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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.
Robin Atkins BJP Coordinator
Robin Atkins BJP Coordinator
Rules for Participation in the BJP
Here is a post which lists the official rules for participation in the BJP.
BJP Flickr Site
Members are welcome to view and post photos of their completed BJP monthly pages here on Flickr.
It's amazing to see them all at once. Like in an exhibition, you can see each person's unique style. Awesome!!!
Robin Atkins, BJP Coordinator
It's amazing to see them all at once. Like in an exhibition, you can see each person's unique style. Awesome!!!
Robin Atkins, BJP Coordinator
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December
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- Happy New Year everyone
- Big Beady Hugs to All!
- BUON ANNO
- Dec project done
- Best Wishes for the Coming Year
- Finally starting December!
- "Piggy" Barrette BJP
- December page finished
- Another December Almost Gone
- December BJP
- December journal page
- November Page Accompli!!
- Joy in the New Year!
- Merry Christmas
- Merry Christmas to everyone!
- Holiday Greetings!
- December
- Merry Christmas
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- saluti a tutti
- Happy Holidays to the Bead Journal Artists...
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- View My Card
- Please vote!
- my December
- Sept & October
- Surprise!!
- November BJP Complete
- Still kickin!
- Whew...out of lurking
- What kind of surface do you bead on?
- no new progress for me, but some cool drawings...
- Just in the Nick of Time
- September, October, November update
- December page finished
- October in December!
- FINISHED SEPTEMBER!
- Christmas Greetings
- December page finished
- Beaded Houses
- November BJP finished!
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Participating Members
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~ Blessings ~
This is just for us. This is our place and our time to let it all hang out, to let ourselves be carried away in the moment, to let go of judgments and interpretation and planning, to go deeper than words!
3 comments:
Sue, that is looking good. I'm having trouble with November. I want to do a tribute to my Dad, kinda like Grace did for her son, but it just won't come. I guess I should push on & do December.
BTW...fellow Buckeye here in Columbus!
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This is a lovely companion to the poem.
Since the background fabric is so pretty, you might want to consider leaving parts of it showing through the leaves here and there (real leaves often have holes in them). Or you might want to use some different fill stitches, like the one where you come up, pick up 3 beads and go down a little ways away over and over (makes a slightly nubbly surface). Or perhaps fill one leaf with small matte sequins or size 11's sewed down one by one in a random scatter.
Be patient with yourself ... and give yourself room to experiment. Just don't give up!
Oh, yes, and November? Excellent! May I snitch your idea to make something for my brother-in-law? He'd love it!
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