The Dixon Chick: Crystal Mountain Beads

On Friday and Saturday, I had the pleasure of spending the day with the amazing folks at John Bead. They were having their warehouse sale and asked me to come in as a guest designer to promote the extended line of colours that they are carrying of Artistic Wire in 26 gauge. Ooohhh, the colours! My favourite new colour by far is the Gun Metal. It is a beautiful sort of bronzed gunmetal colour that is a very flexible wire and is so beautiful to crochet with.

It was a day for seeing old friends and meeting new ones. Some of the people I had the pleasure of meeting are:

Crystal Mountain Beads: I met Rose Turner, who owns the store with her sister. They have a lovely store in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Please check out their website. Looking at it, wish I could just beam myself over there immediately. They have Zinc beads - yes ZINC - I never even knew such a thing existed. The beads are lead and nickel free. They also have a wonderful assortment of lampwork beads. Rose and I will be talking soon about setting up some classes in her store. Remember, with the Dixon Chick - crocheting is NOT a prerequisite! I will teach you all you need to know to make my signature necklaces.

Canadian Beading Magazine: Oh, I was like a little girl meeting Santa for the first time, when I met Pat Frazier, Publisher and Allison Savage, Editor-in-Chief from Canadian Beading Magazine. Do you remember the awe and excitement that you felt the first time you met Santa? A little scared, want to be on your best behaviour, want to show that you are a good girl? Well - yep, that was me. I am a HUGE fan of this magazine - the ONLY Canadian Beading magazine out there. I am looking forward to having some discussions with them about putting in some wire bead crochet patterns... would you like that? Let me know! And please continue to patronize the magazine, enter their contests, write letters to editor, put ads in the magazine and buying the kits. Aren't the Beading Etiquette articles an absolute riot?