Show and TELL!

Drum roll, please!  I got word about this time last week from Fire Mountain Gems that my seed bead finalist piece had indeed been selected for a magazine ad!  YAY!   So here is the magazine - a UK publication, and one I haven't been able to find around town here anywhere, yet.  They were kind enough to send me a copy - but I had hoped to have a second one to keep clean and pristine.  Maybe one of my FB or blog followers from the UK can help me out!

But anyway, without further ado.... here's the mag cover:

It's the June Wedding Special Issue of Bead and Jewellery magazine!  (Don't you just love the way they express things in the UK?  So much prettier, with all those extra consonants and fancy wording.)

And here's what the AD looks like - a little blurry - taken with my phone camera.... it's also a close up - the original ad includes the beautiful focal butterfly section as well:

   Normally, as many of you know, FMG ads appear on the BACK of bead related publications.  But not this one, which in my personal opinion - is a good thing. In this one -  It's the FIRST thing you see when you open the front cover.  Now, when I look at magazines, I'm much more likely to look through them cover to cover more than once, but probably NOT glance at the back more than once.  So this puts ME in front of way more eyes, way more times!  HOORAY!
So I hope you forgive me the horn tooting and back slapping - I am proud of this accomplishment - followed by excitement at being a part of the ZNetShows design team. (great segue, don't you think?  :) We're getting closer to the reveal date - which won't be until JULY sometime.  I've sent all the pertinent photos and details off to Hope - and now we WAAAAIIIT!   It's so hard!  I will be sure to 'reveal' all just as soon as she says GO!

So this may be the last blog for a bit again - hopefully not til challenge reveal, but we shall see....
My first BIG summer show of the season is SATURDAY.  This will be the first show that I have done that has had SPONSORS, which means ADVERTISING.  In a BIG, BIG way.  Radio ads, TV ads, there is signage all over Okemos, we girls are spreading the word like wildfire all over the web, and hanging posters up all over town.  It's also different in that it doesn't BEGIN until 2 in the afternoon.  So I don't have to get up EARLY (YAY) to set up, BUT -  I will be setting up in the heat of the day, which, depending on where I'm located, may NOT be so YAY.  I may also be taking things down in the dark. Could be interesting, but either way,  it's going to be a BLAST!

One could only hope to sell out of all of one's creations.  But then, what would I sell at the show I have NEXT weekend - my beloved Art Market.   What a dilemma to have!  LOL!

Hope you are all having a terrific summer, and it's full of blooming beauty.  Mine sure is:

Peaceful beading,
TTFN