New blogs to follow
Here’s some more, added to this blogroll and my feedreader: Takıntı… (first Turkish blog on the blogroll) Muttery Lakota mágia
Co-worker bead gifts
I often make beaded gifts for co-workers; this year’s gift is Gwen Fisher’s spinning top bead, intended as a small Christmas ornament, but it could certainly be a glitzy pendant.
Christmas snowflake
Every year, I add a new snowflake to my Christmas tree. Since I started beading, most of those snowflakes are ones I’ve made. This year, as typical, I was making the snowflake Christmas eve. And also typically, I grabbed beads and put them together however they seem to want to go together.
Christmas presents decoded
These are Diane Fitzgerald’s Baubles from Shaped Beadwork. It’s a really interesting shape; I’ve modified it by adding a row of beads and zipping them together in three places. I have no idea what the name is for this shape, if there is one. I put embroidery floss through the loops, with the intent that…
Christmas presents, unassembled
Looks like a blue dog, doesn’t it? This is the same thing, tweaked another way. Double triangles? I’ll show them assembled after Christmas! They don’t look anything like the finished pieces.