Does anyone know if it’s much more expensive to post overseas from the US and Canada?

Regarding the bead exchange idea. BIG vote in favor of that! It would be so cool if one or two of you would orchestrate, or take turns managing the distribution side of the project. I’ll definitely help with publishing announcements and posting follow up pictures here at the blog.

As far as I’m concerned, the more community stuff like this that can happen, the funner this place gets to be.

@Melinda – I know, isn’t it wonderful! I just had to share! I’ve already spent hours on it creating my own colour palettes. You can look at all of mine here colourlovers.com/palettes/search?lover=silverleaf79 . You can even make messages with the colours like my “Insomnia” palette – the names of the colours spell a sentence.

@Anna Sabina – I think we should do it! It can’t be too difficult to organise even if we have participants in different countries. It just needs someone to pick a palette and someone to be the “central organiser” person that everyone sends beads to for redistribution. Would love to see your beads!

One thing to always keep in mind is that the color of the clay samples in my photographs are just “close renditions” of the actual color. It is actually not possible for me to provide the “exact representation” of each color for you on your monitor screen. This is due to the fact that all of our computers are calibrated so differently. The only way to see the true color is to follow the mixing instructions I provide with the downloadable recipe cards, and then attach the polymer color chips to the your recipe index cards.

On a related note, another member had asked about the possibilities of coloring the “sample dot” on the downloadable recipe cards. You can follow the link by my name for more information about this topic.

THE PROBLEM WITH LINKS IN COMMENTS: In regards to posting links in the comments section here at my blog, it’s best to go the old-fashioned route. Unfortunately, “live links” in comments are can be interpreted as “spam” by many blogs (not just mine). This is because “real spammers” are notorious (and ruthless) in their attempts at posting unwanted links whenever and wherever they can. And the worst part is, the “good people” (like you Silverleaf) get wrongly accused of being a spammer because of how the automated scripts and filters work on legitimate blogs like mine. Hopefully that makes sense.

If ever you want to embed a cool app (like this Google Map for example), the best approach is to first post your text message and then email me separately with the embed code for the application or link. Doug, my DH admin guy, will insert the code manually (and safely) from our end.

I hope you don’t mind, I’ve been creating your palettes at colourlovers.com (I have credited you and linked back to your site each time) so I can see all the palettes together on one page. Colourlovers is a great site by the way, full of inspiration and beautiful colour combinations.

Wouldn’t it be fun to do a bead swap based on one of Cindy’s palettes? I’d love to see what people would come up with!

Oh and that reminds me, Cindy’s UK Girls are having another meetup (and a bead swap as well!) in Birmingham – we’re going to the big craft show at the NEC on the Friday 6th November. We will meet at the glass entrance to the glass-surrounded garden in the centre of the NEC complex at 11am (so people can look around earlier if they wish) on Friday 6th November. So far me, Penny, Angela and Rachel are going to be there, and it would be fantastic to meet some new people as well! Can anyone else make it?