I have been over-taken by beading. My quilting has really suffered and I need to find a way to reignite my passion for it again. But, the beads, the beads!!!!! I have been working at a bead store in Rice Lake, WI called Happy Beading Bead Gallery. I am so lucky to work with someone that I both admire and enjoy being with. Getting paid to bead and create is just amazing. I have several charity quilts that I need to get finished and out the door and I'm promising that come August I will get back to them. My beautiful niece, Haylee has been a frequent visitor and she is a beading bug too so we spend our weekends in the studio playing. She will be going back to North Carolina in August and then I will get back to the grindstone.