Happy Holidays Everyone , We want to thank everyone for all there support of CattWalk! We are happily overwhelmed with the response to our new Stamps. Now to our news....Fred, Catt, Miss Pebbles and CattWalk will be moving in a few months from New Jersey to Missouri. Normally when we're at shows or away, Gina, Fred's Daughter does my shipping and emailing. Gina had an accident at work with the kick press and crushed her finger so she is unable to fill in for us, therefore, we are closing down the shipping department through the Holidays to drive out to Missouri and get the shipping room stripped of it's wallpaper, sanded, painted and ready for the move. You can still place your order through the website but know that it won't ship out until we return on Jan. 4. Thanks so much for your patience and understanding . Here are a few pictures of our new home, a house built in 1895.

Have a Happy Holiday and a Happy and Healthy New Year Everyone We'll be back in 2008 with the rest of the promised new Stamps....one being my favorite of all the Stamps .

Rocio and Ron have also published a new book (Rocio, The Art of Beads Volume One) with instructions on how to bend beads and several other projects. 

Catt, with a little help from Miss Pebbles, pulled a name out of the hat so, drum roll please…Congratulations to Jodi Henry!  Your beads will be displayed next to the Daisy Press you used in our Tool Catalog with a link to your web site. 

Catt, with a little help from Miss Pebbles, pulled 2 names out of the hat so, drum roll please…Congratulations to Sarah Hornik and Jennifer Wood!  Your beautiful beads will be displayed next to the presses you used in our Tool Catalog with a link to your web site.

Sarah Hornik used the Graduated Lentil press:

AND Jennifer Wood used the Rectangular Puffy Pillow press"

We’re back from the Gathering and we had a wonderful time!  It was so nice to meet so many people and put faces to names.  We will add a link with pictures from the trip soon. 

We are producing tools and shipping out orders that were placed while we were away as fast as we can.  Your patience is greatly appreciated and we should be caught up with orders in about a week.

CattWalk is headed to the Gathering!!!

Yes, it's that time of year...we're on the road again, this time all the way to Kansas City, MO. for the ISGB Gathering. We can't wait to see new faces and all the old familiar faces. Make sure you stop by and say Hello.  :-) 

The production and shipping dept. will be closed from Wed. July 12 through Wed. July 26. Any orders placed in this time period will be filled and shipped when we return. Tools will be shipped in the order in which they were received. We will make every effort to ship as fast as possible when we return. I will have my laptop with me so if time permits I will answer emails. Thanks so much for your understanding and patience.

Did anyone notice?  There are new tools up!  Yes, it's been a while since there's been an update to the Scratching Post.  You've been keeping Catt busy!  But now that Tucson is behind them and inventory is restocked, Fred's on a roll again.  For now, you can get the Rectangular Puffy Pillow and a couple really nice large Crunches.  Not only longer, but wider too.  Check out this bead!  You might not be able to tell from the picture but it is nice and big but sleek and slim at the same time because it's the Crunch shape!

C'mon, you know you want one....tool that is.  :o)

Oh, and how could I forget to let you get in on seeing these two cuties:

I've been itchin' but I ain't been scractchin'.  Today I shifted into high gear and am bringing you some new tools.  the Tabulator, the Column, and four different sizes of the new Tumble Tile. 

And another new favorite of mine.  Yes, the smaller cavity of the Marquis.  In my new wire-wrap bracelets I'm finding that I can use 3 of these easy-to-make beads to get a whole bracelet and perfect matching earrings too. 

I think that's enough for today.  I promised Catt I'd showcase some of the beads and there you go....CattWalk shapes done up in Bead Nerd style.

Enjoy!

Here are the results of my forming tray testing yesterday.  I think the one in the back is a serious contender for 'ugliest color scheme in a bead for 2005.'  Isn't that going to be a new Guide?  I've never made and end of the day bead and that was my attempt.  I thought I might get lucky.  I guess that's what happens when you make an end of the day bead in the middle of the day...it just doesn't work.

All three of these beads came from the same tool. The left bead measures 28mm x 21mm x 14mm.

Below is another tool made in the larger brass size...these are honkin' big to me and part of the reason why I only made it through 2 tools yesterday.  They take a good amount of glass.

These are straight pressed with different initial footprints.  One of the nice things about the forming trays, like the crunches is that you can make your beads any length you want.

The one shown in the right here is a more accurate representation of the shape you can get when pressing...it has a tapered wing on the edge.  The one on the left, I used less glass and marvered what was left of the wing back in.

You can see that they're two very different beads but both formed in the same way.  Now I'm going to have to muster up the courage to get enough glass on the mandrel again so I can show you what it does when you roll in it like the other beads above. 

Stay tuned...more coming tomorrow!

You know you're in trouble when you open box 1 of 2 from CattWalk and this is what you see.  If you're new to CattWalk, I'm Lori, the main tool tester and I receive boxes regularly of new tools to test to make sure that they're the easiest to use and a 'winner' before they're brought to you for sale.

Well, this is what I got today.  That only means that there are accompanying tool bottoms in the other box.  You may be excited to know that but not as excited as I am to see what is in the other box!  I'll show you some beads tomorrow!

Today's beads here aren't from a new tool, per se, but those that I've had around and haven't gotten to testing.  All of these beads came from the same tool.  Looooove it!  oooo.  But then again, I always like those tools that let you do more than one thing with them....Roll in it, press in it  roll and press in it.  You get the picture.   

I have so many of these to test that I didn't know where to start so I just dove in with these and I'm happy to say that I think they are successful.

You may have already seen Kaye Husko's version of the Rectangle Puffy Pillow in a couple of her auctions because we've been getting requests from people who know about it already. 

We were really excited to introduce the slim version of the Princess Cut for its sleekness in laying against the skin but as we went deeper, literally, we grew more excited and we found out what the X-Deep version can do. 

They remind me of little treasure chests or double pyramids.  (I have another set of artist's beads to put up too...hi Darlene!...so watch for more here).