Mad Hatter Tea Party ~ Hosted by "The Garden of Beaden"

Alice in Wonderland Tea Party! 

On Wednesday evening May 26th, the "Garden of Beaden" held a
"Mad Hatter Tea Party" , hosted by Proprietor Irene Sanchez.

The "Garden of Beaden" host a quarterly Artists bead / creative art piece,
challenge. This is where the shop provides the theme of the challenge and the
local artists provide the artistic creative art pieces, based on the theme.
Irene,  encourages not just bead work to be entered in these challenges, but
any and all types of creative endeavor, that invokes the imagination of the current
challenge, using the chosen theme.

Last quarters challenge was "Alice in Wonderland" and anyone who has seen the movie
featuring  Jonny Depp, knows how creative one could get with this animated movie.

A mandatory requirement for this specific challenge ~ at the wrap 

up party ~ all would be required to attend the event with a 

favorite tea cup and loveliest hat your own, borrow, or make.

Let's hurry to the the party, before the "Mad Hatter" tells us to leave .....

Irene Sanchez ~ Proprietor

Love Dana's blouse, it's Alice again ~ 

At the end of the evening ~ we all had a chance to taste about
eleven different types of teas, they were all so delicious!
The Artist further chatted with each other about their projects and how
unique each individual piece turned out, exchanged business cards, blog address, ect.

You know, stuff like ....what's the next new adventure in the life and times of a Artist ~

The next "Garden of Beaden" challenge will be 

"the day of the dead" 

In the mean time ~ continue to motivate & stimulate 

us, as you always due. 

And as you

already know ~ "ART SAVES"

Much Love ~ 

Andrea

"God does the strangest things.

He stretches smiles

where there hung only frowns.

He places twinkles 

where there were only tears"

~ Max Lucado ~ 

Glitterfest Spring 2010

Yesterday, May 22, 2010 was a big day for all the artists who attending the 2nd annual, 

Mixed Media Art Show & Sale ~  "Glitterfest".

Hosted by Diane White & Sheryl Simpson of "Whimzy".

Whimzy is located at

474 El Camino Real 

Old Town Tustin

714-573-1025

~You'll want to stop by to see all the latest unique art pieces 

Whimzy receives weekly ~ and a few surprise pieces that will

"WOW" the socks off ya ~ 

On with the show ~ 

Artists arrival & set up between 7:00 &  9:00 am...

it was like watching a parade for two hours, I could not 

focus on one thing to long because, right behind the first

fabulous art pieces coming in ~ the next load of dollies and 

hired help, were bringing in loads of other fabulous art. 

It was really incredible. 

This show is a mixture of recycle, reclaimed, objects, 

old & new fibers, fabrics, jews, beads, glass, soldering objects,
paper, clay, ... and so much more then I can not capture. 

What I can say is, 90% of the artists and their art for

this show is exquisite and on the cutting edge of a new artist society.


So, here are just a few of the pictures I captured, I sure wanted
to take more. However, I hope you are able to attend the next
"Glitterfest" on October 2, 2010 ~

Artist Iva Wilcox and her mom

Ivascreations.com

Elks Lodge Ball Room 

Primitive dolls in the back ground 

were featured in the first publication 

of "Prims" magazine April 2010.

Artist Linda Martinez

allseasonspromo@aol.com

Artist Janet Schultz

JanetSchultz@verizon.net

Well, that was just a very small piece of the talented

artists that were at the show, there were 56 artists total, 

with approxiently 500 ~ 600 patrons in attendance.

I love this "corner of my world" that I have fallen into

in so many ways.  All the artists that I have come across have only wanted to share 

their craft openly and honestly to encourage and inspire everything hand made. 

My hope and wish for you, is that you do get the change to attended 

Glitterfest Fall on October 2, 2010 same place & 

same time. 

Much Love ~ 

sissydre (Andrea)

"Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will"

~Nelson Mandela

You'all coming to "Glitterfest" too ~

One full day until we are to arrive at "Glitterfest" ~ 

unloading & set-up time for us vendors will be 7 am sharp ~ 

at the Elks Lodge in Santa Ana, CA. 

