Weekend Wrap Up

We hope you had a great weekend! I was on bead duty so helped Mommy make a kitty necklace...

She accused me of sleeping on the job but I didn't. I snoopervised her plus watched for birdies...

Multitasking is my specialty.  Looking at the camera, however, is not...

Anyway, the kitty necklace turned out really cute...

She's keeping that one and got a request to make a shorter one. She has to get more kitty beads though because our cat mom friends are asking about them! Probably because I helped with it.

What did you do this weekend?

Happy October to you!

Angel

Finally Friday

It's the last Friday in July! Tax season will be here before we know it! I think summer is going so fast because we're working so hard. As soon as we're done working on taxes, I have to snoopervise the making of beady goodies...

Somemommy pointed out that I was paying more attention to the birdies than beadies. As if. Anyway, if that's what she thinks, I'll snoopervise from a much closer vantage point...

Of course she complained that I was too close. Okay, how about I snoopervise from here?

We finally got the beady goodies made. They would've been done much quicker if she hadn't stopped to complain so much but whatever. After I did my snoopervising duties, Isabella had the easy job of modeling...

It took just a few shots to get that one. It helps that she moves at a snail's pace so her poses last an eternity. She really is a Tortie slug. 

We're hoping to relax this last weekend in July. August is a busy month for us with birthdays, an anniversary, noisy strangers on the deck, many thousands of people coming to our town to view the solar eclipse and even a visitor coming to our house the end of the month. Our sporadic posting will be even more so but we'll pop in from time to time. 

Do you have plans for the weekend? Any big events happening for you in August?

Hope you have a wonderful end to July!

Angel

Beady Helper

One of our BeadedTail customers purchased some beads online that she had sent directly to us to make earrings. That's a lot of pressure since she hasn't even seen the beads in person yet but thank Cod I was on the bead mat and ready to help...

We sent ideas to the customer for her and then we made these...

And these...

The customer was happy with how they turned out. We are too. Mommy couldn't have done it without me... 

It's a tough job being beady but somekitty's got to do it!

Have a beady kind of day!

Angel

Oh What a Weekend!

We just had a weekend like no other! It started off pretty normal with a bath in a sunpuddle...

But it quickly changed when we sold earrings from our BeadedTail shop to an incredibly talented author - Jacquelyn Mitchard! We were so shocked and excited that it took Mommy over an hour to find the words (and nerve) to email her our thank you! We asked if it was okay to tell our friends and fans about her purchase and she was very gracious in letting us do so. She also said she was going to wear our earrings in the photo for her next book cover due out in 2017! How's that for exciting?

What makes this sale extra special is that we have been severely lacking in making beady goodies for our shop. We'd simply lost the spark. We used to help Mommy bead because it was her escape from a stressful job situation. Now she loves her new job and is so happy that she hasn't needed that escape. This particular sale has reminded us of the joy we get out of making jewelry and having others appreciate our work too! Plus, the reason we make jewelry is to contribute to animal charities and that is still important to us. So, what does all this mean? It means we spent yesterday afternoon making beady goodies!

Yes I am snoopervising with the eyes in the back of my head...

And Isabella is multi-tasking by inspecting while watching Birdie TV...

This package* reignited the spark that we so desperately needed!

Sometimes we need reminders of what brings us joy. We're grateful and excited beyond words for this sale for many reasons! Most importantly, we're glad the spark is back even if it means less nap time between taxes and beady goodies! It's worth it!

Have you been putting off doing something that brings you joy?

We hope you have a glorious day!

Angel

*We wrap every package and include a handwritten note for every sale because each of our customers are special to us whether they are famous or not!

Weekend Wrap Up

Phew!  What a weekend!  It started off cold and rainy but turned warm and sunny so of course we enjoyed the sunpuddles...

But, it wasn't all relaxing.  Mommy got motivated to finally make new jewelry in order to prepare for a craft show so we helped her make a pair of earrings and five memory bracelets.  Can you tell we inspired her?

All five bracelets sold already so thank Cod the craft show isn't until December!  We'll be helping her make more so keep an eye out for them!

As for how my sisfur Isabella is doing, well, she was actually awake more this weekend but I'll let Mommy fill you in on her...

Mommy here:  We started Isabella on her inhaler Friday evening since her asthma attacks happen mainly at night.  Her daddy held her while I tried to figure out the AeroKat.  I had washed it and the little flap that shows her breaths wasn't quite dry so she was patient while I got it dry enough to work.  When the puff happened on the inhaler she jerked her head back and her nose came out of the cup at the end of the AeroKat but it was put back on quickly.  She took 10 breaths of the inhaler, however, that night she had three attacks and one was a lot worse than usual.  Saturday evening's dose went better and we were prepared for her jerking her head back so it never came off her nose.  She again got 10 breaths and although she seemed more active afterward, she had two short attacks within an hour.  Unless she actually got off the bed, we didn't hear any attacks at all Saturday night and none all day yesterday.  We're hoping this is a sign it's working and the attacks will be gone soon.  We're very thankful she's so mellow and we're hoping she continues to cooperate.  We thank everyone for the purrs!  They are working!

Hope you have a uneventful, lazy Monday!

Still A No-No Bracelet

As we told you last week, we got a request for a No-No bracelet and usually we only watch Mommy make those from afar, however, the request was from a kitty mom who wanted us to help AND have it documented.  We don't think this is what she meant...

As soon as I wanted to crawl on Mommy's lap to help, she put the tray on the table and said No-No.  I guess there's just something she doesn't trust about herself with all those itty bitty beads, string and needle...

