crystalballs

I have lived most of my life in Maryland and now live down the street from my childhood home with my 18 year old daughter Mackenzie and our two bunnies we ended up calling momma and baby. We love to travel and are trying to make it to all 50 states, my daughter is doing much better at it than I am, oh to be young again!!

I love to read but find very little time to these days. I mostly look at my japanese, german, french, thai and now Italian(from bettinastar!!!!!) bead book. I have also been lucky enough to get bead magazines from South Africa and England

Beads beads and more beads. I think I own every Swarovski crystal ever produced. I own my own bead shop and have made it very kid friendly bead shop with beads that you can scoop out and put into test tubes and since it's going to be called Bead Soup and I have a large soup bowl with scoopable beads. I actually have an art degree so I love anything crafty and if I had to pick a second favorite it would be paper crafts, we have loads and loads of paper. And rubber stamps, we like the animated stamps, animals, seasons and have lots of flowers. I just love paper crafts and though I am not so good at making cards and boxes I do love when other people make them. And cupcakes, real, beaded, stickers, stuffed and t-shirts, you name it we look for it. We collect t-shirts that have food themes, Peeps, Twisted Pretzels, Frownie Brownies, Hersheys.....

Anthing asian, food, candy, bead books, stickers and especially writing paper. Anything with those cute bubbly looking characters, well basically anything that is cute and the majority of their items are. Did I mention sweets........ We both love citrus colors like lime green, orange, bright yellow and fuschia. My daughter tends to like blue alot more than I do unless you make it turquoise We collect all type of foreign sweets, chocolates and cookies from Germany, sprinkles from the Netherlands, gummies/chewy candy from Japan We LOVE chocolate!!! Ummmm....well, just about any kind of candy I guess. Our house is a tell tale sign of that and everyone loves to come over and try new things though my daughter likes sour things and I do not. Cupcakes, anything with a cupcake on it and the real thing too, when we travel we look for bead, scrapbooking and cupcake shops. I have my beaded cupcakes in an edible cupcake shop in Annapolis, Maryland. Dislikes for food and candy swaps-anything coffee flavored, no black licorce or anything with an odd gelatin texture though, we love gummies but no gummies with salt on them

Wishlist Bento box and cute supplies Any kawaii items (no skulls though) foreign candy (no licorce or coffee flavors) beads from around the world-so far I have Japan, Italy, Africa, France, Australia and now Switzerland too. bead books from around the world(doesn't matter that I can't read them, they usually have incredible drawings) cupcake items especially cupcake beads, notebooks and stickers