Saturday, July 18, 2009
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Christy H Finished and Framed Her 12 Pieces!
Actually, Christy finished her BJP pieces for this year quite a while ago and is now working on the current year's BJP. Finally, I got around to photographing her last four pieces and put them on my blog, here.
Christy and I worked together to prepare her 12 pieces for framing. Thinking our process might be useful to others in the BJP, I wrote a tutorial about how to do it. It's the second half of the post (here.)
Great work, Christy!!!!! Thanks for allowing me to share it with the group!
Robin A.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
BJP Presentation ~ Seattle ~ May 21
For those of you in the Seattle area, I'll be doing a PowerPoint presentation featuring BJP work from our first year for the Northwest Bead Society! Guests are totally welcome!
Visual Journaling with Beads, Fibers, Threads and Fabric
View over 200 beaded journal pieces by 42 artists participating in the 2007-08 Bead Journal Project! Compelling and inspirational, this unique beadwork tells stories, reveals emotions and follows important events in the lives of the artists who create a visual journal each month during the year-long project. In this presentation, you will see the best of the best!
View over 200 beaded journal pieces by 42 artists participating in the 2007-08 Bead Journal Project! Compelling and inspirational, this unique beadwork tells stories, reveals emotions and follows important events in the lives of the artists who create a visual journal each month during the year-long project. In this presentation, you will see the best of the best!
Date: Thursday, May 21st
Time: 7 pm
Location: Greenwood Masonic Lodge
7910 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle (driving directions here)
If you are in the area and participated in the BJP last year or are participating this year, PLEASE COME and bring your BJP pieces for show and tell!!!!
Location: Greenwood Masonic Lodge
7910 Greenwood Ave N, Seattle (driving directions here)
If you are in the area and participated in the BJP last year or are participating this year, PLEASE COME and bring your BJP pieces for show and tell!!!!
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Also, I just posted a Blogiversary Giveaway on my blog here!
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Hi all,
Morwyn, I'm excited to see that your BJP '07 piece will be in the Beaded Book exhibition. Congratulations! Our group from two years ago will be well represented. I've got a new (post BJP) piece that is also in the show. It's called "Metaphorically Speaking" and it's a beaded cigar box inspired by Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth" (and Mary Oliver's book of poetry "House of Light"). I wish I could see the show in person but will look forward to seeing it in print in the June/July issue of Beadwork. Are there other BJP'ers in the show?
Morwyn, I'm excited to see that your BJP '07 piece will be in the Beaded Book exhibition. Congratulations! Our group from two years ago will be well represented. I've got a new (post BJP) piece that is also in the show. It's called "Metaphorically Speaking" and it's a beaded cigar box inspired by Joseph Campbell's "The Power of Myth" (and Mary Oliver's book of poetry "House of Light"). I wish I could see the show in person but will look forward to seeing it in print in the June/July issue of Beadwork. Are there other BJP'ers in the show?
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Update on the Beaded Book Competition
I'm in! My journal, Wheel of the Year, will be touring with the Interweave Bead Expo! Here's my blog entry about it. Thanks again to everyone in the BJP for all their encouragement and support.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Elemental Water - complete!
Elemental Water is finally done! All I have left is Elemental Earth and the whole series will be done and ready for Bead Dreams! Check out the full panel here.
Kassie
Monday, February 16, 2009
December is finally finished
Hi all,
I took one month away to bead a pair of ballet slippers for an exhibition. Now, I'm proud to say that I finished my December BJP and have started my January BJP. I hope to catch up before the month of March. In the mean time, here is my Dec. page.
Edges
For those of you still keeping tabs on what is happeneding with the 2007 BJP, take a look here.
I have finished the edges and can start adding the grommets.
I have finished the edges and can start adding the grommets.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
January Page Completed
I finished my January page over this past weekend. It's my 'change' page and it's here.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
The Beaded Book Competition
Hey, guys - don't know if anyone still stops in here - but I wanted to share an update concerning my beaded journal. I entered it in Beadwork's Beaded Book Competition and I just got the news that it's been selected as a finalist! Now I just have to deal with the trauma of sending off to a bunch of strangers for a few months (insert deep breath here).
Many, many thanks to all the 07-08 BJP gang and especially Robin, who shoved us all down this rabbit hole in the first place., encouraging us to put beads to cloth, expressing ourselves in ways both familiar and strange, stretching our creativity and learning so much together and as individuals. The experience remains one of the richest in rewards - both personal and professional - I've ever known.
