OK, I'll admit this is not exactly the first time I've blogged. I played with it a long time ago on MySpace and didn't do enough to really get the hang of it. So I'm officially declaring myself a "newbie". My purpose for this blog site is to get used to talking about my beaded and other art. It's a type of marketing technique, from what I've read. Maybe, just maybe I can learn it!
I might also talk about Bear now and then. He's my very large, 3 1/2 yr. old Manx cat who has managed to create situations that lead to interesting stories quite often. When he was just a kitten, I had several stories a week. I should have learned how to blog back then! Now that he's a bit older, the stories are less frequent. He's maturing into more of a laid-back personality, but he still has his interesting quirks. As I'm typing this, he's trying to get my attention because he wants to go outside. He understands the words "outside" and "walk" as well as any dog and he only goes outside on a harness & lead, accompanied by me. I've met most of my neighbors due to the unique sight of a cat on a lead, as well as that cat being a very big, solid black cat with no tail. People remember his name even if they don't remember mine!
I've been working with beads to make jewelry for about 10 years. My original bead collection was started in the 70's when I was making macrame' wall hangings & plant hangers. The little box with the meager collection of wood and ceramic beads got tucked away and moved around with me for the next 15-20 years. The box was pulled out sometime in the 90's when I made custom dream catchers one year for Christmas gift giving. The contents of the little box grew into one of those plastic, divided craft keepers. Again, the box was put away. An article about making earrings was the catalyst to cause me to pull out the bead box & was the next step in my ladder to full-fledged bead addiction. That one little box has grown into a collection in many plastic containers that take up quite a bit of space in my spare room.
Currently, the beading project I'm working on is one of many UFO's (unfinished objects) I have accumulated over some time. I've had the seed bead colors picked out for at least a year & a half to go with the pendant I purchased about 3 years ago. The goal: to make a neck chain to go with the pendant. I first started working up a herringbone stitch rope with the beads, but found the results to be slow. I changed up to working with a St. Petersburg stitch and am really liking the results.
I am not having any luck with posting photos on this blog site yet. When I get it figured out, I'll share photos along the way when I can. Thank you for reading! Hope I can learn to make it interesting!
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