A word from Sylvie...

It's that time of day...  the time when I interrupt your bead-hunk viewing to say stuff.

I promise I'll be quick! 

(maybe... I'll try anyways)

Here's the scoop...  Sylvie needs to pay some bills!  

(seriously)

SO I'm having a sale on my beadwork PDF patterns JUST for my Hey Girl readers.

I have 3 different patterns available and for the rest of this month they will be $5 off for
Hey Girl readers.  You need to enter HEYGIRL as the coupon code (the code will take $10 off... $5 off the item and $5 off for shipping... my cart can't figure out the PDFs are e-mailed not shipped thing).

If you are ordering more than one pattern, you need to place separate orders to get $5 off EACH pattern... it will only give the discount once per order.  Does that make sense?  Hope so!

I have really fun projects and this is one of them...

How cute is that??!!  Right??!  

It's a tiny beaded sweater that you can wear as a pin or on a necklace. 

(make a bunch of sweaters and string them up together like the "clothesline" shown above)  

I've got matching overalls too!!!

Click Here to See the Patterns

If you're a lampworker or someone with a great stash of art beads you're looking to show off, my Halo Necklace or Bracelet is a GREAT pattern.  It's something even a fairly new beader could handle!  (trust me... my sister did this as her FIRST beadwork project... without my help!)

Click Here to See the Patterns

REMEMBER... enter the code HEYGIRL when you check-out!  

Good through 1/31/12

This ends the Sylvie's self-promotion portion of the blog for today.

(and for those of you who haven't sent your Hey Girl entries for the contest... you have till midnight tomorrow night.  The ones I've received have been SO fun to read!!!  Some are FUNNY FUNNY FUNNY and some of ya'll made me blush!)

Hey girl... this is important!

It's that time of day... time for me to distract you from these bead-hunks...

at least momentarily.

Thank you for the out-pouring of e-mail love (and coffee love too!) 

TODAY, I'd like you to show some love to the folks at Beads of Courage.

If you don't know who they are or what they do, click the video link a little way down on the right-hand sidebar.  (you might want to grab a tissue because it's a touching story about how beads can change lives... really!)

Already know about Beads of Courage and want to help?? 

("yes! yes! yes!" you say!!  Because how can you say NO to Bead-hunks AND cute kids??!!)  

Here's what to do...

1.  Buy Beads!  (we're all good at that and they've got some GREAT art beads on their site!) Click here to buy Artist-Made beads from Beads of Courage

2. Give Money!  It takes funds to buy the non-art beads that the kids are given as well as funds to start programs in new hospitals.  Anything you can give will help.  Click here to donate

3.  Give Beads!  

• Artist-made beads are used in the program and given to the kids, follow the guidelines on the B.O.C. site to find out the particulars, but they need LOTS of these.  Info on how to donate Artist-made beads (glass and polymer clay)
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• Need to de-stash?  They take manufactured beads as well to use in other parts of the Arts in Medicine program.  There is information at the bottom this page of their website...Info on How to Donate Beads

Donating beads/funds to Beads of Courage is tax deductible... so it's a WIN WIN!!!

This concludes this part of the blog for today... think of this one like the fund-raising drive for PBS... you know you watch/listen (read the blog)... you KNOW you love the programming (cute guys talking about beads) so give!!!!!

Hey girl...