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On the following pages you will find links to patterns and other interesting websites, as well as inspirational stories, bead patterns and tutorials, and Artist Highlights. Take a moment relax and look through the pages. If you have anything you would like to add here please let me know I will be happy to take a look. Rose
Beading Artist Highlight:
Contents and Original Designs Copyright 2002 by Daphne Gould
To see more beautiful work visit her on the web at: www.daphnesdesigns.com
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The first time I ever beaded anything was over ten years ago. My daughter was 4 and my son was 3. I was making a costume/wall hanging of an imperial dragon for my husband. I still remember going to my daughter’s gymnastics class and beading ... and beading ... and beading. It took forever to finish. I swore never to bead anything again. NEVER! I think I used all of my patience up on raising my children and had none left for anything else. For a decade I didn't pick up one bead. I did many other things: raised my kids; went back to school; programmed; but never beaded. Then one day, not long after September 11th, my office shut down and we were all laid off. I liked working, but I really missed spending time with my children. So I decided to stay home at least through the next summer. I love summers with the children. There are so many fun outdoor things to do with them.
But summer was a long way off and I was bored at home. I had already cleaned the basement out and organized the garage. I needed some project to work on. After going to Arisia (a science fiction convention), I decided I could make costumes for the next one. I made a druid's costume. The pattern was for an ancient Irish dress. I made it in sage green with a dark green underskirt, and I appliquéd ivy leaves all the way up the dress and down part of the back. I lined the leaves with BEADS. Last time I had beaded, it was a tedious chore. This time I loved it.
I wanted to do more with beads, and when I found bead weaving I was in heaven. I loved working with little bits of light and color. I made small fish and butterflies which themselves are small bits of light and color. Eventually I added in stones and shells into my work and it became abstract. The pieces were about color and form and no longer about real world things. I would take a stone or shell and create something just based on its shape or color. Slowly this has changed into pieces that are more experience and feeling based. I might start with a large stone but have it evoke some memory of something which then gets incorporated into the finished work.
I Daphne grew up in Colorado and currently lives in Massachusetts.
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21 REASONS FOR
BUYING BEADS
1. Baggies and tubes of beads tightly packed in various containers make an excellent insulation for the home.
2. Buying beads keeps our economy going. It is our patriotic duty to support bead stores.
3. It is less expensive and more fun than psychiatric care.
4. Because they are on sale.
5. At any moment the employees of a bead factory might go on strike and limit the availability.
6. We are participating in a contest. The one with the most beads wins.
7. A bead keeps without refrigeration, you don't have to cook it to enjoy it, you never have to feed it, change it or walk it.
8. We need extra weight in the trunk of our cars for traction on icy or muddy roads. You never know when the weather might change.
9. Because we are worth it.
10. Like dust, containers of beads are good for protecting
previously empty spaces in the house, such as ironing boards, dining
room tables or any other horizontal surface.
11. If the BIG earthquake comes, all the bead stores might be swallowed into the ground and never seen again.
12. Stress from dealing with the "Bead Control Officer" (spouse) makes us do it.
13. Buying beads is not immoral, illegal or fattening. It calms the
nerves, gratifies the soul and makes us feel good.
14. We have to buy beads before our husband retires and goes with us
on all our shopping expeditions.
15. A bead purchase a day helps us work rest and play.
16. Beads are a proven aphrodisiac.
17. While shopping for beads you don't have to worry if they'll fit, or how big they will make your hips look.
18. Beads don't argue, or get crabby.
19. Beads get better with age, like women and wine.
20. You need never go near Loehmann's dressing room to buy beads. | |
