"Skittle" Bugs...

...I know I shouldn't be posting this because it's supposed to be a RAK and I think both the people I'll be RAKing actually come visit me once in a while...but oh well, I'm just SO not good at keeping secrets or WAITING! I wanna share NOW!

Okie dokie, so I can't take all the credit, a member had posted these cute little ladybugs that she did with her "Skittle" beads and I thought, 'Self...well hey! I haven't done anything like THAT yet!' So I took it a couple steps further and used my alcohol inks and perfect pearls! Have a peek - these'll probably release as an official part of my line sometime mid-this-month or early next month, we'll see how ambitious I get! I've got a few more critter/animal ones coming too...*giggles* Okay, PICTURES PUH-LEASE!

I know I TOTALLY went overboard with the pictures...but it's my blog, so ask me if I really feel all that bad. LOL...I just LOVE those little critters...I've got one address and I'm just waiting for ONE more and I can send those babies off with their card. I'm so EXCITED! More in store...I can't believe how fun these little beads are! And to think, I just grabbed them because they were beside the cash register with a big clearance sign on them and I didn't even KNOW what I was going to be doing with them yet!

Wouldn't that make a GREAT interview story in some crafting magazine??? LOL...meh, one can only hope right? In the meantime, I'll keep playing around in the "Skittles" lab...

CURRENT MOOD: AWAKE...WIDE AWAKE...! CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: TAKE A BOW - RIHANNA

Balancing act...

...okay, so it's a GOOD thing I got all my orders completed BEFORE I got the E-Mail letting me know that I can pick up my Wii Fit earlier today, or else I wouldn't have gotten ANYTHING done!

Oh wow, this game is SO AWESOME!

Yes, it did everything but tell me I'm an obese cow (though not in so many words) but it's great! I've been hearing great things about it and I can definitely see why. If you find that you can get your hands on one of these, GO FOR IT!

I got a little bit of play time in the "Skittles Lab" and I'm wondering how people are liking the Bic markers and colouring the beads in? I'm not having the BEST time with them except for the BLACK marker. Everything else seems to be...I don't really know how to call it...but you can see all my lines of colour, especially if I go over the same area more than once...I thought I had a handle on these beads, but I guess I don't have the Bic touch!

Anywho, I'm getting up early tomorrow morning to get some Wii Fit in before work! HAPPY JUNE!!!

CURRENT MOOD: CURRENTLY LISTENING TO:

Sugar and spice...

...and beads that are NICE!

Remember the clear, flat-backed beads that I had posted a few days back and then RAK-ed? I sent Nicole the samples and she got SO excited when she found some at her local M's. She bought one of every colour and posted an announcement for them on The Board and it really picked up!

The Mister got carried away with some paperwork for his business, so I snuck (okay, well I didn't HAVE to sneak in there, but I WAS the one who promised I would be paying 100% attention to him and not The Board or The Room) into my scraproom and got down to business.

If you remember my re-colouring of the brads from the tips and tricks book I had read from, I thought I could also try these with my beads. I used my Making Memories needle tool and stabbed the flat part of the bead. Wiped it onto my embossing pad and dipped it into my embossing powder. Heat-gun, rinse, repeat. Well, nix the rinse part, that's just me being quite the clever Trevor referring to shampoo instructions. Oooh, okay, not funny tonight...moving forward.

ANYWAYS, I was sitting there after my triumphant attempts, with my chin in my hand and I happened to glance up at my shelves and saw my Thursday's acquisition. The super fine glitter! (HAHAHAHA, I sound like those players that refer to women as 'super fine'). I needed the glitter to stick to my little bead baby, so I got out my adhesive tape and wrapped it around the bead - FINNICKY work let me tell you. Again, got the bead up on my Making Memories needle tool thing and dipped it into the glitter. Sooo nice, I wished I could leave it that way, it reminded me of a jujube (my FAVOURITE word in the whole world). But I knew there'd be a hot mess of glitter everywhere if I didn't take care of it, so I put it under my heat gun for a bit to soften the adhesive underneath all that glitter, and when it got soft, I pressed the glitter into the adhesive and then rolled it around in my fingertips.

'Nuff talk,' you say, 'get to the pictures'...happy to oblige!

Introducing:

SilkySkittles - because they look so smooth and silky!

SugarSkittles - because of the adhesive tape, when I wrapped it around the bead and glittered it, it was still a bit lumpy looking, so I wanted to call these SugarLumps, but it sounded kind of pervy, so I stuck with the Skittles theme.

I forget, but did I even mention to you what happened with the thread that Nicole started? Everyone was getting tired of calling them 'those little bead thingies' so Avra's mom announced that we should name them Skittles - after ME because I had first posted about them! *LOL* I LOVED it! In case I never mentioned it before, I'm SillySkittles on The Board. Pleasure. Nice to meet you. Charmed, I'm sure...Avra was saying it looked like I was on to something, too bad though, because I doubt Skittles(TM) will be willing to share their name with me. Ah well, it'll do for The Board!

CURRENT MOOD: CURRENTLY LISTENING TO: HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT - ?