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.
Beads at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings Exhibition
I took a quick look through the artwork that has been accepted into the 2012 JMM Exhibition. There are beads! This exhibition will be held in the exhibit hall in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston during the January 4-7, 2012. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) are the hosting…
Nail polish pendants
Check these out! Susan of Sweeter Lemon has a tutorial on how to make these faux dichroic pendants out of glass tiles and nail polish. I had no idea there was such a thing as shatter nail polish — this is a great idea. I followed instructions, except I used Krylon to seal the back.…