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Love me, Love my Beads!
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Female
50 years old
Ramona, California
United States
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| What I'm doing right now: Still more rearranging, thinning out junk. Where, please tell me, where does it COME FROM???? |
Mood: selective
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Beaded jewelry, bead embellished clothing, soft furnishings, bead art, and anything to show off or otherwise help others enjoy seeing focal beads, or jewelry pieces to enhance specific outfits.
Because I love to bead and to embellish with beads, I really enjoy creating art-to-wear and to re-make articles of clothing into new and updated pieces. Using two or three old tops and skirts to re-purpose them into dresses is fun, as is the beadwork I do once the re-purposing has been done.
I also enjoy helping friends develop their work area to make the best of what space they have. You might be surprised to discover what can be done with a simple closet, corner, or even with a folding tray type table if your beads and projects are organized. I get a great pleasure from revamping a messy or disorganized area, or when I can develop a workspace where before was only wasted space. Atmospheres matter; the nicer your workspace is for you, the happier you will be, and the happier you will bead!
I adore adornment, any and all. I can become giddy over some very strange things; a bit of broken glass, a few old hex nuts, an interesting piece of fiber or textile, old family photographs, and worn shards of pottery are a few favorites.
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Raising Arizona
The Decline of Western Civilization
Urghh! A Music War (the unedited version, thank you)
Repo Man (because Pablo Picasso was never called an a@@&ole)
Moonstruck
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Everything from classic rock, obscure 60's garage bands, obscure 70's garage bands, obscure 80's garage bands, obscure and a few well known 80's punk rock bands, but nothing from the 90's that I can think of.
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Whoo, not sure I've ever met a book I didn't like. Wait, yes I have. But I can't remember the title.
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Etsy Seller AtoZ Designs With a huge stash of vintage, a few cool new items, and a little bit of everything, I could spend hours visiting here.
Etsy seller The Artful Market If you love filigree, metal beads, and if you prefer to work with different metals such as brass and copper and need basics such as headpins, clasps, chain, jump rings, etc, this is your place.
Oneline bead store Land of Odds has just about any-and-everything you might ever want or need to fulfill your beading needs.
A long-time favorite bead seller, Splendor in the Glass has an ever-changing, always growing selection of the most intriguing vintage material I've ever seen. Beautiful things, and such a nice owner.
Venetian Bead Shop If you want real Venetian beads and not cheap knockoffs, then this is where you want to shop. Great folks, and an incredible selection of Venetian-made beads, too.
For fun Czech beads and incredible bead kits, check The Glass Bead Garden for these items, because you won't be disappointed.
Skybluepink
Caravan Beads
ZNetshows, Inc.
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Beads, beading, beadwork, mixed media, collage, cold metal crafting, combining seed beads with other elements, beaded ATCs, freeform versions of any stitch, most cats but especially our own family furball, our son, his friends, my husband, my jobs, writing, creating, nice people, and a week-long pouring rains storm, as long as no one has to drive in it.
I also enjoy those moments when I break into a sudden grin for no obvious reason; it's just a "because I'm happy to be here now" thing. Feeling a sense of contentment is good, to, and is especially pleasant in these turbulent times.
Other likes: soft wool, hot coffee, warm tea, properly made Greek yogurt, sleeping late, but even better than that is waking early and feeling really rested and ready for a great day.
If I am roused by the frangrance of fresh, hot coffee in the pot, have a wonderful bead design in my head, a quiet house (well, as quiet as it ever gets with a teenager and his friends in and out) and a full day ahead with no other plans but to enjoy my beads and my family.
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Bad manners, mean people, people with no manners whatsoever (were they raised by wolves?) bad drivers, receiving a beautiful lampwork or other art-type bead, only to discover a crack or chip, bad grammar (especially my own), creating work-of-art beadwork then using the cheapest looking findings made, dishonest bead sellers, and disloyalty.
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I'll get back to you on this one. I am not an uncomplicated person and time does not permit me to author this just now.
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