It's Day 2 of the Bead Sparks retreat and today was just as crammed as yesterday and I think everyone started the day tired from the full day, and evening, we had yesterday.

One fun part of planning the retreat was deciding on all the extra gifts etc to give out. As well as the goodie bag and raffle prizes each day (we made sure everyone won one) us teachers gave extra gifts and each day the students also got some extra gifts either from us or kind supporters.

Friday's extra gift that greeted everyone at the start of class was a goodie bag from Swarovski with some crystal samples, a gorgeous sparkling tassel keyring and some wonderfully coloured DeLite Rivolis.

As I knew everyone was getting the Rivolis one of my gifts was detailed instructions on bezelling them so that everyone could go home and use them.

My other gift was instructions for my carrier bead & tassel necklace... which would be more relevant to everyone on Sunday.