Hi all,

Hope your NEW YEAR is off to a great start! Steve and I were without Internet access for 5 days... soooooooooooo frustrating! It took our ISP this long to figure out the problem and fix it... but thank goodness they did and we're back! Being without online access made us realize just how much we use the Internet... since we've been offline for the last five days, we are still working on catching up with answering emails... if you haven't yet heard back from us, please know, we're working on it.

On ebay, I have listed a few new auctions... two of them will run for 3 days and one for 7 days... the first new auction in ebay is RIBBONS... a collection of handmade lampwork glass beads in black with trails of ivory ribbon winding around the beads with 2 encased rounds, created with earrings in mind... next is MOCHA TRIO... a trio of lampwork beads, created with a bangle style bracelet and matching earrings in mind, done in mocha browns, pale champagne and silver... next up is HONEY DENIM created in honey ambers and denim blues with matching earring beads and one little "danglie" created to add to your clasp, perhaps?

Today I did some research on colors for Spring and one of the web sites that I visited was Pantone's... beautiful, yummy, gentle colors on the Springtime horizon... French Vanilla, Sand Dollar, Blue Tint, Cameo Pink, Lily Green, Skyway, Viola, Melon, Clove and Deep Ultramarine... here's a link if you want to see for yourself... http://pantone.com/articles/pdfs/FashColRprt_Spring06_lo.pdf... this is a fun page with lots of great color ideas... their actual color chart for Spring is shown on the last page... hope you enjoy!

That's it for now. Take good care and have a GREAT weekend!

Gracie