Rock art
Rock art (rock painting or carving/chipping) is more common in drier regions of the country than the Upper Midwest — more exposed rock! It was a treat to see rock art on a recent trip; the most notable location was Newspaper Rock State Historical Monument in Utah. Newspaper Rock includes rock art from 2000 to…
Native beadwork
Beadwork in Minnesota is most often from the Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) tribe. During my recent trip, I saw only a little beadwork. Ute (Colorado) Paiute (Utah):
Petrified wood
I recently got back from a vacation to the western United States. This is one of three upcoming posts relating to that vacation. First, the most picture-intense post… I fell in love with the petrified wood ALL over the place in Escalante Petrified Forest State Park in Utah. Logs, stumps, branches, pieces — tumbled all…
Playing with lava
I bought some strands of lava beads from Rings and Things, and wanted to try a pendant (or something) with a few of them. Here are the results!
Double netting
Angelica, inspired by the flat double netting in Diane Fitzgerald’s Netted Beadwork, has created and written instructions for tubular double netting. I love the effect. She wrote her free instructions in German and English, and the blog post that details how to download them is here — the website requires full name and address to…