beading

  • Take Time to Wear the Flowers

    ByHeather Bailey

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    I had the best time bead-shopping with my mom & sister last night. 
    We clucked and cooed over each other's finds and left with an
    assortment of big plans.  We hurried back home afterward & sent the
    men out to a movie together.  Now to plan a jewelry night.  I'll
    probably have to wait a week or two — if I can stand it.  We'll see.

    As promised, I posted the floral pendants I mentioned yesterday.  They're similar to the blackbird pendant,
    maybe a tiny bit less shiny.  Same material though. These are also
    a discontinued design;  I was only able to get my hands on twelve.  Here they are.

  • Bead It, Kid

    ByHeather Bailey

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    Beadingnew So, guess who made these necklaces?

    Four-year-old Charlotte did this all by herself.  I thought I was
    embracing disaster by allowing her free access to several bins of beads
    while I worked on the computer today.  I was entirely wrong.

    Not
    only did Miss C patiently string together all of these designs without
    my oversight, but she made them all symmetrical.  Even her most
    eclectic necklace doesn't miss a beat
    bead.  Hours and hours of necklace-making.  All I did was add the
    clasps.  And I bent a loop at the top of her one pendant.  That's it.

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    When I was four years old, my bottom dresser drawer was stocked with
    white paper, a stapler and staples.  I made all sorts of wild
    inventions with white paper that year.  And here I thought I had been
    tricky-stuff at four, with my paper robots and elephants.  Looks like
    Charlotte has 4-year-old me mightily whooped.

    The moral: 
    Moms, Grandmas, Aunts and Alligators, let your kids have access to some
    of your precious supplies.  They may surprise you with tidiness and
    ingenuity!  I can only imagine what I would have done with real art
    supplies at that age.

    Of course, they may surprise you with a royal disaster instead.  I've been there too — many times.