Happy thanksgiving :)
My semester is almost done, and I can pay a little more attention to the blog again. The schedule I have been keeping in terms of assignments and tests and dates has been eating up almost any beading time I would normally have, and I include blogging time with my beading time. Because of Thanksgiving, I have had a more normal week, as the deadlines have been pushed back a little.
I am sitting here right now with my keyboard balanced on my beading tray, with this on the mat beneath it:
My semester is almost done, and I can pay a little more attention to the blog again. The schedule I have been keeping in terms of assignments and tests and dates has been eating up almost any beading time I would normally have, and I include blogging time with my beading time. Because of Thanksgiving, I have had a more normal week, as the deadlines have been pushed back a little.
I am sitting here right now with my keyboard balanced on my beading tray, with this on the mat beneath it:
It is part of a necklace I am working on called Seaside Sally. You know the tongue twister that goes; "She sells sea shells down by the sea shore"? Yeah, that. There are curly shells, pearls, sea glass an a bunch of seed beads going into this one.
I hate that I do not have a better camera yet. The colors in the first photo are more true to life, but it really does not capture the colors well enough. My toggle clasps are getting so much better. The ones I made for this project are spot on. I am very happy with how they turned out. they are nice and tight and feel very secure.
As always, projects in this stage excite me greatly. The color palette on this necklace is so far outside my normal range of colors it is almost startling, but I am not designing this one for me at all. This time around I find myself reveling in designing for the sake of it, not to make myself happy, but honestly, it really does. I love this piece so far and am almost lamenting that it does not really fit my larger than average neck. I really cannot wait to see it finished.
I said a while ago that I wanted to get away from statement necklaces for a while because they were time consuming. I am rethinking that idea because I always seem to find myself contemplating the next big project while I work on the current one. What I am planning on pulling out of my hat next is a big endeavor, probably larger than any project I have concocted to date.
I hope everyone has enjoyed their Thanksgiving day. Please pause for a minute, and just love those around you. Family is one thing that makes a person truly rich.
Until next time, Happy beading!!
