Expanding My Horizons
With Faux Bone on the back burner until hubby gets home and we jerry-rig a vice mechanism on my apparently extra-thick card table that serves as my “dirty work” table…I’ve had the desire to do alternate things. It’s that time of year where I feel like I need to expand my horizons.
I’ve considered bead crochet. I know how to crochet, I just can’t decide if I want do it or not, simply (and this is retarded) because if I do a crochet project, I have these hanks of these little tiny pretty white seed pearls. Probably the WORST type of bead to use for a first bead crochet project.
So, I’ll still ponder that one for a bit.
The next thing? Over a year ago, I had the urge to do some seed bead bevelling around a really pretty sodalite cab I have, combine it with a really nice little wood piece I have, and make a brooch out of it.
That project won out. I started it yesterday afternoon, and because the project sat so long (I had already glued the cab to some Stiff Stuff at the time), the glue was no longer adhering. I got the first row done around the cab, and it was futile. I had to take the backing off, cut a new Stiff Stuff backing, and glue it again. I got three rows done last night, and while I’m not real sure if I like my first effort, I have to remind myself it is a first effort. I think I need a few more rows, and I need to eliminate a certain number of beads to make the beadwork draw up tightly and nicely over the edge of the cab. I am looking forward to finishing the bevelled edge, and moving on to the rest of the piece. I haven’t decided what kind of finish I want to add to the beading, but experience has taught me I will figure it out as I go along. If I sketch it out, it won’t turn out that way anyway. Just go with the flow…
I’m off to school–I’ve got a lab and a quiz today. Sounds like a good excuse to come home and bead for a while to relax! 
Be BOLD.
Miachelle