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.…
Second International Braiding Conference
A conference on braids from around the world is being held August 19-25 in Manchester, England. Braids 2012 is organized by the Braid Society, an organization that also hosts study days, workshops and visits of interest. They publish a quarterly newsletter, and an annual journal, Strands. Reading the 20-page conference program, I see enough time…
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…
The Cradleboard Project with Doug Limón
I met Ojibwe artist Doug Limón at a local powwow this past summer, and I’ve written about his work before. Out of curiosity, I just checked Kickstarter to see what bead projects are there, and Limón talks about his Cradleboard Project, which he had told me about this summer. And happily, is fully funded! He…
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…