Reading, learning, family,

Sunday, 28. June 2009, 02:26:18

I’ve dedicated the last 3 days to further education in my choice of crafts and in beading in general. There’s really so much more that I could be doing, and I want to know much more. I have been designing and creating beaded jewelry and crafted beadwork for over 8 years. I have only taken a very few hours of formal lessons here and there. I have learned mostly from books    and from seeing, and listening to what people like. I guess I am a sort of interpreter. I translate or interpret what is said or how a person reacts to something that I make. I think that’s why no two of my created items are exactly alike.

I’ve approached this education by    reading some of the beading books which I’ve had around for some time but have previously used to look up one certain thing. I decided to take a more thorough approach this time. I set my sights on some of the sections in which I thought I would not be interested. So, in my pursuits, I think I’ve picked up at least 4 or 5 more thing to try, including a couple of new bead weaving stitches.  (below is an example of one of my first learned beading techniques)

Beaded Ornament Ball

Now, to find time to actually do them. The family is coming into town the week after next. there’s a new place that I have been considering setting up a satellite store to my existing web store, Beads I View by Pat, and they are having a grand opening sometime next week, I have to keep up with any orders that come in, including updating my store site and my books, and it’s the end of the month and reporting must be do, books updated, etc. etc, etc… oh, and the house needs a really good once over (and child proofing) for the visitors. I also bought a water bed, with drawers underneath that I’m going to turn into a chest of drawers for my “beadroom”. Pictures later. I want to keep up my blogging. It’s fun, too!

Turquoise and Swarovski crystal necklace

Well I’d better get started.

But first, this:
An Antartian boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
The boy asked his father, “What is this, Father?” The father [never having seen an elevator] responded “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t know what it is.”
While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room.
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls light up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.
The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman stepped out. The father said to his son, “Go get your mother.”

Reapectfully submitted,
Pat
Beads I View by Pat – store

Reading, learning, family,

Sunday, 28. June 2009, 02:26:18

 

I’ve dedicated the last 3 days to further education in my choice of crafts and in beading in general. There’s really so much more that I could be doing, and I want to know much more. I have been designing and creating beaded jewelry and crafted beadwork for over 8 years. I have only taken a very few hours of formal lessons here and there. I have learned mostly from books and from seeing, and listening to what people like. I guess I am a sort of interpreter. I translate or interpret what is said or how a person reacts to something that I make. I think that’s why no two of my created items are exactly alike.

I’ve approached this education by reading   some of the beading books which I’ve had around for some time but have previously used to look up one certain thing. I decided to take a more thorough approach this time. I set my sights on some of the sections in which I thought I would not be interested. So, in my pursuits, I think I’ve picked up at least 4 or 5 more thing to try, including a couple of new bead weaving stitches.  (below is an example of one of my first learned beading techniques)

Beaded Ornament Ball 

Now, to find time to actually do them. The family is coming into town the week after next. there’s a new place that I have been considering setting up a satellite store to my existing web store, Beads I View by Pat, and they are having a grand opening sometime next week, I have to keep up with any orders that come in, including updating my store site and my books, and it’s the end of the month and reporting must be do, books updated, etc. etc, etc… oh, and the house needs a really good once over (and child proofing) for the visitors. I also bought a water bed, with drawers underneath that I’m going to turn into a chest of drawers for my “beadroom”. Pictures later. I want to keep up my blogging. It’s fun, too! 

Turquoise and Swarovski crystal necklace 

Well I’d better get started. 

But first, this:
An Antartian boy and his father were visiting a mall. They were amazed by almost everything they saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and back together again.
The boy asked his father, “What is this, Father?” The father [never having seen an elevator] responded “Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don’t know what it is.”
While the boy and his father were watching wide-eyed, an old lady in a wheel chair rolled up to the moving walls and pressed a button. The walls opened and the lady rolled between them into a small room.
The walls closed and the boy and his father watched small circles of lights with numbers above the walls light up. They continued to watch the circles light up in the reverse direction.
The walls opened up again and a beautiful 24-year-old woman stepped out. The father said to his son, “Go get your mother.”

Respectfully submitted,
Pat 
Beads I View by Pat – store

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