Eye Candy from Kenya

I've updated my blog with June's page along with pictures of a lovely contemporary bag from Kenya.

QUASI CI SIAMO

peccato che sulla foto non si veda bene ma il trapunto è venuto benissimo e ben rilevato.
purtroppo non ce l'ho fatta prima che finisse giugno, devo ancora completare. sarò più veloce a luglio?
ciao matilda

On to the Next Month

Amazingly so, my piece for June is done. I've posted it on my blog.

It's my first attempt at bead embroidery and I learned a lot. I worked with Lacy's stiff stuff and I enjoyed using that. I might use fabric next month, though.

Have a couple of ideas for July, but haven't picked one yet. I have some other beadwork to pay some attention to.

Thanks to everyone who answered a neophyte's questions about bead embroidery.

Have a great weekend everyone!

June BJP Posted on Blog

I posted my June page on my blog this morning if anyone is interested in having a look and leaving comments.

I also have a couple book recommendations, I am a confessed, but not reformed, "bookaholic". Steve was thrilled when I started selling some of my extensive quilting book collection on Amazon.com. Little did he know that I was actually just selling off the books that were no longer of interest to me and replacing them with books on art quilting and beading, men can be so naive.

ColorWorks by Deb Menz: a wonderful color workbook that has beaded examples for all the color exercises. Interweave Press ISBN 1-931499-47-0

Designer Bead Embroidery 150 patterns and complete techniques by Kenneth D King: the patterns are mainly for clothing and accessories, but I think I will probably incorporate some in my pages over the next year. Creative Publishing international ISBN 13:978-1-58923-272-3

These two books are of course in addition to all of Robins books and the one by Larkin Van Horn that was mentioned earlier. Plus numerous books on jewelry construction, one in particular is Beaded Jewelry with Found Objects by Carole Rodgers that has wonderful pictures and extensive directions for beading with cabochons ISBN 0-87349-684-1

Have a Happy 4th of July, for those in the US and everyone else have a great week.

Beading Affairs

Hello Everyone. It is the last day of June and I have finished the project for this month. My affair with beads has taken on another turn. I have been like a big kid and started making paper beads over 400 of them in various sizes and dough beads about 120 from sizes 2mm to 12mm along with pendants. Used food coloring to dye the dough and then let them air dry. All of them aren't sealed yet but will have the month of July to finish that task, if I can stop making them! What fun. I wanted to play first and had a great time! Now how to incorporate them into finished pieces? No idea yet. Had to remind myself that I am in school and have classwork to do also. Being an online student at FMU, our summer vacation starts July 7-14, and I know what I will be doing. I have one more quarter to complete before graduating and plan to take off several months before going to the next level.

I did complete a bracelet and necklace set using wood beads and several bugle cloth beads. I also made black silk beads that was used in an unfinished silver, black, and white glass necklace, and was pleased with the results. Some of the beads are shown on a book with a grid cover that was made with the help of a friend (Dot). I thought it was a good way to display some of the beads made so far.

You can check out my bead pics at silkmystics.com Click on About Me link and scroll down to my or other interests. See you all tomorrow.

Constance

Last chance in June

This morning I woke up at 5 am, some sunrays hitting my room (very seldom theses days, it's like fall here, not nice). I knew if I wanted to make the planned June piece it will be the last chance today. Starting it in June is enough for me. If you want to read more about the what's and why's go ahead to my blog. Have a wonderful weekend where ever you are in this beautiful world!
:-Tally-:

Waiting on Dick Blick in Hawaii ;)

Hi, all! I'm as done as I can be for now if you want to take a peek here! I sure wish shipping wasn't a problem, but I'm having fun all the same!
And, I check this site before email too! It's a fun project & wonderful inspiration!
With aloha, CC

How I Start My Day

Every day, before I even check my email sometimes, I click on to this BJP page. I am continually amazed and delighted by all of your work! I love beginning my day with fresh inspiration and ideas and the chance to see some amazing art. Thank you all!

June Page is Up

Trying again, June's page is at my blog. It uses a lot of the colors I love, and some beads and buttons I've been hoarding. Size is 5 x 5 and base is Peltex interfacing covered with a beautiful batik (which is covered in beads, but it sure was fun to work with). I am not sure what July is yet, only that it is 5 x 5 :)

June block is finished...

There were times while working on this at the beginning that I wondered if I would really get it all beaded in time, but the more I worked on it, the more it drew me in and then I became possessed to work on it every spare moment I could find....



To see it finished click here

I still need to mount it onto my poster board so that I can hang it up...

Have really enjoyed visiting everyones blog and seeing all of the creative BJP that you are doing...

sammy

http://sammystuff.blogspot.com/

June Project Done

My June journal page is done. Take a look at http://heidibeads.blogspot.com/ I am truelely enjoying looking at everyone's projects. What talent we have in this special group! Keep on Beading..........

June fabric postcard done

Hi all I just thought I would let you know that I have completed my fabric postcard for June. It's a mix of heavy embroidery and crusty beading. I found it fun to do but a little time consuming as I had hoped to have it done by mid month! You will find it here on my blog

My June page is finished...

...but it's actually for May. LOL!! I decided to pick a theme, and it ended up being the names of the moons for each month. May is the "Flower Moon", and I really wanted to do that one first, so I decided that each month I'll work on the month that just passed.

