The Love Birds

Here are some pictures of the BFAC - for all about beads. It's being mailed out today - the deadline I squeaked to!

It's a great project and I really enjoyed it! I had very little time because I took over someone elses beads, so the beading is simple but I like how it turned out.

Cheers, Denise

Hi everyone! It's way past time for some pictures and some beaded journal updates. I am behind, I do know that but I'm getting back on track and that is a good thing! I want to introduce you to three pages, can't remember which ones I've posted lately, I probably could have scrolled through to see but I'm posting anyway.




This is Amaterasu and she is all about Beauty and the Sun. She helps crops grow. The green is a rice paddy.

This is Damara and she guides and helps children. Can you see the baby's face? Click on it to make it bigger, and you might just see. And yes for all those who know how not fond of pick I am, I did use it - Damara called for it!

Pele is Divine Passion and hearts true desire. She is a volcano. Those are crystals at the top which made them hard to photograph.

I used my daughter's camera and I thought I could get better pictures but I don't actually know the settings very well so I think I'll either have to learn or I'll go back to the other camera.

Cheers, Denise

Holding Pattern

I haven't been very creative lately. I feel like a plane that is circling, waiting rather impatiently and hoping that I can land before I run out of fuel. That fuel is patience. Every fiber in me knows I have to be patient and yet ready to act if all things go well. If they don't, I need to be pragmatic and move forward in another direction.
So that's what I am doing and it's not easy since I'm a move forward, take action kind of person. I think this is the hardest thing for me to do and I'm trying really hard to be cognizant of the lessons I'm being shown!!


Bring it on, I'm ready!!


To Be Patient!


and there's the irony.

First Camping Trip of the Year!!!

These pictures are not our trailer but pictures of another trailer, same model. We are starting the camping season!!!

Our big dog, three children and of course my darling husband and I go every year for the last 3 to Bon Echo Provincial Park.

http://www.ontarioparks.com/ENGLISH/bone.html

It is a beautiful, inspiring place full of ghosts that painted and wrote and created! The history of Bon Echo is full of artistic inspiration. The famous Group of Seven used paint there. Walt Whitman wrote there.

I love starting my summer there!!

Towards 2020

Hi all,
I've just finished the conference. There is nothing quite like being the hostess to 400 people from across the country. It truly was a huge, exhausting gift.
So, no bead work, not mixed media art. Just the art of doing a job well and enjoying the presence of so many people whose lives have been focused on making the lives of children and youth better in Canada.
I'm over-absorbed.
I'm so very sleepy.
I'm exhilarated.

Cheers, Denise

What's new?

My beaded juggling balls are up for auction! These fun balls are part of the Beading For a Cure project that I did last year. I am very proud of these balls - they feel really good in the hand and I think they would also be fun to have in a bowl on the coffee table - people would definitely pick them up and play with them! Check out the link. http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/beadingforacure

In other news. I've been volunteering for the conference Towards 2020 Canada's commitment to children and youth. This has been a great opportunity for me to be involved with some wonderful people to create a conference that brings together people whose focus is on the future of our country from an important perspective. I am really looking forward to the day of the conference because the plan is to create a new future for our children that involves them and helps them to be the best people they can be. Here's a link and there are still spaces available!

http://towards2020.ca/

I also sewed together a quilt. See, I have all this material and I wanted to actually enjoy it. So I pulled out the oranges and orange alikes, and I all the teal blues, blues and such and cut up the squares.

It's not finished - I want to back it with some flannel and no stuffing. So I cut the flannel but I didn't measure twice - arghhhh!!! I have more work to do!

Here are the pictures though, and more will be forthcoming when I finish it. Here's a hint, think spring green rickrack.

