Dulcey Heller

Mary Tafoya’s written another great entry about the abuse of Picasa, ideas for thwarting offenders, and a great poll. (I’m voting for report as offensive, and I think I’m going to send emails to publishers or authors, if I can figure out contact info — I know it’s a boring answer, but it might accomplish something.) I’m not happy that Google doesn’t have better reporting methodology in place….

For a friend….

Okay, now I really want to buckle down and figure out a more substantial project to do next. I like doing bigger projects, but sometimes it’s hard to start them (and then there’s the stage at about 2/3 complete, where the end never seems to be in sight).

I have a Jo Woods kit, looming (still!), and some right angle weave beaded beads in the more recent unfinished category. Longer-standing unfinished projects that still interest me are an embroidered purse, and a necklace that’s a combination of stringing and seed bead work. I have a couple other projects with components pulled and ready to go and haven’t started, which I also still want to do. I see a beaded present or two on the horizon that I could get to as well.

Motivation, please!

My latest additions to my feed reader and to this blogroll….

• Handmade by Erika
• Lisa Businka
• Charlene
• Sophie
• Miss Bristling

A half dozen or so people I know participated in this exhibition, put on by the Beadin’ Path in Freeport, Maine.  Everyone started with the same white plastered paper mask, and look at the results!

This artist from Belgium has some great pieces. Check out her blog; in the upper left she has some instructions (Mes schémas), both for sale and free. Her strawberry and spiral beaded bead are just phenomenal.

Her recent post, of spiral flat square stitch earrings, prompted me to make my own. Hers are better — she’s better at this stitch, and I used more irregular beads. I still like mine quite a bit though. These beads remind me of Black Hills gold, which is gold jewelry marketed/sold from the Black Hills of western South Dakota, and contains rose gold, green gold, and yellow gold (and to be marketed as Black Hills gold, has to include the leaf motif, I believe).