NEW BRACELETS

I worked on a couple of bracelets for the Gentle Wind Designs store today.  It's been a while since I made this type of bracelets.  I used to make them all of the time when I first started lampworking.  I made the heart focals and then made lots of beads I thought would look good with them.  I like how they turned out.  I have some more ideas for some other fun bracelets.  These are all made in sterling silver and lampwork.

YOUR LOVE

PLAY TIME

Enjoy your day,

Raida

THANK YOU!

I am so blessed to have the opportunity to do what I love for a living.  I have to admit its very hard at times, but I struggle through those times and have faith that everything will be alright.  Thanks to those of you that follow my blog and support me in my art I am able to create every day and I am grateful to you!

As a small thank you, I will be having a end of year sale through January 2, 2012 at Havana Beads.  Type in "NEWYEAR12" when checking out and receive 15% off your entire order.  Orders placed between December 30th January 2nd will ship on January 3rd.  THANK YOU!

ENJOY YOUR DAY!

RAIDA

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas!  I hope that all of you are having a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends.  This is a picture of some of my little snowmen I have scattered all over the house.  I love them! This is as close to snowmen as I'm going to get.  It's been in the 80 every afternoon this week.

ENJOY YOUR DAY,

RAIDA

INSPIRED BY NATURE

I was looking through the Internet for inspiration for a new color set of fossilized beads and head pins and came across the most amazing Colorado Canyon pictures.  I've just added Colorado to my bucket list!  Here are some pictures of the head pins and also some new floral earring pairs.

LOWER ANTELOPE CANYON

Pictures taken by Ben Hattenbach at The Luminous Landscape

FOSSILIZED CANYON TRAIL

VIOLET SPLENDOR

DON'T IT MAKE MY BROWN EYES BLUE

ENJOY YOUR DAY,

Raida

NEW GOODIES

I've been working on new color combinations for my new line of "Fossilized" beads I've been making.  I really like this new set in blues and green.  I've also gone a little nuts making sugar beads in different colors.  Can't have enough colors right?  Here are some pictures.

Fossilized Seaside Glass Head Pins

Fossilized Seaside Glass Beads

Puffy Heart Head Pins

Light Turquoise Sugar Beads

Light Pink Sugar Beads

Teal Blue Sugar Beads

Lemon Yellow Sugar Beads

Coral Sugar Beads

Snow White Sugar Beads

Evergreen Sugar Beads

Cream Sugar Beads

Enjoy Your Day!

Raida

MORE BEADS ON ETSY

We're having such a beautiful sunny day for a change I have to take advantage and take lots of pictures.  It usually doesn't rain much in December here in Florida but it hasn't stopped raining for two weeks.  I was in the mood for flowers yesterday so I made some floral sets.  I was looking through my sold Etsy beads and it seems I usually sell these at my shows and they don't make their way to my Etsy store.  Here they are.

PINK MEADOW FLOWERS

VIOLET MEADOW FLOWERS

SWEET TANGERINE

FOSSILIZED MEADOW FLOWERS

(Thought I'd make new colors of this set)

Enjoy your day,

Raida

NEW GOODIES ON ETSY

These new goodies where just listed on Etsy.  Several earring pairs, focal beads and a set of Fossilized Sand Beads.  The head pins are so popular I decided to make a set of beads the same way.  Hope you like them.

FOSSILIZED SAND BEADS

WILDFLOWERS

SEASIDE MAGIC

CORAL DELIGHT

VIOLET SWIRL (LAST ONES)

BLACK AND WHITE DOTS

CRANBERRY SPARKLE BEADS

TREASURE COAST

VIOLET MEADOW

Enjoy your day,

Raida

WE HAVE A WINNER!

We have a winner!  The winner is number 10, Penny.  Congratulations!  Send me an email at havanabeads@yahoo.com so I can send these out to you.  Thanks to everyone who participated, I really appreciate you visiting my blog.

Enjoy your day,

Raida

HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY

As you can tell from my previous post I've been busy lately.  On my way to the mail box this afternoon I realized I still have Thanksgiving decorations out.  Oh boy, I'm really behind!  So in the spirit of the holiday's, here's a little giveaway to get me on the right track.  Just leave a comment and let me know how well organized (or not) you are this holiday season.  I will pick a winner next Monday, December 12th via Random.org.  Here's the present.

GOOD LUCK!

RAIDA

NEW GOODIES

I took the day off from creating today just to list new goodies on both of my Etsy sites.  If you have a store on Etsy or other on line store you know how long it can take when you have lots to list.  Here are the goodies.  There's a lot!

MOONLIGHT GARDEN

SCARLET

These are new head pins.  I hope to have these head pins later tonight or tomorrow.

VIOLET SWEETIES

TURQUOISE SWEETIES

FALL HARVEST

HONEYSUCKLE VINE

TEAL ELEGANCE

BLUE BIRD EARRING PAIR

PISTACHIO EARRING PAIR

EARTHY RAKU DISC

WHISPER

SOMEONE LIKE YOU

CASUAL SMILE

WILDFLOWER SILVER SPARKLE

(I also listed an earring pair of these)

RAKU SILVER SPARKLE

(I also listed an earring pair of these)

PINK PETALS SPARKLE

RIO GRANDE

FOSSILIZED ROUNDS

RED RAKU

NATURE WALK

JAMAICAN SPLASH

OCEANS' LURE

ENJOY YOUR DAY,

RAIDA