I will have some beading to show you in the next few days too. My darling husband will be back from Australia tonight! I wonder how jetlaged he'll be after a 2o odd hour flight!
Cheers, Denise

My new, ambitious but ever so interesting project

Hi Everyone!! Oh, my this picture situation has taken on a life of it's own! I don't quite know what's new with Blogger, but it's duplicated somethings and won't let me delete others!
So, having said that, let's get on with the show!
Here is my new project! I have decided to build myself a tree. I had been collecting wire for a while and had purchased a scrap piece of copper. My dear husband had brought home wire for me also. It was all in my art room waiting for me. Then I saw this http://speediebeadie.blogspot.com/2009/01/ice-things.html . Dot is an amazing bead artist and she got my juices flowing. I went down to my art room and got out the wire.

I started bending and twirling and before I knew it, I was making a tree!

Then I wanted branches and so I got out more wire.

After I felt like I had enough branches, I started wrapping it in polyfill. The material in the background I dyed for the tree.

Here it is, all wrapped up and tied with string. I did change this picture in the right direction but blogger or picasa switched it back. Sorry about that.
Here is the tree wrapped in felt. Next is the material. Watch for more progress shots of the tree, I've ordered the beads - that was neat! I'll show you to them as they come in!

This is my oldest daughter, smirking at me. It seemed to stick to blogger too.

My Goddess Pages are up to date

This is Amaterasu. She is about beauty and light. She looked into a mirror and saw her true beauty. The green on the bottom represents the rice paddies. Amaterasu had hidden in a cave but the rice paddies missed her light so the other Goddess's gathered around to get her to come back out.

This is Rhiannon. She represents manifesting your clear intentions into reality. She is in a forest and she sometimes rides a white horse or transforms into one.
Truth be told, I don't think I did that great a job with her, but I left her the way she is.

This is all 4 pages to date. I've just started on Jan. I promise myself that as long as I start the page in the month that it is for, I'm doing alright. Now that I have finished 4 of them, I feel like I've got this project under control. I am still debating whether I should finish the edges of the 3 pages I've just done. It really does seem to make a difference, doesn't it?

Some Pictures For You

Here is a picture of my family ring that my husband and children presented to me at the Rain Forest Cafe when we were at Animal Kingdom. It is a beautiful channel set ring with two saphires, an emerald, a diamond and an aquamarine. I was very surprized!! It's so perfect for me!

Here is a picture of my December page for the Beaded Journal Project. It is the Goddess Sedna, and it is to represent the ocean. I did really well in my oceanography course and wanted to celebrate it. Sedna actually has whales and dolphins coming out of her fingers but I didn't have whale and dolphin beads. She also had seaweed hair in another depiction, so I decided to focus on that.

Inaugration Day

I just wanted to mark this day on my blog, because as I listened to President Obama give his inaugural speech, I was given a gift of hope, I was given a chance to embrace my global community and given a reminder to rise to the challenge of being the best person I could be.
I am in a position of flux because I have finished school and I am looking for my place in employment. His empowering speech was an opportunity to reflect on where I can take my education and what I can do to become the best person I can be.

Thank-you President Obama.

A Few Pictures of our Holiday

Hi!

Here are a few pictures of our holiday’s.  Haley, my middle daughter got a new camera for Christmas.  She was in picture mode – taking over 2000 pictures!  Needless to say, many of them are the same, similar or just plain weird.

Here we are, getting ready for out airboat ride.  We had a great time here, taking the boat out to a fresh water lake and river to see the alligators and the birds.  We also had a chance to see a cypress bayou with orchid buds growing in the trees.  The spanish moss is amazing!

 

The alligators were so calm in their natural environment.

We had a wonderful dinner at the Rainforest Cafe.  The family surprized me with a wonderful gift to celebrate my completion of university!  They made me a card and Drew gave me a family ring.  It’s absolutely beautiful!  I’m a very fortunate woman! 

I’ll show you a picture of it when it gets back from the store – where it’s being sized right now. My family stones are emerald, two blue sapphires, a diamond and a blue topaz.  It makes for a very beautiful ring!

Cheers, Denise

Cyber Fyber

http://cyberfyberonlineatcs.blogspot.com/

http://cyberfyberexhibitjournal.blogspot.com/

Susan Lenz has done an amazing job. She has created an exhibit that spans the globe! Many of us who participated in atc's, postcards or even bigger pieces are aware that the exhibit starts tomorrow.

