Day 7

I am going to have to keep up the blogging. It has been 7 days in a row, so I am on a roll. To today I am going to start out with a quote that I received in my e-mail this morning.
Quote of the day:
'Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby. If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal. If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her. So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit.'

I thought to myself, how true, how true.
Anyway I am here to show you yet another design. It is a piece I made about 5 years ago. It is a combination of 2 drop peyote and a square stitch. As you can tell my inspiration was the button I used as the clasp. What other does a frog do but jump from one Lilly Pad to another.
Like I said, I did this about 5 years ago, and that was when I was first experimenting with off loom weaving. It has faded a lot since I made it and I will have to redo it. I had used the Toho Treasures in a metallic, and it didn't hold the color very well. I will look around and see if I can find another metallic green that is 'permanent'. Not sure I really trust that word when it comes to metallic seed beads.






The lady that owns the the shop where I will do a wire class, called me yesterday wanting to know the price of the pendent at was hanging on the class wall. I told her that I hadn't priced it out, but it belonged to her. I had used her supplies to create it so it really belonged to her. Well, she sold it for what I thought was under-priced, but it belonged to her. She sold it for $40.00, I would have sold it for a little more, but she is not I. Anyway now I need to make another one for the wall. I will go to the store today to use her supplies and make another similar to that one. Here is the picture of the one sold.

DAY 6

Well, I woke up this morning, with the feeling that I needed to blog. The habit is forming!
Today I will show you something I just made last week. It was one of those things that I just had to do.
I am a self taught beader, and the first stitch I taught myself was the peyote stitch, and I always seem to go back to it when I am frustrated, to no end. It just has a way of making me relax, and forget about the rest of the world. And I just felt the need, to do something I could do in my sleep.
I had these beads for sometime, and when going through all my beads to select the beads, these just spoke to me saying, "use me, use me". :) So I used size 8/0 seeds, 3mm Czech Firepolished, and Swarvoski buttons.
I really didn't know what I was going to create when I selected the beads, I just let them tell me. I guess I may be consider a little crazy listening to what beads have to say :). This is what I came up with.
I didn't put the fringe in the under part of the closure, to not have extra bulk there. I have to say, I am well pleased with the results.

Wow, Day 5 of my Challenge to Blog Everyday.

Here I am again, and it day 5 of my challenge to blog everyday for at least two weeks, to set a habit.
Today I will share with you a ring I made. I got the directions from 'Off The Beaded Path' in Forest City NC. I did change the shank from what she did, but she said to put the kind of shank on it that you wanted. If you are interested in this ring you can go here and watch the video. When you go to this site, on the left side of the screen you will see a box that says You-Tube. Click on it and she has several different videos. This ring is called 'Oval Ring'. I did change the base beads from a clear Fire Polished to a color closest to your crystals. That way they really become invisible.
So I must stay within copyright rules and tell you I made the ring, but the designer was Kelly at Off The Beaded Path. Thank you Kelly for the tutorial video.
I just now noticed a mistake on the ring base. So don't look too close. LOL Now everyone will be examining the ring base to see my mistake. I am human I make mistakes, but most of the time I can fix it. I just didn't notice it till I posted the picture LOL.

Wow! day 4 and I'm still blogging.

Well, here I am again. Making good on my promise to keep bogging.
Today I am going to share with you some thoughts about my Great Grand Daughter. Yes, that would be the oldest child of my Grand daughter.
Now, she is 7 going on 16. What a hoot she is. She is extremely bright, just like her Mom. Not to mention cute as a bug. Although she is only in the 1st grade she is reading at a 6th grade level. Says she wants to be the President when she grows up. I see Harvard in her future.
Now she has always been very athletic. She was climbing the rock wall at the park since she was 3 years old.
Well, yesterday in gym class, her teacher told the class that they were going to climb the robes as high as they could. She than, told her teacher, well that will be a piece of cake. LOL Then her teacher just had to ask her, why she thought that climbing the robes was going to be a piece of cake. She replied, that it was because, she was half girl and half monkey. The teacher than turn to say something to someone else, and when she turned back, my little monkey was at the top of the ropes.
When I talked to her on the phone this morning, she said after she got to the top of the rope, she looked down and actually got a little scared. I asked what she did when she got scared, and she replied, I just closed my eyes for a moment and told myself I could make it down, not to worry.
Tomorrow I will share with you another of my pieces I have made.
Cheers, and happy beading.

Day 3

Well, this is my third day in a row for posting on my blog. I can tell, I am already feeling the habit in the making.
I promised last night that I would be back, and post before 10:30 pm. Well it's 11:52 am so I made it with flying colors.
I will show you three pieces of wire wrapping that I did. I have been dabbling in wire sculpture for a little while now, but up till the last few pieces, I didn't think they where good enough to show off. So what do you think of these three pieces? The second piece may look like gold, but it was actually done in Sterling Silver like the first one. This third piece is done in copper wire. I was able to buy some square, and half round copper wire and I just had to give it a try.
Happy beading till tomorrow.

Sunday, second day in my making of a habit.

Today was a beautiful and warm day. I meant to blog earlier this evening, but things got in the way of what I wanted to do.
I want to show you another item I made, I made it in February, I just never got around to posting it here on my blog spot. This is actually my third embroidery piece. It really was fun and I am learning more with each new piece I make. I named it 'Midnight Surf '.
I have started a new one, a pendent, but I haven't gotten too far on it, I sort of got bored with it to some degree. I will finish it when I decide what type of necklace I will attach it to.
Okay, I will see you again tomorrow. Hopefully before 10:30 pm. I will have to dig up yet another design to show you tomorrow. I have plenty that I have finished lately.
Night all, and happy beading.

How time flies by

I can't believe its been so long since my last post.
Although I haven't made an appearance here in a while, I have been very busy making things to add to my blog spot.
This is just one thing that I have been busy with. I will be teaching a wire work class at Raisin River Beads on the 16th of this month. That is if I get some students. I have one that has prepaid for the class and I will give her my all if she is the only one that shows up. Here is the picture of the bracelet I will teach.
Back in February we had a ice storm that played havoc with our power. We lost power for 3 days, and when it came back on I had lost my large screen TV, the digital controls for my oven, a portable DVD player, which my grandson was watching at the time of power outage. And the worst lost was the hard drive in my desktop computer. All my written directions for anything I ever designed was written up on that computer. So I had to sit down and rewrite the directions for this bracelet. What a drag, I actually had to redo the whole process, to make sure I had all the measurements correct. That will teach me not to have a hard copy of everything I do.
I have lots more to show you, but I will add a little each day. That way I will have something to say tomorrow. And who knows if I can blog each day for two weeks that should set a habit.
So see you tomorrow with something new and exciting.
Hmmm, what will I post a picture of next?
Till tomorrow.
Bead happy!!