Article on Beading..

With links to various sites, etc...
http://tinyurl.com/hmm8
Heather
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"Heather and Joe" <jshe...@aol.comxoxo> wrote in message
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The necklace that the red head on Sex in the City, Miranda wore last night
made me for the first time want to do beading. Has anyone made anything
like that? It really went well with her outfit.

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Heather and Joe wrote:
Thanks, that's a great article, although the comment
"It just goes to show that beading is an easy and portable craft,"
she said. "Your whole collection can fit in a 2– foot–by–2–foot box."
is SO far from the truth.
I have beads I've been collecting for 30 years – no way do they
fit in such a tiny area.

No way.
Carol

On 21 Jul 2003 23:47:55 GMT, jshe...@aol.comxoxo (Heather and Joe)
wrote:
Been there, done that... in the Cub Scouts.

you know I sort of replaced my obsession with beading with a make up
facination, and now, because all you alt.fash folks keep talking about it,
about a week ago I dug out some cord and restrung a few broken
bracelets.....then last weekend, I bought a copy of Bead and Button and the
cover necklace is really interesting: looks like a sea anemone (spiky lavendar
beads– maybe jade) a vine made out of woven light green seed beads, and an odd
hand made glass bead that looks like an urchin or a squid. Not sure if it is
the most beautiful or the oddest thing that I have ever seen. So thanks,
enablers....

Ha! This happens to me too. I bead fast and furiously for *months*, and then
I get tired and my eyes hurt and I start doing something else. But I always go
back to my beads – usually in only a week or so. It's habit–forming, I tell
you. And it's fun, and you end up with beautiful things to wear or give as
presents. It's peaceful, too, all alone with your boxes and vials of
sparklies, trying various color combinations, seeing which crystals go with
which gemstones, whether to use silver or gold, manipulating wire into pretty
shapes...creating something so unique... It makes your heart feel good. I'm
glad you're back at it! –– Beckie

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iKitty wrote:
Sure – if they aren't too expensive, buy them as souveniers. You'll find
a way to use them sooner or later, and their history will remind you of
your travels.
As for how many, two hanks of seed beads, or two dozen of accents
is my rule of thumb.