The high school my sister works at is supposed to be having a rummage/craft/bake sale the end of the month, assuming final approval goes through. I am renting a booth. It’s been good motivation to get to work on some things. I just wish I had gotten all my bead stuff reorganized [...]

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My Oma doesn’t have much space in her apartment and is trying to find homes for lots of her knickknacks and collectibles and doesn’t mention much that she needs….so it is really hard to figure out gifts for her.  I made a  peyote pattern for a pocket tissue holder and barely started it a couple [...]

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Believe it or not I’ve been wanting to get some blogging done the last few weeks, but the site has been in transition to a new server.  It’s all back up now so here are some of the pictures I promised:
These were my attempts at roses for the rose bead quilt project (Beaders Against Breast [...]

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Well my blogging last year barely started, much less lasted.  I haven’t done much beading yet either aside from a few gifts and requests, and that’s sad because I really love it.  It’s just that like other things I enjoy that require effort (lol) I have to push myself to do them or make the [...]

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I’m getting things together to start working on some bead quilt pieces for the Beaders Against Breast Cancer project I talked about in an earlier post. I know…… my first try is later than I had planned. (We just got moved into our new house!)
Anyway, I was just looking at the shanigansbeadshenanigans.com website [...]

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My little sister is getting married in just a few weeks!
Ever since she told me, I had selfish dreams about making her fun wedding jewelry and even told her I’d do it all for free! But when we got to looking into what she wanted to do, it was something kinda simple yet very [...]

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I don’t always end up reading the articles in my Bead & Button magazine unless I am working on a project that needs special inspiration, or need instruction on how to make something, etc. [...]

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Haven’t blogged in awhile. I was holding off a bit so things wouldn’t be so old once the Gallery page got fixed up a bit. Thanks to the hubby for getting it all organized. The next step is being able to put additional info about the pieces (i.e. what they’re made) [...]

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It wasn’t until I was about done cleaning out and organizing my bead board case and my “recent” (haha) purchases that it dawned on me…

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A good portion of my work is now available for viewing in the Gallery.

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