Beads!

Having ordered what I felt was an almost obscene amount of beads, charms and findings from various stores on Amazon a couple of days ago, I was pretty happy to have the mailman knock on my door this afternoon.  I was greeted with "you've been spending money again, haven't you missy?!" which made me laugh as I tried to protest my innocence and blaming the cat.
Needless to say, he didn't believe me.  At all.
I had barely closed the door before tearing into the packages that he was delivering, like a child given free reign over their stack of Christmas presents.
Before long my coffee table was covered in beautiful beads and I was having to have strong words with the cat who naturally thought that all of the pretty shiny things belonged to her.

Note to self: curious cats are not conducive to jewellery making! 

Anyway, I wanted to share a couple of my favorite things that arrived today - some gorgeous cameos that I'm looking forward to finding some lovely backs for before turning them into pendants and Evil Eye beads that I cannot wait to create bracelets with!

Aren't they lovely?
I think this weekend will be dedicated to jewellery making.  Oh - and baking some white chocolate and red berry blondies, of course!

Vesta xox