Confused? Me too! Here's a link to see the finished page if you'd like.



Cyndi L

Bead Arts
Layers Upon Layers

Changing directions

Working on this first block has been a real struggle. It took several attempts to find the "right" beads and still I felt as though I was trying to swim up stream. Monday I took a long look at the work completed and realized my elephant "wanted" to be moving from left to right, not right to left. Flipped my image and printed out another block...what a difference! Now everything is flowing along. Made a great deal of progess last night. I will not have this finished for a week or two, but what a joy it will be to bead.

Dorris in Maryland

Scrapblogging

I just discovered this great webiste---Scrapblog, where you can create great "scrapblog" page(s)---played around some, and above is the result...

well sorry everyone!!! I meant to post this to my own blog--but the scrapblogger site posted it here (and I couldn't figure out where it went--didn't think to look here on this blog). But anyhow--- I guess some of you might enjoy this--so I will leave it here; and even tho it is not beading---you could use this site to make scrapbook pages/slide shows of your bead journal pages and print them or put them on your blog or website.

Don't you love the sound a Deadline makes as it swooshs by!?

I know I won't be finished by June 30, but life keeps happening here not much I can do about it.
One of my sisters (I have 3) is in hospital and will be going to visit her. It's a 4 hour drive from here, shame I can't drive and bead at the same time! Hee Hee!
Sis is going to be o.k. but had a fall and fractured her right arm in two places, they operated and all went well. Just slow process of recovery. We expect her to be in hospital for another week at least then we shall see.
Will bead when I can and let you know when all is done.
Dinah - Nospoj

Ancora giugno

ce la farò a completarlo entro il 30?
la scadenza è vicina, ma sono a buon punto.
potete vederlo qui. (grazie per la spiegazione su come inserire il collegamento ;-) ) anche se non capisco perchè non faccia ingrandire le foto.
grazie a freebird per i suggerimenti e alle altre per i loro commenti.
ciao matilda

June page - turtle

I wonder if the person who had a turtle on her June page could let me know who you are? I am wanting to look at your piece again, I was so inspired by the night sky. I can't find your posting! Thanks so much!!

I'm Almost Done

Hi everyone, I've so enjoyed watching everyone's beady progress. I'm almost done with my June page and if you'd like to have a look click here.

Update

I am making progress with my June Page but in all likelihood it won't be completed by 30th June but as long as it was started this month, I figure, that was OK. To see my progress go here.

Just to say I am amazed by all the talented artists on show here, it is truly awe inspiring, my favourite expression today, it seems.

Beaded ATC

This is a beaded ATC I made for an online class. It is buttons and beads on pink felt sewn through Timtex stabilizer. I apologize for the fan stitch; I wasn't used to forcing the stitch into such a confined space (2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches)! The picot edging makes the little piece too big for a traditional ATC, but I think it is cheerful nonetheless. The filler beads in the negative spaces are moss stitch, which I love to do.

Andrea, Minnesota

3 days to go

Hi everyone
I enjoy reading all the posts to this site and have had time to visit some of the blog postings. I am totally amazed at the diversity in terms of techniques, themes, sizes and shapes of the projects!
Myself, I am struggling with my piece and although I have started a BJP blog I don't feel ready yet to show it to all of you talented people. I guess it's my same old, same old. My daughter once said that I am "the Melinda quilter", which only makes sense to you if you watched American Idol. But she nailed it. How did my daughter get so smart at only 15 years old???!?
I wish I could just leave it and start something new, like maybe just skip June and go straight to July!?! But I know it is good for me to stay with this issue and hopefully make some progress...I know that this is about pushing my creative edge and challenging old limits. And that is what the whole project is about... so lucky me...I get to work hard right from the start!
If you want to read about how I am trying to work this out, you can check out my latest posting on my quilting blog here. But you won't see any photos of my BJP!
I hope that those of you who are finishing will keep posting and encouraging the rest of us who may be struggling with the end of the first month approaching!

Updates

Good evening everyone, I am almost done with my page. I had hoped to get it done before the month ends and only have a few days. I am off to Beads on the Vine, so we will see.

I also wanted to tell all of you, a good book that would be inspirational for our project but is about ATC's is: 1,000 Artist Trading Cards: Innovative and Inspired Mixed Media ATCs (1000 Series) (Paperback) by Patricia Bolton (Author) (copied from amazon.com)



It is really nice and needless to say has lots of beading ideas.



Here is my blog with my updated picture:

http://nancybead-misc.blogspot.com/





Happy beading everyone. I look forward to the updates and seeing the other completed pages when I get back to a computer Monday night. I want to thank all of you that have looked at my blog and commented. I also want to thank all of you that have been sharing your work. It has been uniformingly excellent work and I have really enjoyed seeing all of them!



Have a great few days, Nancy.



P.S. Can anyone tell me how to post my blog site by saying, this is my blog, rather than listing the page each time?

Translations

I just put a translator link on my blog. I am wondering if it would be okay to put one on the BJP blog to make it simple for those who don't speak english. Robin? Anyone interested in this idea can see it at the top, right-hand side of my blog.

Finished!

My June page is finished! Peek here if you'd like:

www.marshalljodie.blogspot.com