BEADS!
NEW!!!!
These are more beaded beads I've made. A few of them are recent, a few of them are from the fall. The one red and green one on the cord Was the first one I completed. I just never took a photo of it until now. On the right here is the largest of the beads on a cord around my neck. If you look closely you can probably imagine my cleavage or something you sick bastard stop looking!
These two fish I made over spring break this past semester. I've been a lazy ass and I had not loaded the pictures of them that I took shortly thereafter. Arn't they cute?? Almost too good to give away without charging for them. In fact.... The green one was given to someone in love, and in hate, I'd like it back. Whoremonger.
(click on headings to see the photos)
Beaded beads. They were featured in Bead & Button in April (I think it was april). I really like the technique. This is a necklace I made with 3 of them. I'll be making a bunch more after the semester lets out and I have time to do the millions of things that I need to finish.
This is the barnacle rock I made in the winter of 2000. My new digital camera has finally allowed me to put pictures of it onto the net. Isn't it rad? It, not mine, but the person who came up with the idea to cover a rock with beads and bead creatures, was featured in an issue of Bead & Button in the spring of 99. It took me a week just to get the rock covered in beads. The article did give instructions on how to do the barnacles and the seaweed, but the sea anemone (the orange thing) is my own design. The crab (isn't it cute??)was photographed on one of the rocks in the article, but I had to figure it out on my own. I guess it has no function other than a paper weight. It's still cool.
size 11/0 seed beads from Lucinda's
Yes, I still, at the advanced age of 23, play with beads. As you can see from the above picture, this isn't some silly little kindergarten thing. This is not some orthodox loomed summer craft thing either. This is extreme beadwork. No loom, no directions, no limits.
That sounded really intimidating, huh?
Beads are fun. I just got into tubular peyote stitch this past year, and this summer I began to experiment with sculptural peyote stitch. There was an article in Bead & Button in the spring showing how to make peyote stitch fish. I followed their directions and made one. It was so much fun that I made another, and another, and another.... I have since made sea horses and a lizard.
Bead shops to check out
~The Beadin' Path
231 U.S. Route 1 South
Freeport ME, 04032
(207) 865-4785
The Beadin' Path
~Caravan Beads
(I forgot street address)
Dover NH
~Lucinda's
Route 75
Windsor CT, 06095
(You can see two of my fish (
) on display in a bowl at Lucinda's bead shop. I think the bowl is the best use of them that i've seen so far. If you don't see them out, ask her if it's ok to see them.)
Shrine