In Other News . . .

Remember Alison Whittington of paintandink and The International Institute for Fantastical Exploration and Cartography? She's running an awesome special! Her blog announced that in view of National Talk Like a Pirate Day she's offering free Sea Monster Breath prints. Check it out!
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Also, an artish treasury that features a ring of mine made the 1st page of Etsy last night! Yay!

If you haven't seen it up close yet, take a look! It's gorgeous and will be up a couple more days!

While I'm at it, I was also featured on The Art Zoo, which was cool!

And I have a few thanks to offer to a few freinds who were kind enough to recognize my blogging efforts!

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Ileana of EnchantedBeads awarded me a prize on her blog, as did Ana Karenina of Just About Anything and most recently Carol Dean Sharpe of SandFibers, the blog and the shop.

The way this works is I pass on the recognition! There are other rules too, but I'm going to blithely ignore them and simply share blogs that I enjoy reading.

My top 10, in no particular order:

BeadArtOriginals

The RadioGirl Reports

Art Bead Scene Blog

Exploring the Art of Polymer Clay

beading mania

Needle Tatting and other Nonsense

MaryLou's Art [Ad]venture

Salamander House Studio

SandFibers

clinkscalesarts

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I keep tabs on all the blogs on my sidebar, but those are my faves.

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