I want to thank Susan for allowing me to participate and to invite people to go and visit the links above to see some of the wonderful art that is being displayed.

Cheers, Denise

Happy New Year!

Hi Everyone!
I'm back!!
I finished school!!! I am so happy to have finished after 8 years. My final term was amazing and I really enjoyed the classes I took. I am going to look for work now. Well, now that I am finished it's time!
I will go to convocation in June with my family and have a party I think, to thank everyone who was so supportive during the long process!
For now, as I look for work, and care for my family, I am going to get some beadwork completed and start a bead project that has been brewing. Stay in touch for that.
I was away for the holidays. We all went to Florida - to Disney and Universal Studios. We played hard and my middle daughter - Haley, took a ton of pictures. I'll post some in the next few days.
Cheers! Denise

Tim Holtz!!!!

http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Hi everyone!!! I'm down to the wire on school! It's exam and final essay time! I really want to bead and look at what's tempting me to the art room!
Tim Holz and his twelve tags of christmas!
Go! Look! Be Inspired!
I'll be back soon to show you some beading, unless you want me to cut and paste my essays into my blog!
See you soon!
cheers, Denise

The Carleton Community Art Show


Featuring artwork made exclusively by Carleton
students, sta¬, and faculty

Everyone is welcome and admission is free!
Free parking is available in Lot 6 on weekends

Opening reception:
Friday, 7 November, 12 - 1 pm
Dr. Roseann O'Reilly Runte, Carleton's President, will open the
exhibition at 12:20.


Party:
Friday, 7 November, 5 - 7 pm
Local artist collective Mix Media – DJ Memetic, Mr. Peers and Maki


– will fill the gallery with live music, video-mixing and painting.
Hours:
Friday, 7 November: 10 am - 7 pm
Saturday, 8 November: 10 am - 5 pm
Sunday, 9 November: 10 am - 5 pm
Monday, 10 November: 10 am - 5 pm


Carleton University Art Gallery

St. Patrick’s Building, Carleton University


I did it! I entered 4 pieces into this gallery. Of course, there is a fancy logo but I can't seem to figure out how to load a pdf file on this, so I'm going to leave it for now. It will be really neat to see my pieces shown off in a gallery! It was a spontaneous thing but good I think.
Alas, I'm going to miss the party because I have an exam on Friday night. Oh well. Drew and the kids and I will go on Sunday.
Too Cool!
Cheers, Denise

Blog Hoppin'!!!

Homework. Schoolwork. All the time.
Well okay, I still make dinner, still shop for groceries, still drink a glass of red wine in the evenings, but really, I am reading, writing and thinking. A lot.
That's all good! I love being in school full time actually and I love making the connections between one class and the other. Because I've been doing an interdisciplinary program, I find that there are connections in different fields and I enjoy that. And I enjoy learning. What am I studying this term you ask?
Oceanography, Sociology of Popular Culture, Children in Conflict and Research and Writing in an Academic Setting.
Can you guess which one I like the most? Go ahead, guess!!!

Blog Hopping!
I love to blog hop! I start at one of my bookmarked blogs, pick one from their list, go there, poke around, pick one from their list etc. and so it goes. This is a neat way to get new blogs on your favourites and be introduced to new artist, creators etc along the way.

So instead of the non-existent beading - (it'll keep I know) I thought I would show you where I pass the time when I'm browsing the internet. That way, at least you can live a little through their blogs! You can go Blog Hoppin'!!!
Cheers, Denise
Tim Holtz
This man is so creative and upbeat! He always makes me smile!

creativity prompt
I just tripped over this one, but it looks interesting doesn't it?

threads of love
There is Christmas on this blog!!1

fibermania
I never get tired of going to visit Melody!

The Lone Beader
This wonderful beader shows us all the steps.

The Procrastination Meme

I should be working on an assignment, but I'm doing this meme instead!

