some pics next weekend!

Anyway, onto the day! I myself was pretty pooped throughout the afternoon having been up in the wee hours baking cakes dancing to Outkast to keep me awake, whilst my other half was doing a big clean up around the house. It was one of those things where it hadn't exactly been planned that way but kind of happened regardless of the plans, as you know with kids it NEVER works out how you hope it will. We just make plans to make ourselves feel better and efficient don't we? LOL! So night owls we were!

My concerns were that I had possibly sabotaged the cakes as my tired and flappy arms began to flag as time progressed, yet luckily for the party guests they ended up looking and tasting pretty good! Phew! I decided to leave decorating them until the morning which was a good idea as the birthday girl decided at 2am to wake up just in time to celebrate the time of her birth, and inadvertantly spoiling the surprise of the amazingly flowery handmade decorations and balloons (the little monkey). A few hours were spent entertaining her with a present (the coolest wind up caterpiller EVER), watching her plough into balloons galore, and touching up on the last of my photo montage of her first year. It was all good, it worked out well in the end! I had fun decorating the cakes in the morning using lots of edible glitter, strawberries and wafer flowers! I haven't been so girly in years it was great!

Im really chuffed with how they turned out. I'm not into a lot of the things you see in the shops that they have for baby partys and was secretly horrified by just how much Disney stuff there was in my local card shop for party decorations, so ours were about 95% handmade by me, and were reused or recycled. I have this awesome flower circle punch that i used to use for labels for my hats but i had this amazing idea the day before as i rifled through a ton of old gift bags that were in the paper recycling, and made great use of them by making patchwork style paper flowers. They were a great hit with the guests and the kids, I was ever so chuffed!

In our garden i figured as a time saving mechanism, rather than decorate the trees, fences etc I got out a bubble machine and had that running for most of the day, along with the sand pit and pop up play house the children were really happy and seemed to enjoy themselves :)

My little man was a bit jealous so was frequently telling me that his sister still had presents to open (as he wanted to play with them lol!) but I was proud of him for being a good boy for the day. He has lately been a bit grumpy, probably to do with all the party planning goings on. But he made a great host for all of his friends and did a great job of leading and entertaining everyone, including us grown ups! My little girl had spent most of the day chasing bubbles or being held as she finds anyone but me or my partner an excuse to be a bit dramatic so that was an interesting dynamic to the day! It was rather silly but bless her she was giving everyone smiles in the end. :) It was a great day, I'm really pleased it all worked out.


Anyway! Until next time, have a fab Sunday!