We’re back home and unpacked from the largest convention we’ve ever attended, and it was exciting!

Special thank you’s to everyone who stopped over, very special thank you’s to those who bought something and VERY VERY special thank you’s to the many people who came over and told us that we were the best bead booth they’ve ever seen at any convention! There were at least nine other bead sellers at this convention alone, so that means a LOT!

We set up the biggest booth ever this time around, and we still didn’t have room to display many of our items for sale

Was sad to see some of it go, but I know the art went to good homes.
Now back to work! Only 7 weeks until AniMinneapolis!

After packing everything in the car, driving several hours, checking into our hotel and setting up the booth we are finally ready at Acen! Come see us at booth #74!

Here’s a map of the Artist’s Alley side of the Hall, the blue booth is Black Belt Beads. This place is HUGE and there are a ton of vendors!

…Did I forget to post this! I was so proud! This thing took 4 or 5 days to finish!

This is Red/Ash’s house from the first Pokemon games!
I don’t even know how many beads this took, but it was quite a bit. Lots of hurt fingers when inserting the “grass” in the “yard”. It stands about 10 inches tall and is about 18 inches wide.

Because I have SOOOO much free time (warning: Sarcasm overload), I’ve decided to re-host every single one of my images. Which means I have to find them all, download them, resize every single one and re-upload them here. I’ve also decided to start watermarking all my images because I’ve seen my images put on other people’s sites and pages, who claim them to be their own. So don’t be surprised if you see broken image links around. This is part of a continued effort to centralize all of this stuff to BlackBeltBeads.com, rather than a forum, a Flickr page, a Facebook page, etc.

Because most of the images are probably broken (haven’t checked around yet, who knows, some may show) I’ll put up a new image of something I recently finished. Viola!

Only a few days until Chicago!

Made for the BSC challenge! Tribute to Egoraptor.

While this took quite a while to put together the first time, I think I’ve got the process down now, and another one might not take that long to make!

A couple of Biggies! Big Boss and Big Daddy!

Another friend of mine had a birthday very recently and I discovered one of his favorite games was Final Fantasy 3 (6 in Japan, 3 in America). I didn’t want to flat out ask him which characters were his favorite, so I made all of them. After they were all made, they looked a little strange by themselves, so the text was added. After that, I knew it all had to be mounted on something, so I got a big sheet of heavy paper, made some framing pieces and glued everything down.

There’s about 8,500 beads in it and it measures roughly 44 inches across and 30 inches down (44″x30″).

Hope he likes it!

Clicking on the picture will bring you to the largest version available, on my Flickr page.

Just a quick update for a look at my newest medium sized piece, Fox McCloud. It’s a birthday present for my brother-in-law, hope he likes it!

2,598 beads