If you receive my monthly newsletter, you know that I am getting ready for the Spring Bead Bonanza in Southfield, Michigan. I am a bead machine, I think. Of course, after I make the beads and anneal them properly, I have to remove them from the mandrels, clean the bead release out each and every hole, wash them up, put them on the plastic holders, tag them with price and inventory numbers, add them into my inventory sheet, and put them into their trays. Omigosh. It's not that those things are difficult to do, it's just so time-consuming.

Anyway, this bead is a new shape that I've just added to the repertory. Such fun! The flower shapes remind me of spring cherry blossoms. Hope you like it, too.