Many, many thanks to all the 07-08 BJP gang and especially Robin, who shoved us all down this rabbit hole in the first place., encouraging us to put beads to cloth, expressing ourselves in ways both familiar and strange, stretching our creativity and learning so much together and as individuals. The experience remains one of the richest in rewards - both personal and professional - I've ever known.
However this turns out in the end, I'm already a winner.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
See Six BJP Pieces by Christi C!!!
Christi C. is still working toward completing this project. She has finished June - October, and is nearly done with November. Since Christi doesn't have a website or blog, I've taken pictures of these beautiful pieces and posted them here on my blog for your viewing pleasure! Here's a peek...
I've also posted pictures of pieces by Christy H. who just finished her last piece for the year! You can see them here.
I am so very proud of these two gals (and many others unknown to me) for their perserverance!
Robin A.
I've also posted pictures of pieces by Christy H. who just finished her last piece for the year! You can see them here.
I am so very proud of these two gals (and many others unknown to me) for their perserverance!
Robin A.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Elemental Water Sketch
Sketch for my 3rd panel, Elemental Water, is posted on my blog.
Kassie - The Beading Butterfly
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
March page 2007 BJP
Hi everyone, it has been a very long time since I posted. I finally finished my 8th page, which is for March of 2008. It has been done for awhile but I have had computer problems and was not able to download the picture and then post it. But it is there now if you would like to take a look.
Happy beading,
Nancy K.
Happy beading,
Nancy K.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
What a Customer Created....
This beautiful bracelet is what a customer created from my Double Heart Bracelet wire wrapping tutorial.... It's wonderful!
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Slow as molasses in January
Hi,
I finally finished my April page from 2007-08. For the next go around I'm going to make smaller pieces. You can see April on my blog:
nightbeaderatlarge.blogspot.com
I finally finished my April page from 2007-08. For the next go around I'm going to make smaller pieces. You can see April on my blog:
nightbeaderatlarge.blogspot.com
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
slow going...
Well, I finally finished all of the fire on my Elemental Fire panel. I still have to choose the colors for the inside - it will be green, like the leaf in the center of Elemental Air, but more of a true green as opposed to green-blue or blue-green.
Part of the reason this is going so slow is because I am doing a lot of writing lately. I have written a couple of new poems. I am also taking an Intro to Fiction Writing course online through UNC-Chapel Hill which is a blast - but tons of work.
Kassie - The Beading Butterflyhttp://beadingbutterfly.blogspot.com
http://beadg1rl.deviantart.com
www.beadingbutterfly.com
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Good Bye 2007 BJP
Today is the last day of the 2007 Bead Journal
Project.
I am glad that I am done with all of my 12 pages.
You can check my blog to see my last project.
Project.
I am glad that I am done with all of my 12 pages.
You can check my blog to see my last project.
My last page is complete!
Hello beady friends!
Well, talk about getting down to the wire! My last page, my November page, is finally finished and you can see it here. Even though I am 3 months late, I am feeling quite a sense of accomplishment today to be finally done with all of my pages.
To all of my fellow BJPers who are not done yet - have faith, it WILL happen. Keep on beading and, most of all, have fun!
-Karen
Well, talk about getting down to the wire! My last page, my November page, is finally finished and you can see it here. Even though I am 3 months late, I am feeling quite a sense of accomplishment today to be finally done with all of my pages.
To all of my fellow BJPers who are not done yet - have faith, it WILL happen. Keep on beading and, most of all, have fun!
-Karen
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Time Is SO Catching Up With Me!
Here it is, August 30, only one more day until 2008-2009 BJP officially begins. I am nowhere near finishing up 2007... and I'm realizing that that doesn't really matter so much. This has been a wonderful, sanity-keeping experience for me, having my BJP project to come back to after things went haywire, which they did on a regular basis this last year. I can confidently say that I wouldn't have come through nearly as well as I have without the beadwork and all of you to encourage and inspire me. At this point I have 6 and 5/6th pages done, just a bit over half of the 12 I'd hoped to have. And my solution is to invoke my Artistic License and, well, cheat and declare that each page will represent 2 months. :- D Oh, I'll still be working on 2007-2008 as I go along, but right now I can have that (somewhat false) sense of achievement and completion. Page 7 will be finished up by tomorrow, and then I will start 2008-2009. And I still haven't decided on size, theme (if any), or anything. I can't wait to find out what I'll come up with!
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