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• mermaids and dragon flies

  
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  the "chain" pieces are all stitched I finished that part yesterday afternoon  they still need to be attached to the mermaid piece and I need to create the loop and toggle, but Im pleased with the progress Im hoping that the charms that I have ordered arrive today so I can start on the fringing the ...
  6 days ago

• tricks of the trade so to speak...

  
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  well tricks of the trade is a figure of speech,but im coming to a situation. im using cuts size 12 and 9 im experiencing more issues with straight lines. does anyone have any suggestions on keeping straight lines in beadwork? my ma always told me beadwork is never perfect because life isnt that way. size 13s i never ...
  1 week ago

• beginning again

  
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  when I ordered the mermaids, I got ten of them a good thing yesterday morning I sent the picture of the first version to my customer, and she felt that it was too dark for what she had in mind okay then, lets try this one which she has already given me the "thumbs up" on so today Ill start on the ...
  1 week ago

• Beaded Headbands?

  
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  For my fancy shawl regalia Im making I was debating what style headband I should bead and what your guys personal preferences are? :) Either the one that sits on top of the head like the girl on the left, a tiara shaped one like the girl in the middle or just a regular beaded head band that goes around the ...
  1 week ago

• Making Over My Beaded Silk Dress

  
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  I found this gorgeous beaded silk dress at a thrift shop years ago and have been saving it for something, but I havent been sure exactly what. Its heavy- both with beads and with the lined silk fabric.  Just gorgeous.  The label says, "Victoria Royal Ltd" made in British Crown Colony, Hong Kong and the other label ...
  1 week ago

• doing the packing chant

  
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  the quilt show came down on Sunday afternoon, which meant that I had quilts that had to go back to their makers yesterday I spent most of the morning sorting, packaging and getting this group all ready to go there are quilts there, and a donation Im making to a charity auction, a box of afghan squares that are ...
  1 week ago

• a shopping trip

  
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  ta da! this is the fabric I picked out to use on the back of the peacock piece -- it is one of the coordinates for this year, but when I was picking fabric for the front of the piece it just didnt fit my design scheme, so I didnt really "see" it it is perfect for the back -- and the facing -- and the sleeve ...
  1 week ago

• A Box Lot from Mom and Old Beat Up Leather Coin Purses

  
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  The other day I got a box in the mail from my Mom.  The box was about the right size to hold some of her wonderful oatmeal raisin cookies, I thought, licking my lips.  But instead of cookies, it was full of old pictures and papers.  Old family pictures (and my high school graduation program) like the picture on ...
  1 week ago

• stitching along

  
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  the green pieces of this project are done now -- I think as I said yesterday, Im doing the color of this on the fly, so I may yet go back and put in more purple or more green, but for now Im going to work with the oranges for a while that order Im waiting for hasnt arrived yet, so until it does Ill just keep ...
  2 weeks ago

• finished work, progress and a rough round trip

  
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  May 1 might seem like an odd time to be finishing up the knitting of a sweater, but its still downright cold here (at least today), so it doesnt feel so odd to me after completely removing the sleeves, ripping them out and re-knitting them, I can at last declare this item FINISHED!! Ill start doing the swatching ...
  2 weeks ago

• starting, stopping, recovering!

  
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  the bezels have all been redone Im ready to start putting it back together, but the new design that has evolved involves adding some crystals to this and Im going to have to order those so while we wait for those parts to arrive, Ive started working on this new Tribute to Gees Bend Quilters bead ...
  2 weeks ago

• Busy, busy, busy

  
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  Hello my friends! I have been non-stop beading and have all kinds of things to share with you today. First of all, I finished the Kaleidoscope challenge for the Etsy Bead Embroidery Guild! I am very pleased with how it turned out. I named it ‘ Electra ‘ for the Swarovski after market finish rivoli and Art 1201 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Beading while pregnant

  
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  im almost 32 weeks along and my bfs mom made me a few things for my outfit and said i shouldnt be doing bead work because it will make my bellybutton ache. my dad on the otherhand said it was fine to do bead work while carrying, just not to dance. but when we go powwow she asks me where my outfit is, lol idk who to ...
  3 weeks ago

• History Lesson: French Beaded Flowers

  
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  Photo by Jeni Sandberg Jeni Sandberg  is a dealer, appraiser and consultant in 20th century design. She has worked in museums, was a Senior Specialist at Christie’s, and also appears on WGBH’s  Antiques Roadshow . She writes about fun objects on  her blog . In this series, she will explore the history of ...
  3 weeks ago

• HAF artist feature -

  
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  This week well be visiting April at Brooklyn Bead Goddess .  As you can guess from the name, April  is Brooklyn NY born and raised, and after watching other glass artists on Coney Island as a child, that was the medium she was drawn too.  Today she expresses her creativity with her lampwork glass beads that she ...
  3 weeks ago

• A Dragon From The North

  
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  I finally made something new, so I reopened the blog for a while. To sum up: There might even be more later.  A whole lot later, to be sure.
  3 weeks ago

• Working in series?

  
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  in the past couple of years I have made (and sold!) these bracelets  yesterday, as I was changing the clasp on the blue one it suddenly dawned on me that this is a series each of these were created with the work of the Gees Bend Quilters as inspiration, and this has been a very successful series in terms of ...
  3 weeks ago

• taking that giant leap

  
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    you may remember these two pieces that I created a while back for about a month Ive been dithering over rather or not to enter them to a call for entries titled Color Wheel of Emotions this morning I got the reminder that the deadline is looming and I had to make a decision so, I entered them ...
  3 weeks ago

• Daisies complete!

  
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  finished this up yesterday I like the finished piece -- its a clean, simple design and I just may try another version of it -- using sunflowers and a different background color -- well see where this will go meantime, Im still waiting for the arrival of the supply package that I need to start on the order for ...
  3 weeks ago

• flowers in projects -- is it spring?

  
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  I spent most of the morning yesterday snoozing in my chair, but by the afternoon I was starting to feel better, so I did some work on this project got two more of the bigger links and another small one added to this piece I realized that I need to come up with a plan for how Im going to add a clasp to this -- Im ...
  4 weeks ago

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