Yes, the annual DFW Fiber Fest starts TOMORROW at 8:30AM.  (Yes, that seems horrifically early to be somewhere on the other side of the airport, but there we are.)  Beautiful yarn, fantastic classes with nationally recognized teachers, yarn, all the newest and most fabulous knitting and spinning hardware, and yarn!

We’ll be there, in the Grapevine Convention Center, debuting our new beadweaving kits (!!  “as seen on Facebook!”) and we will also have the Famous Artful Bead Fill-The-Bag trough of beads, for your digging pleasure.

And, as time permits, we will be running all over smooshing the yarn, getting a tad high on yarn fumes, and being told that if it’s drooled on, it’s sold! (You know, I think that someone who allows me to pet cashmere yarn before lunch should expect a little dampness when they try to yank it out of my hands… I think I’m part Siamese cat, maybe.  They drool on soft yarn too. Well, mine does.  Actually he drools on anything when he’s happy.)

So check out the blog to see all of the vendors, they are all very interesting and most are also very funny.  We were the First to be interviewed, so we’re back in the list a couple of pages.

And come see us and join the party!

Grapevine Convention Center
1209 South Main Street
Grapevine, TX 76051

• 8:30am-6:00pm Friday, April 8
• 8:30am-6:00pm Saturday, April 9
• 8:30am-4:00pm Sunday, April 10

Mark your calendars, set your phone alarms, put a sticky on the bathroom mirror and tie a ribbon around your finger!

On April 2nd the Artful Bead in Carrollton is having a lampwork trunk show!   Meri of Fire and Sand Studio is bringing it to us!

Like this!!!  and also like this!  They seem to be covered in sugar crystals!

and just for Easter – Voila!!

Yes, he is absolutely adorable, and you can’t tell how cute his face is either.  Trust me, it’s waaaaayyyy cute!

Plus lovely things along these lines:

That’s a hat on the right.  Like a witches hat – wonderful.  The face is cute too.  But she already has a hat.

And she brought a bunch by to visit us last week, and she has…  (omg-omg-omg!) SOCK MONKEYS!!!  Yes!  Freakin’ PRECIOUS sock monkey beads!  No, we don’t have pictures, we don’t want to cause a riot.  Yes, we have warned her that we want LOTS of sock monkeys for earrings, so we can all be in the Fire and Sand Sock Monkey Earring Club.

And NO, it isn’t April Fools!

See you Saturday the 2nd, 10:00AM.

PS – I have messed with it 5 times trying to get my words arranged the way I want them around the pictures, and it just ain’t happening today.  Sorry.  Just look at the pretty beads and think about sock monkey earrings.

If you bought the Groupon Coupon for the Beginning Earring class, please call the store where you plan to take the class (Fort Worth – 817-294-2903, Carrollton 972-242-8949) to sign up.  You can refer to the online class calendar for times and dates, but unfortunately many of the Sunday classes  in February and March are already full.

We will be extending the dates for the coupons, and will have more late (after 5) classes during the week in April, especially in Carrollton.  We will also be adding several Saturday classes.

If you have a group of 4 to 7 that want to take the class together, please give us a call and we will work out a private class for you. 

Thank you for buying our class, and we hope to see you soon!

If you’re interested in knitting with beads, check out the new class series in Carrollton!  Alissa, AKA The Knitting Fairy will be doing three classes to teach you everything about knitting with beads and make sure you know where you’re going on the two projects.  And the entire series is only $45!!! 

These classes require you to already know how to cast on, knit, and purl, so if you don’t already know how, please contact Alissa at The Knitting Fairy for beginning classes.

Oh, come’on, everybody needs help sometimes. That’s why we’re having our new “The Joy of Being Random” classes. In fact, there is one in Fort Worth on Saturday (the 23rd) and two in Carrollton this Sunday (the 24th)! Check the schedules for exact times.

The Joy of Being Random is a one-hour design seminar on how to break yourself out of the “big bead, little bead, big bead, little bead” box. How to make great necklaces and bracelets that go with more things, look more professional, and don’t look like you borrowed them from Aunt Mildred. (Sorry, Aunt Mildred, but you wear boring jewelry made mostly of plastic…) We won’t be making a bracelet or anything, just giving you a million and one ideas. These $10 classes just packed with information.

And if you have a piece that you’ve been stuck on, bring it with you, we’ll help break through the design wall.

There are plenty of spots left, but sign up soon!

This weekend we were reminded again how important it is to sign up for classes as soon as possible. On the morning of a class, two people called to sign up.  Unfortunately,when the teacher called the day before to see how many people were signed up, there weren’t any.  Most of our teachers require at least two students for each class, so the class was cancelled.

If those two had just called even one day before, everyone would’ve been happier.

If you sign up for a class and find out you can’t make it, just give us a call at least 24 hours in advance, and we’ll transfer your payment to another class, or give you store credit.