If you are just getting started, you will need the following items to press words into your beads. Texture Base Frame Plates Shape Plates Word Plates Texture Plates (optional)

Zoozii Has A Flickr Group!

March 19: New Tools! I have slimmed down the Straight Sided Lentil line. The curve on the top and bottom surfaces has been reduced to give a slimmer, sleeker look. I have also done something a little different with the trios. There are 2 options. Small contains the standard trio sizes 13, 15, 18mm. The Large option contains the 15, 18, and the 21mm. So now you can select your trios based on what size range you prefer to work with. The XL of the Slim style will be available soon. The tooling has been giving us grief. So if you are interested in that size, you can order it, and I'll email you when I know when they will ship. So for now, consider those tools preorders. But I will update here when they are stocked, so you can order at that time if prefer.

I'm getting inventory of the Inspiration Toolworks tools in the store now, too. I have added the Large Round and Large Oval Mandrels. The Cabochon Mandrels in all sizes are at the welders and I expect to have them up on the site by April 1st, with a full inventory! The Cone and Cap mandrels are being manufactured, but are not here yet, so I don't have a firm date on when they will be listed. The Starfield Disk Mashers are coming, as I know some of you are waiting for them, I'm hoping by the end of April to have a full inventory of them.

3/11 I have had a lot of email trouble. I guess a spambot found me and I'm getting about 200 a night. I think I finally figured out a solution, but in the process deleted almost all my received emails. If you have emailed me and not heard back, please use zoozii[at]zooziis[dot]com (hopefully writing it that way will help my plight), and write again. I am proud to say I am very prompt in my replies to email, so if you do not hear from me it is NOT normal. I write back to EVERYONE, usually within hours, but certainly within 48, unless I'm out of town. So please try me again!

3/10 I haven't updated this is so long. I changed from Internet Explorer to Mozilla Firefox, and the easy website updater that works with IE doesn't work with MF, so I have been much more lazy about updating this.

New Items coming soon.!

We are putting the finishing touches on a couple great new lines of tools. I'm very excited about them. Add to that the Inspiration Toolworks tools that are now part of our line, having bought the rights from Jeff, the designer and former manufacturer of them. We have a lot of fun new tooling options for your glass!

I just taught my first class. The Worcester Center for Crafts invited me to instruct a press class. It was a lot of fun. The students seemed to enjoy it, and they commented that they learned great things to help make much better pressed beads. By the end of the class I was seeing very nicely shaped beads from everyone. Crisp edges and all. It was a wonderful experience and I'm so glad they invited me!

I have a fabulous new item I designed.  I love mine!  It holds a lot, including a cell phone, sunglasses, shopping lists, pens, tissues, a debit card...lots!  And it's cute, which necessity things should be if they possibly can be!   Like the broom I just got for the shipping room that has hot pink bristles and polkadot handle.  Now that makes work fun!  Maybe if your grocery list was cozied up in your car catch-all it would make the prospect of going grocery shopping much more fun...okay maybe not, I make no promises, after all, but wouldn't it be worth the try?

You can get yours here:

Helping Mommy...But I think we need a new dress

code at Zoozii's.  (Eowyn at 5 months old)