No White Christmas! What's Next!

Hiya everyone to the last post this year!  I hope that you all had a great Christmas and have a safe and happy New Years.  Don't forget, if you go out to celebrate that you get home safely, and use a designated driver please.  I don't want to lose any of you as followers.  LOL

I hope that you all got what you wanted for Christmas.  I got 2 awesome homemade gifts.  My son made me a cutting board in shop class and I love it.  I actually thought it was a store bought one.  It looks so professional!  I LOVE it.  I cried and he was like, "Mom!  What's wrong?"  Needless to say he could not understand why I would cry that he made me something.  LOL  Kids!  Me and my kids got homemade glasses from my brother and sister in-law.  They are all personalized with our names and designs on them.  We all loved them!  So cool!  As you can see mine says Tina Bug!  That is what my brother has called me forever!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!  Did any of you get something awesome for Christmas?

Also this week over at Every Inchie Monday the last theme of the year is Next.  My first thought was those little number things that you have to pull when you go to the DMV.  Don't you hate when you go to the DMV and your number is 63 and they secretary is on number 31!!!  ARG!!!!  So that is where this came from.  For this one I used 3 colors of delicas and I like how it came out.

Also this week is the last twinchie over at 2x2x2 is White.  So for this one for some reason I went to the white things I HATE instead of love.  I guess it was easier than trying to design things that I love.  Anyways, for this twinchie I made a spider web with a black widow spider on it.  I mean I used to have arachnophobia, but now I am not bad with that but I always worry about walking into a spider web.  I mean talk about becoming an instant break dancer!  Not many things are worse than walking into one of those and then trying to free yourself!  ACK!  So here is my twinchie, I used 4 colors of Delicas.  I really love the geometric look of this.

 Also this week I finished a piece for the Dry Gulch December Challenge I am super excited for this necklace. I love the look of it.  I actually thought I would not like it.  If you are not familiar with Dry Gulch Challenge it is a monthly color challenge and you have to use all of the colors in the challenge.  first place wins a $50 gift certificate and second place wins a $25 gift certificate to the Dry gulch online bead store.  If you have not checked it out or entered it, please do.  It has really stretched my design abilities and color matching wits!  Like I said earlier I was not sure I would like the color schemes for this month but I really LOVED this!

 I used handmade lamp work beads made by Tanya McGuire. Check her out, her beads are awesome and hand made.  I also used white jade faceted rondelles, teal crystal disks, small glass pearl seed beads, small brick red rondelles, small barrel shaped red swarovski crystals, and rose quartz heshi beads.  I really like the look of this and the colors together looks awesome.

Well, that is it for me for this year!  I can't believe that this year is almost over.  ALMOST OVER!  Wow!  I pray for blessings over all who are reading this and a blessed next year for you all.  If you want to have a fun design challenge for yourself think about joining EIM, 2x2x2, or Dry Gulch.  I know you will have fun.  Trust me on this!

Have a blessed and creative rest of the year my friends.