Visit the 2007 BJP member pages, a gallery of completed work by members who have finished 8 or more pages.
"Ways of Seeing" by Robin Atkins
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.
Loved the ideas on which type of beader are you. I'd have to say that I'm a little of both. I plan, but only in my head. Drives my engineer type husband crazy as I don't use a journal or write things down. Now, I do free form bead embroidery when I get started, and rarely rip anything out. I just turn it upside down, ask myself what can I do with that and keep on beading. Mainly though, I bead to challenge myself & most of the times, those accidents trigger something that sets my brain afire.
I am like flyingbeader, I do plan to a degree on most things but normally only the design elements. The beads I choose are usually the ones I have at hand unless they are for a specific purpose, like the ones I made for last months page.
On my first page, I was very specific on the design and I found that was too restricting however I continue with it as it was a lesson learnt.
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Loved the ideas on which type of beader are you. I'd have to say that I'm a little of both. I plan, but only in my head. Drives my engineer type husband crazy as I don't use a journal or write things down. Now, I do free form bead embroidery when I get started, and rarely rip anything out. I just turn it upside down, ask myself what can I do with that and keep on beading. Mainly though, I bead to challenge myself & most of the times, those accidents trigger something that sets my brain afire.
I am like flyingbeader, I do plan to a degree on most things but normally only the design elements. The beads I choose are usually the ones I have at hand unless they are for a specific purpose, like the ones I made for last months page.
On my first page, I was very specific on the design and I found that was too restricting however I continue with it as it was a lesson learnt.
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