I still have to pinch myself to believe that I will be one 

of the vendors, this is my first show EVER ~ So exciting :-)

Open to the public by 10am on the nose ~ 

I just put the finishing touches on the following ladies

that will be coming along with me to "Glitterfest" ~

Enjoy ~ and I hope to see you there ~ 

"Lady with pet rabbit; Sownja" 

"Flower Girl" 

"Riding Hood"

Well, these Ladies will be traveling with me on 

Saturday ~ I hope you get to stop by and chat 

with us all ~ 

I will also have some surprise jewelry pieces that 

I've been working on for quite a while ~ I hope

you like them ...

Okay fellow "Artiest Friends"  Until then ....

Much Love Always 

"Sissy Dre" 

Victory!

He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross. —Colossians 2:14

Jester Girl

Wow ~ Glitterfest is approaching quickly now, 

and the race begins on finishing up the details on the dolls. 

This month became increasing busy right under my nose, 

I kept telling myself I have some time left to get those ~ 

unfinished projects done, no problem. Yuikes ~ who was I kidding.

Anyhow, just finished up Veenas Mercantile Pattern ~ 

"Jester Girl" gave her a top hat last night ~ 

As well as "Mode Girl" with a bit of hair spray to keep the 

"DO" in place ~ 

And here are the girls ......

"People will insult you and hurt you. 

They will lie and say all kinds of evil things about you

because you follow me. But when they do,

you will be happy. Rejoice and be glad, because you 

have a great reward waiting for you in heaven".

~ Matthew 5:11 ~12

I hope I get to meet you at "Glitterfest" on May 22, 2010

Elks Lodge in Santa Ana, CA 

Event Time: 10am - 3pm 

Enjoy & Much Love ~

Andrea

Mom & Daughter Soldering Day at Garden of Beaden, Upland, CA.

Treasure Charm Bracelet ~ Class 

Saturday April 17, 2010

Garden of Beaden 

313 N. Second Ave.

Upland, CA 91786

909-949-7107

Instructor ~ Robin Dudley-Howes 

So..... a couple of weeks ago, my daughter Samantha ~ 

seemed interested in some sort of ~ jewelry making project. 

However, I wanted her to enjoy it so, I asked her

if she wanted to take a class at our local bead shop. And she said "Okay"

I was totally excited but of course I didn't want her 

to know that I was. So, we signed up. 

My new friend Tara, that I met at a previous 

soldering class at Piecemakers the weekend before ~ was also taking the class

with her daughter Ivy. 

I shared this with Samantha and she seems further amused. 

I wanted to share a snapshot of the day we had together ~ overall

it was really fun ~ we went to lunch together ~ chatted with the instructor and 

of course Ivy and Samantha chatted way more about school, friends and other

things ~ then getting the bracelet finished.

In the future ~ when Samantha wants to take a class ~ we'll be

taking a personal and up close class in the garage at home with the dogs. 

After instructions from our teacher we were to move forward with the project.

A kit was provide ~ so we didn't need to find objects or a bracelet.

Head is spinning ~ where do I start ~

And Mom ~ why are you already taking pictures?

Stop taking pictures ~ please.....

This is Ivy ~ she's having a wonderful time and she's smiling ~

So, it wasn't that bad as Samantha is making it out to be ~ 

Here is Tara and Robin Dudley-Howes

Ivy and Samantha (got a smile out of her)

My mentor Robin Dudley-Howes and me

Us again  

(Samantha took this picture standing on a chair ~ 

funny story behind this)

And of course our project ~ 

Samantha is the top bracelet 

and mine is the bottom one.

I wanted to ensure she had a good experience for all of our sakes

so I made sure we got hers finished before the end of class ~ As for mine

I will be working on it later.

As always ~ I love working and learning new techniques from 

my friend and instructor Robin Dudley-Howes ~ and always enjoy spending the day with a room 

full of talented artist ~ no matter who they are ~ 

Thank you for taking the class Samantha and spending the

day with your mom. 

"People will forget what you said"

"People will forget what you did"

"But people will never forget how you made them feel"

~ Maya Angelou ~ 

Much Love ~ Andrea