Change of scenery...

I got the old box of tricks out again

yesterday....

had driven myself insane trying to follow a pattern

that a two year old could do and finally decided I didn't really want it

so why was I driving myself batty doing it?

that fact alone didn't help me figure it out!!!

So I put the hook and yarn back in the drawer

and cleared off the desk

and

put my bead boxes out.

I don't know how long ago it was

but I started making bracelets and necklaces

and found it enjoyable.

I even sold quite a few of them

thanks to my sister and a friend.

I got my sister hooked

(or is that beaded?!)

one year when we went on our yearly trek to the Outer Banks

She spent the entire week sitting at the large kitchen table

plotting and putting

the beads on the design board

planning which shop we would visit next and which beads she needed

to make whateve,r just perfectly perfect!

I had never seen her like this

and it made me very happy to see her

de-stress about one thing

and become completely addicted to another

much more enjoyable and artistic side of her she hadn't touched.

I would hear her at two in the morning

making something else

and then the beads would drop back in their boxes

plink plink plink

and I would know she wasn't satisfied

with the design

and as soon as she was up again

and she'd had her first coffee

out the beads would come

and head down

and references to Edwardian

or Italian influences

she'd start again.

She used words like BLING

so not her!!!

She refused to learn how to
"lock" the beads,

I was so much better at that she'd say,

all she wanted to do was

 string string string more

BLING....

 

These are not what she made.

I cant find the photos of all the strings of blings

but I will and post a few!!!

These are what I have made and kept

for myself.

I do wear them occasionally

when the mood strikes

As you can no doubt see

I like Turquoise!!!

I also like substance

no little gold chain with an invisible something hanging from it

for me

NO give me a necklace that looks like it came out of a Tibentan cave

a hundred years ago

and silver

always silver!

this little pearl and czech glass bead

number isn't mine...

it's for someone

on the other side of the
Pond

who needs a little something to wear with her jeans

and new lacy scarf that she made and posted the pattern.....

you know the one that was driving me to drink and debauchery...

that one!!!!!

:)