I am going to interview Heather Bennett, an amazing beadwork artist. You can see her work at https://heatherbennettstudio.com/. I will post the link for the interview on Thursday. Premium and VIP members can join the call live and submit questions during the interview. If anyone has a question they want to ask, but can't make the call live, go ahead and post it here. The video will be accessible to everyone.

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Glad I practiced on myself! I learned that Skool Webinar is not going to cut it. 🤪 You will notice that the video freezes in a few spots about 2/3 of the way in. Luckily the audio keeps going, but there's nothing I can do about the video glitches because it's in the source file I got from Skool. I appreciate any feedback/comments, you can be honest with me. 😁 You can always send me a chat if you want your comment to be private. I really do appreciate all of your support. I have a little work to do on my youtube channel and I won't release it as a podcast until I get a couple more interviews. If you watch the video on youtube, I'd appreciate a like on the video. Might as well start promoting the channel! 🥰

Since I finished my zigzag bracelet, I'm looking for another project. I'm looking at all of these beautiful free patterns - International Bead Week, Deb Roberti's around the Beading Table - and I just get so overwhelmed! I see a project I'd be interested in, then I think - "Do I have all of the beads I'm going to need, will colors I have look good together, am I going to have to order something? etc, etc. I just scroll through all of the projects, get overwhelmed and go watch TV! Is this why people like bead kits? All of the decision making is removed and the project shows up. You don't have to worry about not having a bead and you know exactly what it's going to look like with the beads provided. Not, gee, I don't have any red 4mm bicones, I wonder how it will look with orange ones?

As I hinted at previously, I am changing the monthly Q&A to a "Podcast Format". There is a lot involved with this, especially since I will do video and post it on Youtube. My goal is to be able to attract interesting people from the beading world to interview and discover what goes on behind the scenes. Tonight will be a practice session so that I can practice the process before I start inviting guests. It will be a mock interview of myself. I will be talking about how I started the WEB site, got into the bead board business and eventually started this community. It will be webinar format which means anyone logging in to it will not be on video or audio. Your role is to let me know how the video and audio look and to ask any questions you have through the chat. I will not be offended if you don't logon tonight, the replay will be available. 😁 Also, I will be running tests today. Skool does not give me the option to put it in the banner at the top of the community. You may see a banner that says "Linda is live now" or "Test is happening in 15 minutes". Just ignore these banners. The webinar is at 6pm central time tonight. 30-45 minutes.