WSS Introduction
Thank you for visiting our website. We are Bill McQuilkin and Melissa Perry McQuilkin and we make all of our beads in our studio in rural Maine. I have been making beads for quite some time now and have been a full-time career beadmaker since 1998. Bill began a couple of years later. Both of us have taken a break to pursue other ventures but have found ourselves back at the torch more often lately. If this is your first time here, I hope you will enjoy our beads and will come back frequently.
On this page, you'll find our daily ramblings...today's entry in the Bead Journal. The journal seems to be a well-liked feature of the website. People seem to like hearing about us and our mundane life. I'll be the first to admit we lead a pretty boring life...but we live in an old turn of the century farmhouse that people love hearing about. We have a german shepherd that people love hearing about. So even though our journal will bore some of you to sleep, others will come back daily to see what's going on in our corner of the universe.
This isn't one of those fancy blog pages that archives our journal...this is one of those what you see is what you get type of journals. Want to know what I did a week and half ago? Scroll down to the bottom of the Journal Page and if you're lucky, the journal for that day may still be there, otherwise you are just S-O-L (shit outta luck!). Surely you won't expect us to recall what we did a week and a half ago, I can hardly recall what happened yesterday and Bill can hardly remember something I told him five minutes ago. So if you're interested, keep reading...below is today's journal entry:
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April 12 , 2010
Where did all the warm weather go? It's been really cold here! We went from 80 degree days to mid 40s. I guess that's what I get for thinking about planting my garden.
After some serious pondering we have decided to cut down on our listings on eBay . We will be posting there periodically but will focus on our website, Etsy and Artfire for the time being.
We are adding a shopping cart to the site and will be posting numerous items for sale. There will be weekly specials and a page for discounted items.
Be sure to check out our site often for new beads, journal entries and sales we may be having. We again urge anyone interested in recieving word on our sale to sign up for our newsletter above.
March 29 , 2010
We would like to thank everyone that purchased beads from our Spring Cleaning Sale that we held this past weekend. Thank you!
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