Dulcey Heller

Category: Color

  • Lavender right angle weave bead

    Here’s what I hope will be a fun gift for a fellow beader: a right angle weave bead for her to embellish (or not). I left the thread tails so that additional thread passes won’t pull trimmed ends through. It’s 1″ in diameter – using a clear plastic bead makes it very lightweight, though.

  • When an existing project isn’t grabbing you…

    …grab another? I bought this stabilized Kingman turquoise cab this week, and I think I’ve found the beads I want to use with it.

  • Beading For a Cure 2013 beads

    The auctions are still going for the Beading For a Cure “blue kit,” the beads we worked with last year. The last set of auctions will be listed April 28. Go take a look! There’s some really spectacular beadwork this week. At about the same the auctions are going, participants receive the next kit of…

  • Through no fault of my own…

    Isn’t this a beautiful book cover? This is the (true) diary of a year in the life of Coco Irvine, written by the daughter of a lumber baron. The diary documents her life on fashionable Summit Avenue in St. Paul, MN during the Jazz Age, in 1926-1927. This house now serves as the Minnesota Governor’s…

  • Report on beading every day in November

    Feel free to skip this post – boring, wordy details, probably only interesting to me. So, here’s what I managed to do this month, with a concerted effort to bead every day: 20 minutes of beading on the denim right-angle weave bracelet. 2 hours on above, with taking the plunge and cutting and rebuilding a…