This particular bracelet has 1,246 beads in it and took her about six hours to do.  Bet it'd go a lot faster if we helped! Anyway, she eventually finished and THEN she wanted help with modeling it.  Know what I said?  No-No!  She tried to get Isabella to model it but only after she informed her she could not give the bracelet the patented Tortie Taste Test.  Of course she got Tortitude...
Pffffft!

Uh, that's not scoring you any points Mommy...

So, since we didn't cooperate, here's a boring photo of only the bracelet with no kitty models in it.  Ho hum...

The bracelet is on its way to the kitty mom and we hope she loves it (even if we didn't get to help make it)!

Are there any No-No's in your house?

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Angel

Weekend Wrap Up

First of all, Isabella says thanks for all the birthday wishes!  She spent the weekend being spoilt by Daddy and we're pretty sure she'll be spoilt by him the rest of the year too!

Mommy had a great time at the coast with her friends.  There was a storm along the Oregon coast which means high winds, some rain and lots of high waves which they watched from the comfort of the rental home.  This was their view...

Mommy didn't think about taxes once all weekend but she did think of us a lot.  She even saw a kitty in her dessert - do you see it?

She and her friends stopped in Gifted in Depoe Bay where our BeadedTail journals being sold...

That was pretty exciting for her to see!  We were excited when she got home especially since it's nearly impossible to get Daddy up in the mornings - Mommy is super easy to annoy patiently wait until she wakes up and feeds us!  Anyway, it's back to work today so we hope you had a wonderful weekend too!

Enjoy your week!

Friday Flashback

We hope you had a Happy Thanksgiving!  We sure did even though we didn't get a drumstick.  We looked back to the day when we did get a drumstick...

*chomp*

Adios drumstick!

You can't fool a kitty with a faux drumstick.  Just sayin.

If you're shopping on this Black Friday, don't forget to shop local and handmade!  Our BeadedTail shop is online and always open.  So is our friend Sparkle's Zazzle store here.  Several of the BBArtisans are having a sale so check them out too!  

Happy Friday!

Isabella

Finally Friday

We made it through Halloween alright and hope everything was okay for you too!   It's hard to believe it's November already!  Anyway, I was just hanging out when Mommy asked if I could help her finish up a custom order.  It took me a minute to think about whether I wanted to or not...

Guess I didn't have a choice since Angel was watching leaves fall...

My job was to hold down on a necklace so it wouldn't get away.
Hey, it's Tortie colored!

It was a tough job but somekitty had to do it...

What would Mommy do without me?  

What do you help with around the house?

Hope you enjoy your Friday!

Isabella

Featureless Friday

Once again we don't have any features this Friday although we've been really crafty around here and working really hard.  When we're being crafty Mommy gets really messy so there's hardly any room for me to hold down the table plus try to reach the sunpuddles barely on the edge...

But rest assured, no dangly earrings get by my inspection...

My little sisfur Angel handles all the quality inspection of the packaging too...

We have listed some new earrings this week we can show you like these...

Mint Green Aqua Glass Beaded Niobium Earrings - Oregon Coast by BeadedTail

And these...

Owl Wood and Purple Beaded Niobium Earrings - Hoot by BeadedTail

See, we're not just cute, we're hard workers too! 

 Hope you have a great end to your week! 

Isabella

Fall is Just Around the Corner

We're not ready for fall but we're starting to think about it especially since this month's BBArtisans challenge is to create an item for Autumn or blog about what you like about Fall/Autumn.   We thought long and hard about this challenge...

Since we don't remember what we like about Autumn, we decided to help Mommy pick some Fall colored beads and chain since we LOVE chain...

Then we helped her put them together to make a necklace.  While we were doing this we remembered something we liked about the change in seasons, how much easier it is to see birdies in naked trees!

Anyway, back to the necklace.  We wanted it to be 36 inches long so it squiggles a lot at the bottom...

It turned out pretty good if we say so ourselves!  What would Mommy do without us?

Even though we like seeing the birdies better in naked trees we're not ready for Fall.  Are you?  

One thing we are ready for is spending time with our Grandma from Las Vegas and she's here visiting us so we're going to take a break until Tuesday.  We hope you have a great weekend!

Off to get spoilt by Grandma!

Angel and Isabella

Friday's Sorta Feature

We realize we should be doing Friday Features with some of the fun things we find but truth is, we haven't been able to find anything because Mommy keeps saying she's 'too busy'.  Of course she's not too busy to go out with friends, to work, to do Zumba, to do things in the yard but yet she's too busy to help us with a proper Friday Features post.  How's that for priorities?  She hasn't even sat down very often so we can help make more beady goodies and when she does, she often leaves them undone or topless even if we put our paw down...

Eventually we make her finish them though...

Trying to keep her on task is downright exhausting...

But seeing the end result is worth all the hassle...

Do your humans play the 'too busy' card too especially in the summer?

Hope nobuddy is too busy for you today!

Isabella

More Behind the Scenes

We often post photos on our Facebook shop page of beady goodies that we've created but we don't show the hard work that goes into making sure they are up to kitty standards.  Today I'll show you some behind the scenes work that goes into our items.  On Facebook, we showed this photo...

But we didn't show my test of how strong the earrings are...

Another photo, this time of topless earrings since they weren't quite done...

And here's the photo of me moving them closer for my inspection...

We posted this photo of me giving the sniff test to these earrings...

But we didn't show how I also tested the strength of the stick holding them...

So you see, there's a lot of important behind the scenes work that goes on around here which I know Mommy appreciates since she gets all excited and cheers me on when I perform my tasks.  I don't know what she'd do without me!

Hope you don't work too hard today!

Angel