2007 Bead Journal Project: Hi from New Mexico

About the 2007 Bead Journal Project

We are 241 women and 1 man who are dedicated and committed to creating 12 bead journal pages, one per month, for a year, starting June 1, 2007. We live in 13 different countries, including 37 states in the USA. Our primary goal during this process, is to stretch our creative and technical limits. The BJP is all about visual journaling using any media and techniques, as long as it includes beading. We are free to structure our bead journal pages any way we want, as long as all 12 are the same size. Through this blog, we intend to support each other in process, techniques and design. Until September 1, 2007, we will not post pictures of our finished journal pages. Many of us have our own blogs or websites (links below) where we may post pictures sooner.

Robin Atkins BJP Coordinator

Monday, May 21, 2007

Hi from New Mexico

I'm Sarah, I've been beading since the 60's, some years seriously, some years just off and on. I'm excited to stretch my creative muscles with this project, and am planning to use moderate sized pages (maybe 4 or 5 inches square) and am hoping to work more with beads incorporated into a sort of mixed media format rather than just beads, which has been mostly what I've done in the past. Last year I did several large projects, pipe and flute bags for some local alternative shaman/healers, and kept a written journal of the journey. The idea of doing a bead journal never occured to me, but it sounds great. Right now I'm not working on much other than Bead ATC's for the All About Beads forum swap. I have done some very large embroidered pieces, and my favorite is my beaded vest...shown above. The moon phase panel was done in '97, and the dragon was worked from around 2001 to 2002.
I'm hoping to have time to spend reading and sharing on this blog. What a great idea!
Cheers,
Sarah

4 comments:

Robin said...: Thanks so much for posting the picture of your lovely vest. If you have time, I'd love to see a detail shot of both the moon phase and dragon.; May 21, 2007 at 11:30 PM
beadnik said...: Hey Robin, I'll try and get some fresh pics of it today. I haven't really gotten detail shots that I like yet... Today would be as good a day as any to try again.; May 22, 2007 at 5:48 AM
Timaree said...: Hi Sarah. I am glad people are sharing what they've done. I like your vest.

What is the All About Beads forum that you mentioned you are making ATC's for? I saw ATC's mentioned on a site I was visiting and couldn't figure out what they were. Then I picked up a book I had just received from my recent order at Amazon called Artist Trading Card Workshop. CLICK,CLICK!!; May 22, 2007 at 2:47 PM
flyingbeader said...: FreeBird----You'd love All About Beads. It if on Delphi Forum & is owned by Beki Haley from WhimBeads (my favorite place to spend my mula for beads). It is a nice group of bead artist who share ideas, stories & life with each other. We do swaps & a charity called Beading For A Cure which raises money for Colo-Rectal Cancer Research.

BTW...LOVE that vest; May 22, 2007 at 3:46 PM