Getting Started

If setting this blog up is any indication of how 'blogging' is done, I'm screwed.  It took me 45 minutes to choose a simple template color and text color and I'm still not satisfied with how this looks.  I just want to add some pictures to the header, jazz up the color a little bit, add some bells and whistles and be a pro RIGHT NOW.  I have patience for beading; I have zero for computers!

But here I am!  I want to do this so I can add more detail to my beading posts, detail I cannot add on Facebook.  I'm afraid I've got a lot of work to do to understand how this all works, but I'll do my best to enlighten and entertain you with my crazy bead obsession.

First, a little about me.  I've been teaching myself bead work for about 10 years now.  I started by buying a book by Sigrid Wynne-Evans on those fabulous little beaded amulet bags and it became an immediate obsession.  Then I spent many years buying bead magazines and literally beginning on page one, I would make every project in the magazine mastering each technique and step.  Learning the craft, finding what I liked and didn't, and finding my own voice.  I love peyote stitch, you couldn't pay me to string a necklace.  I'm in love with seed beads--their color, texture, size.  I'm also fabulously intrigued by bead embroidery and love making each piece uniquely my own.  These are my own designs from beginning to end and I love that opportunity to explore.  It's also a little intimidating and sometimes I just sit and stare at the beads and my needle with a little tear in my eye.  "I don't know what to DO".  And then it happens.

I have small objects for sale, earrings, some necklaces and I hope to bring those to this blog as well.  They are the fruit of my labor and I bring them to you with joy!