Friday Findings

Friday Findings

I've decided that I want to start a new (and hopefully weekly) column on my blog called Friday Findings, so that I can share the cool things and ideas that I find during my bead blog travels on the Internet. Here's a couple of fun items that I came across while bead surfing today:

Venus Earring's Jewelry Designer Faceoff on Bix

I was uploading some recent earring photos to my Flickr Album this afternoon and discovered a website called Bix. There are a ton of fun contests on the site, like this one for the "Top Jewelry Designer" started by Venus Earrings. I think its a great idea and like to support jewelry designers who take that extra step to turn jewelry making into a challenge. Since I always have fun when entering a competition, I posted some recent earrings creations in the contest this afternoon. You should see some of the other beautiful entries, the other artists have done some amazing work!

Go to this contest on Bix

Jewelry and Beading's: What's on Your Worktable?

I subscribe to the Jewelry and Beading Blog through Bloglines, and in today's post was a call for pictures of your worktable. I'm really curious to know if people's work areas are as disorganized as mine and to see the great organizational ideas that others might be using to tame the beads. I thought it would be really fun to see what other workareas looked like, so I sent some pictures in to Cyndi over at the Jewelry and Beading Blog. If you're a jewelry maker, perhaps you'd like to send some pics of your workspace too!

Go to the Jewelery and Beading Blog

Anyway, that's it for this week's Friday Findings.

Have a great day!