Okay...so 7 unknown facts about me...then tag 7 friend/bloggers I'd like to know more about and link to them all....that's a toughie since I've seen this meme all over and most of my tagees have already been tagged by others!
But here goes....

I have been watching General Hospital for about 30 odd years. I even remember Luke and Laura's wedding!

I am allergic to water. I break out into hives when I shower, go swimming, or sweat too much. It actually means that I am indeed allergic to hard work!

I sleep better when there is a stash of chocolate in the house. I can go weeks without eating it but when I want it, it better be there!

I actually want to do my Masters. I know, I can hear you - crazzzzy!!!!

While almost everyone who knows me knows I don't like pink, I actually don't mind dusty rose, or ummm, well dusty rose.

I graduated high school and college and never went to the graduation ceremonies.

I snoop in my husbands wallet, his in-mail box, his stuff. He knows too. We've been married for 20 years and he really doesn't have anything to hide!

Now I'm supposed to tag a bunch of people.




Kelly
Susan
Mary
Emmy
Amy
Dot

Here you go! There isn't 7, cause I dare to be different and I have to go out!

cheers, Denise

Sooner than I thought...

Hey all! I took a picture of my September page. Sarasvati is finished. I thought I had a mini book for her but it seems to have been misplaced. If or when I find it, I'll add it to the page. The charm is a swan, the flower she is surrounded by is a lotus.
She is made with 15's, as is the flower petals. I really enjoyed her. Oh and her lyre. I weaved it with 15's in square stitch. that was cool, I had never done that before.


Meet Henry.
He is a mascot for Christmas Prescence. Christmas Prescence is a store I work in that opens this weekend and goes until the first of the new year. I am celebrating working there for 10 years!
So Henry is our mascot and he needed his own tree, with some decorations. He has a friend in the chicken.
I did peyote around his neck and made the tree out of peyote too. I made the water and the island out of bead embroidery. He is going to be a gift to the store. I glued the base to a piece of styrofoam that is wrapped with gold ribbon.

Henry is my little side project. He himself is an ornament. I look forward to him being part of Christmas Prescence this year. I can't wait to see the reaction of a certain, specific person who I work with!

So where do you think I've been?

Can you say School? I'm going to try to post a picture of a certain project I have been trying to finish, but school keeps getting in the way!
Bear with me while I finish this school thing! I miss my beading!!!
Cheers, Denise

A wonderful little contest!

Isn't this a great idea! I love visiting new blogs and seeing what's what. So check out this one for a new book!

Cheers, Denise
Baking Delights

Thank-you Birthday Bead Buddy!!!!

Sorry this is sideways, I thought I had rotated it, but it didn't show up that way now. This is my cat Sherri. She sleeps anywhere! This shelf is our homework shelf, where we keep homework papers and find books and such that are important. I think it's funny that she curls up there, it's plastic and her little paw kept slipping, she'd pull it up and then it would slip again. How can a cat sleep when her paw is moving like that!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEADS!!!
I want to say thank-you so much!!! What a great gift! I think the little packages are 15 delica's and hex's! This is amazing!!! She also sent me some gorgeous triangles, which are some of my favourite beads!! The faces are wonderful and I needed some needles, so that was awesome, along with the thread!
There is also an absolutely wonderful, adorable fairy girl. The camera battery ran out so I don't have a picture. She is gorgeous and she is on my mantle right now.
My suprize birthday bead buddy said that she reads my blog so I want her to know, that I couldn't read her signature and don't know who she is.
Here is a great big thank-you for a wonderful beady day!!!!!
As usual, feel free to click on the picture for a bigger version!
cheers, Denise

AND THE WINNER IS...

Heidi!!!!
I wrote up all the names on slips of paper and my eldest daughter Claire picked the name. I don't have a picture cause she was in her pajamas!
So I'll round up the beads, take a picture and send them on!
Heidi, if you send me your address in the comments section, I'll get it and it won't go to the general public because I moderate my comments.
It was great to see other peoples places! It always seems to connect me to other beaders in somthing that is a lonely endeavor!
Thanks everyone for playing!!
Cheers, Denise

What does your bead desk look like? - A Give Away!

