Impulsivity
About a dozen of my online my bead artist and designer friends were all planning on attending Bead Fest in Philadelphia last weekend. I yearned to meet these women in person because I had enjoyed and cherished our online communication so much. Once I got the idea of going to Bead Fest, I couldn’t get it out of my thoughts. Mind you, I live in the completely opposite corner of the United States. Flying to Pennsylvania for just a day and a half is totally expensive and frivolous. Etc.,etc.!
I wanted to go anyway! I’m retired, right? Time to have some fun. Well,I thought, I’ll just take a peek at online ticket prices…no harm in that. The first time I looked, tickets ranged from $565-$1500. Yikes! No way. But I kept monitoring the airline prices and by Friday night the prices had fallen to $507. I’m usually not given to impulsivity, but my desire to personally know my beady sisters, out-weighed any judgement or caution. I booked my tickets at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday night and in less than 24 hours, I was on my way to the Philly Bead Fest!!!
Bead Table Wednesday
So here’s what’s on my bead table today: my great new bead stash from Bead Fest. I know you’re jealous, but don’t drool on your keyboard, OK?
Hands of the Hill
Kazuri Beads
Dyed howlite & matte finish sodalite
Hand-painted porcelain
etched and matte agate beads
Rustic fire polished beads
Drop beads
Tribal beads and pendants
Delightful rustic glass beads
Lampwork glass flowers
Drilled river stones
Here’s Diana Ptaszynski demonstrating how we all felt after a day’s worth of bead shopping: exhausted! We revived ourselves with an excellent dinner at Legal Seafood—but more on that in a future blog post.
Bead exhaustion!!!
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Visit the BTW Flickr group and see what others have on their bead tables.
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Well, thanks for the warning, so I only had a trickle hit my keyboard, instead of a flood! I love the rustic tone of your purchases. Those rustic fp are stunning! Did you get to meet a lot of folks? I’m so thrilled you took the plunge and went. I still haven’t, and I live a lot closer to Philly than you! 🙂 Have a wonderful week!
lol!!
Love all the pictures of your new treasures!! I really like the last picture!! Exhaustion, but soooo worth it!! Enjoy creating!! 🙂
Sounds like you had a great time. I’ll be going to the Bead Fest here in NY on 4/22 and can’t wait. I’ll have to save up.
Oh boy, I’ll be right over to play with your new beadies!! I WISH!!
That is actually doable! With a bit of planning we could all meet at the Pacific NW Bead Festival in Tacoma in July!
Needless to say I’m so drooling on my keyboard!!! LOL
Why do all these fab events take place in the US and I live in Italy? 😦
Glad you had fun, Linda 🙂
And I love all the beads you bought! fab!!!!
You got some gorgeous beads! It was great meeting you! Xoxo….Linda
What a haul! I think I like the agates best of all. I expect I’ll see a lot of these goodies turning up in your designs soon 🙂
Sounds as if you had a wonderful time, Linda. And what great finds! Look forward to your designs using the beauties 🙂
Oh, you must be thrilled with all your gorgeous new beads!! And to think you got to mucky-muck with the actual artists! I’m so glad you got to go, Linda. Can’t wait to see what you do with all your treasures.
Wow! There was definitely some drooling involved over here. What FUN! I wish I could bring myself to be THAT impulsive (don’t get me wrong, my hubs thinks I’m impulsive enough 😉 )!!
I’m so glad you got to go so that you could share your finds and the fun with us here.
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