Chameleon Designs now on Facebook

There is now a page on facebook for Chameleon Designs, and if you pop over and take a look you will see details of a competition I have just set up where you could win flutterballs, all you have to do to enter is "like" the facebook page (which is, I understand in my limited knowledge of facebook, like becoming a fan). The competition is running until next friday 10th September when I will choose a winner at random from all the people who like the page, pop over to facebook for the full information !

Tangled Transfers

Now I dont know about you but I am one of those people who doodles. Pretty much on every available surface, and usually very boring stuff (I would love to be one of those people who creates mini masterpieces in 2 minutes on a serviette at a cafe but alas it is not to be) so when the lovely Julie Fountain of Lush Lampwork recently posted a thread on a forum I visit about a way of doodling called Zentangles I got a bit curious and had to check it out.

Now as some of you may know, on the odd occasional instance it has been known for me to be ever so slightly obsessive in my need for things to be straight and tidy so you can imagine the joy of finding a doodling "system" which encourages me to be as obsessive (or not) as I want and gives options for enforcing rules (this is my way of interpreting it, I am not saying this is the official way, for that, go read their website ;o) ) over my drawings.

Naturally for me the next step was to zentangle a bead -




So there you have it, a doodle bead !!

As Promised

Here is a picture of what I was getting all excited about -



New flutterbies ! Following on from all the comments both at the flame off and online since, about the sample beads I made with the Flutter set of transfers I decided I had to make some of these to sell. I am really pleased with how they have turned out and Im going to make one for me too, when I decide which is my favorite colour, which might take a while !!

They are all two tone so I had lots of fun matching up glass to get the two tones to be two I was happy with for each bead, and the butterfly design is slightly raised to give a bit of a 3D which also nicely magnifies the pattern ! Im hoping to get them online on my website in the morning.