I've always wanted to do a Give Away!

So what does your bead table look like? It is messy? Has it got too many beads on it? Has it got vellux? Is it fancy or simple like mine - a t.v. tray in the family room with my beads in a chest and also downstairs in my art room.
Post a picture of your bead table, or surface and leave a comment on this page with a link to the picture. At the end of the week, I'll pick a name and send you some seed beads!







Don't forget to click on the picture for a larger size!


On another note, here is an update of my Beaded Journal Project. Most of this has been done in 15's which allows me great detail in the colours of the leaves of the lotus. There is a lot more to go, so it's fun to show the progress pictures!!

What's wrong with the word "Artist"

Hi Everyone,
Here are a few things that have been on my mind.

The other day I was watching Ellen and she had Usher as a guest. I guess they are good friends. Anyway, she asked him to draw a picture of his new baby. He took the pen and paper and then commented that he would try but he wasn't much of an artist!
~~~Hello?
Usher? Not an artist? The man dances, and sings and writes music and choreographes but for some reason, he doesn't think of himself as an artist!
What is wrong with this word? It amazes me how often I hear or read this from people. Artistic ability isn't just about being able to draw, it's about being creative on all kinds of different levels!
After he drew the picture, Usher got up to dance. That man can sure dance! What an amazing artist!!!!

On another note.

I would like to apologize to another artist and blogger. I recieved some comments under her name and thought that she had made them. They were comments that said that she thought my work wasn't beautiful. This was strange and I jumped to the wrong conclusions. Apparently this was actually SPAM!!!! I had no idea that it came in this form! I would like to sincerely apologize to cramzy for jumping to the wrong conclusion. If you ever recieve comments that seem strange or unusual, then perhaps it's spam. I had no idea.

And, if you were thinking that my pictures seemed a little blue, it turns out that one of the members of my family was fooling around with the camera and changed a lighting setting and everything is a little blue. Things look better now and upcoming pictures won't have the blue look.

Okay, this picture. I try really hard not to use grocery bags and to bring my own. I've done it for years, long before the big push. But one thing that niggled me was that I always use the plastic bags for fruits and veggies. Then I was sent a video about plastic and it's affect on the environment and animals and I finally acted. I made this smaller bags specifically for fruits and veggies. They may indeed weigh more than the plastic ones, but I feel a heck of a lot better for using them! I want to stamp veggies and fruits on them, but I'll do that with the girls.
Cheers, Denise

Beaded Journal Project and my new project

Here is my new project. A very long time ago I made a similiar picture and was all set to bead it when I found out through the wonderful people at Quilty Pleasures here in Ottawa, that I had used to wrong iron on stuff. It sat in my art room for way too long until I finally took the scissors to it and cut it up.
Then I created a new one with Steam a Seam and now I am beading it. I have mostly just started and I don't like the free motion sewing up on the blue part because it didn't turn out very well. My machine doesn't drop it's feed dogs, so I used the feed dog cover, which really doesn't work very well.
I've started beading the green seaweed and I'm working on the orange/coral beading. It is very relaxing and fun.




Here is the start of my BJP. The Goddess is Sarasvati. It isn't finished and I've got lots to do but the shape is fun and the colours are soft. I am really looking forward to this years BJP!




Cheers, Denise

The Book List!

Here's a great list of books that popped up on a blog -Pearls Journey I saw. Apparently:
It's a list from the Guardian paper in the UK, and seems to be a slightly edited version of that provided by the Big Read at the BBC. “The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they’ve printed.”
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Gray out those you are unfamiliar with.
6) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

So, what have I read from this list?


1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen +
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien +
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling +
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee +
6 The Bible (parts)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte +
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell +
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott +
12 Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22- Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier +
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien +
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger +
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald +
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll +
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame +
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis +
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis +
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini +
