Out With The Old, In With The New

My motto for this week has been to start going through my beads and string them all up for sale. I have so many beads! It was actually fun going through them one by one. Memories of why I may have made a certain bead or, what was I thinking when I made these, filled my head.
The best thing is seeing how much I've grown in my beadmaking skills.
My dots are more evenly spaced, my use of color combinations has grown, and I am stepping out of my comfort zone more.

So today I sit here and wonder......
Should I make more beads? Should I keep my promise and sell what I have before making new beads? I think I need to just go with where my heart is. If I feel like torching, just do it. The problem lies in wondering what to make. I still struggle with that. What colors, what shape, what design...all fill my head until I'm overwhelmed to the point where I won't make anything.
So today, I think is going to be a day of going through glass colors and getting inspired. Pull out the magazines and look at nature and all the pretty colors that flow through it. Nature doesn't sit there and go, "Okay we have a yellow flower here so now we need a coordinating color to go with it!" Nature just sprouts colors among colors and it works!

Time to play like nature does!
Here's a few of my beads from this week.

 My Happy Beads. These always cheer me up! Mix up some bright colors with other bright colors and all you can do is smile :-)

 Dirty Martini and blues. Opaque and transparent blues turn these flowers into a painting. One of my favorite combinations.

Summer means "turquoise" and I make enough turquoise and ivory beads every summer. It's my go to color when I can't think of anything else. It's also one of my best selling combinations. You could use red, yellow or everyone's favorite, orange with turquoise and they come out pretty every time!