I like being a beginner. It means I am always learning something new. It is exciting. Once I am no longer a beginner at whatever it is I was new at, I start another new hobby. I call it "Going down a rabbit hole". Now, I tend to jump from one thing to another frequently, and ever since I used that phrase in a conversation with a close friend, she thinks I am going down another rabbit hole when I change up what I am working on at the moment. One day I am knitting, the next I am trying to make a corset , I may spend two days drawing. This - I feel like that is the opposite of going down a rabbit hole.
Rabbit holes take you deep. Somewhere along the lines something catches the eye, and while you are staring at it, you trip and fall headfirst into this yawning darkness of I-don't-know-what-the-hell-I-am-doing. All the sudden, you land (thump) at the craft table with tiny fish bowls filled with seed beads, beading thread, and these obscenely small needles and a sore finger from where you keep stabbing yourself with this bloodthirsty needle, but it is fun and shiny and engrossing. You make a thing. It stares at you. It is just this...thing. You start to wonder what you can do with this thing. Then your brain blossoms into this crazy cacophony of Idea. You praise the god Google for a while, and there is more Idea. Much more. When you sleep, there is the rabbit hole. You dream in color, in shape, in texture. You forget everything you dreamed up because when you take a shower, Idea is there. You end up with incoherent scribbles on paper that never come to fruition because your Idea eclipse your ability and skill level, and most of all your bead stash.
And then out of nowhere...
I like being a beginner. I like my rabbit holes. I probably won't talk about them to much more because this pretty much covers it, but as I add to my beading portfolio, I want to document it, so, Here goes.
A few close ups:
Those "cabochons" are glass stones from the local big box craft store. They were aqua colored, but because I did not have any actual cabochons, I just glues these to some sturdy black fabric, resulting in the black stones pictured. When it is out in the sunlight it has a faint aqua colored shimmer, but nothing like I originally intended. I still love it. The colors are a little more vibrant in person, the gold isn't so washed out.
I was not happy with how the chain turned out. I was going for a netting type look, but because I used some pretty nondescript and uneven beads, the netting was not cooperating, so when I wear this piece, I twist the chain into a rope. Some day I will decide how it should be fixed.
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