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernières
39 The Time Travelers Wife- Arthur Golden +
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne +
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell +
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown +
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery +
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood +
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding +
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel +
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley +
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon +
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck +
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold +
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett +
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray +
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens +
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry +
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White +
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams +
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare +
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl +
100 Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

So I've read 35 on the list. I guess I better get reading. I have to say that there are some on the list I would never put there and a few good books are missing!
How 'bout you? What does your list look like?
Cheers, Denise

Need I say more?

Beading For A Cure Beaded Juggling Balls

These balls will be going up for auction! They are a curious mix of soft and hard and easily jugglable! My dh tested them out for me.
I have to say that as much as I enjoy these colours, I am ready for a change!!
Cheers, Denise

I'm trying again

Hi
I had this all lined up nice, written well, then went and lost it. How often do I do that? Arghhh, much too often.

Anyway, here are my messy piles of works in progress! It's fun sometimes to take these pictures and see what you've done with your work, can you tell I've been flitting from one project to another?
The BFAC ball is there, the beave, and the other BFP. I see Nanabush and I see some odd beads that really should be running home by now.


















Here is my Canadian Beaver. This BFP is month April. Thanks to That Bad Liz - I love the Moose and the Dragon and her style and wanted to try it. Of course, I have to do the edges of course. I really like the beaver! He's cool! He looked like a groundhog until I put his tail on, it's amazing how similiar those animals look. I used a piece of leather for the tail.

I finally picked up some Grunge board. I'm going to see if I can bead it. You can't see it here, cause it's down in the art room but I was so excited to finally get my hand on some!

I am almost finished my May page too. It's been very intuitive and I'm just at the stage where I need to stare at it and see if there is something else I want to add to it.

Then my March page. It's got the outline beaded and I hope to finish it this weekend. I have to, have to, HAVE TO!!!! finish my BFAC first!






Alright! Time to go! Have a Great Day Everyone!!!

Will there be 2 or 3?

Beading For A Cure!
I was inspired by some children's toys. My daughter won them for me at her local school fun fair fish pond so I opened them up, took out the foam, cleaned and dyed them and then stuffed them with new polyfill. Oh and then the fun began! I outlined the edges and then filled in each side!

Oh this was fun and it's not finished!!! I want to make three if I can get enough beads and thanks to some wonderful amazing women at All About Beads, there are some in the mail to me.
If it's not three, sitting nicely in a bowl to be played with, it could be two - like fuzzy dice hanging from a rear-view mirror!

I hope to make each side different and I added the yellow/lime beads as my extra bead.
I'm still beading my BJP and there will be pictures soon. I just got inspired by the BFAC beaded juggling balls and there is a deadline!

In other news, I'm not working. It didn't work out so I'm looking for work again. That means more time for beading!

Enjoy!!! Denise

Finally some pictures!

Her name is Rae! She is a North American Traveller who made her way back home to me! I'm so happy to see her after so many years. She's got some amazing features to her and I'm still trying to decide if I want to add beads or just leave her!






This is my beach vessel! It was fun to make! I want to thank Bobbi over atBeading At the Beach. I have another one in the works, but I am being side tracked by my BJP, which I'm behind in.

I started a new job!! I'm working at Beddingtons Bed and Bath and believe me, I have a few things to learn about bedding and towels and such but it's a great place and elegant feel to it and I'm so enjoying the atmosphere and the staff I've met so far! Oh and one of them is a quilter so you can bet I'll be talking up a storm with her!









So enjoy yourselves and I'll be posting my Beaded Art Journal Pages very soon!
Cheers, Denise

I'm playing again!!!!

Cyberfyber

I'm playing!!! I've been back at beading and saw this a few days ago. Then I was at Beading at the Beach and it was mentioned again, so I'm going for it!!
I'll post some pictures when I find the extra battery, the battery charger or both - do you think they are together somewhere?
I'll ask the kids!!!
Cheers, Denise