MARCH 9: Bronze Suspended Until Further Notice

You love it.  I love it.  These hands and wrists do not.  My usual bronze wire is harder than most wires; this means it is much more difficult to bend, and that can be painfully hard on joints that are persnickety about silly things like…bending.

For a little while, I will have to suspend all bronze work in favor of just Argentium, but only for the time being.  My wonderful supplier and fellow rosary maker is waiting on her source for the newer, softer, much-kinder-to-persnickety-joints bronze.  I guarantee – it will be worth the wait; all good things are!

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MARCH 1: Moving Preparations & Arthritis Flare

Hello friends!  Things are cranking up around here.  We are officially in full swing with preparations for our move from California to Kentucky!  We’ll be saying goodbye to the dry, arid desert and hello to the lush, green pastoral vistas of My Old Kentucky Home – I can’t wait.

To complicate things,  I am having a flare up of my Arthritis which makes it very difficult to hold pliers and bend wire.  Not pleased about this at all.  This has forced me to suspend all new work, except for rosaries that are already in progress.  I don’t like having to suspend(!), but my hands are going numb just sitting here at the computer to type this message.  Hopefully, it’s just a change of season problem and things will be moving well again soon.  The dryness of the desert isn’t kind to Arthritis; for more than one reason, I’m really excited to be getting back to anywhere that’s humid.  : )

God bless!

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JANUARY 27: Supporting Life at St. Paul’s

O Holy Night is no longer available for sale, but if you live close to St. Paul’s in Central Texas, you might be the lucky new owner!  Saturday night, January 30th, you can join this wonderful parish to support the cause of Life, have a great time, and maybe even go home the lucky winner.

God bless you, dear friends, while you’re raising up your Voices for Life!

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JANUARY 9: Current Builds

Our small initial offering of rosaries and chaplets is nearly gone – thank you for your enthusiastic support.  We more than appreciate your business!

We have two rebuilds that we are working on at the moment, and then we will be off and running to build up our inventory.  We’re continuing to work our way through the Joyful Mysteries in the Christus Vitae series, as well as some very exciting and deeply personal pieces, as well as a very special project.  We can’t wait to tell you all about it.

Of special note:  the rosaries and chaplets are selling even faster than anticipated; we encourage you to subscribe to our monthly newsletter, Bead Story, if you’d like to keep in touch with bench news and our latest releases.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, we’d love to hear from you.

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JANUARY 8: New Shopping Cart is Live!

Our new PayPal Shopping Cart is now live.  If you should encounter any sort of difficulty, please contact us immediately so that we may address the issue.  Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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