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A Holiday Snowflake
Every year, I add a new snowflake to my Christmas tree. This year, I designed a snowflake using beads that were a gift from a friend’s mom; now I’ll think of them every year I decorate my tree. I like the 1.5 mm cubes quite a bit. I have one leftover pressed glass bicone, and…
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New snowflake for the Christmas tree
Every year, I add a snowflake to the Christmas tree. Since I started beading, most of these have been beaded snowflakes. Here’s this year’s addition! Twisted bugles, a few Swarovski, and a few size 11 beads. It needed more thread passes, but I was running out of time (11:45 p.m. Christmas Eve). It’s a little…
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Beading Lake Superior
Embellishing one small rock from Lake Superior’s shores… I am providing this as part of a gift basket for a silent auction, with the theme of Minnesota.
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Snowflake 2012
I make a snowflake for my Christmas tree every year. This was the one I made for this year – Swarovski beads, copper charlottes, copper-lined 2-hole beads, and some lined green seeds that work with the Swarovski. I’m not sure it looks like a snowflake, more like a flower. And this continues essentially the same…
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In memory of Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak, award-winning children’s author, died today at 83. He is perhaps best known for Where the Wild Things Are, where Max sails in and out of a day to where the Wild Things are. Once upon a time, I was going to make a vignette of Max’s room as the walls turn to trees.…