Silver Dance

For the first time since we moved here, I sat down at my workbench and answered the call of the silver dance. After a bit of cleaning up and making space to work, I found myself coiling some 18 gauge fine silver to cut some jump rings. After closing all the rings, I fused them. Now I'm off to shape and see if the idea I have flows into a wearable item.

Buttons included

Caboch-style on ultrasuede background.

Thanks Nicole. L&L

Right angle

And another...

Right angle weave with hearts added on top.

Thanks Wendy S. L&L

Modern twist

And one more beaded square for the Bead it forward challenge. More to come. Herringbone or Ndebele stitch

My design, adapted from design in Bead and Button by Carol Perrenoud. L&L

Another Square

Another beaded square for Beaders have the Heart to take on breast cancer. Single drop Peyote stitch.

Thanks Fire. L&L

Beady project

Bead artists against breast cancer has a new Bead it Forward project: Beaders have the Heart to take on breast cancer. For the details on the project check out the link on the side.

My contribution to this project is to stitch squares. As many of you know I was at Live and Learn in September and invited folks to draw hearts that I would then interpret into beads and stitch. These will be submitted under the name Live and Learn Unschoolers. I also invited family to design and will submit those under family name. I think I have about 48 squares and a deadline of Mar 1 (with time to mail). So far finished projects are SLOWLY being done, but lots of time has been spent thinking a working out details and... shopping for beads (oh darn ;-)

Thanks Dottie for this design. Family

Garage project

One morning Kirk woke up and decided he wanted to clean the garage... I was thinking empty it out and sort and put back... He was thinking empty out the back and tear down the shelves and build a new set of studier/more useful shelves. Either way, once the shelves were out we were committed. Fortunately he had help.