Hope you all had a festive holiday season,
topped off with a giggly new year,
surviving a decade of Y2K.

I am proud to announce that my third book, Chain and Bead Jewelry Geometric Connections, is in progress at the Watson-Guptill publishing company to be released in November 2010. This new book continues my exploration into cold-connecting beaded chain jewelry designs that I began in my first and second books, expanding my published repertoire into a sophisticated series of geometry-inspired shapes and patterns.

As with the 2nd book, I am offering the options to reserve a signed copy or pre-purchase now and receive free shipping world-wide when it releases in November 2010.

I have recently posted five new ‘click-through’ chain tutorials for your educational entertainment. Within the upcoming 3rd book, I will be using a Single Chain, and a Jens Pind Chain. From the 2nd book's projects, I am posting tuorials on the Beaded Infinity Chain, European 4-1 Rombus, and the Japanese 12-1 Triangle patterns. If any of you have the time, I would deeply appreciate any feedback of these tutorial's effectiveness - thanks.

Hoping to be a paperback writer I have finished a 48-page travel novel, entitled International Aries, about my adventures sailing to South America.

Plumlee-International Aries.pdf

I am posting a three-page excert PDF of the manuscript. If any of you have the time, I would deeply appreciate any feedback as this copy goes to my editor - thanks.

Take care my friends, may your path be paved in gold and enlightened by bliss, sdp.

Copyright © 2010 Scott David Plumlee, all rights reserved. Author photo credit : Anne-Sophie Lenoir.