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Beads, glorious beads!

My newest crafty addiction is beadwork. I’ve just invested in a box with many compartments and spent a happy couple of hours sorting beads by colour.

Bead Box II

That is my Bead Box. I think — no, actually, I know — that it harbours thoughts of world domination. They’re so shiny. So addictive. So…crack cocaine like! I can’t just buy some, I have to buy lots! In fact, the postman bought me more this morning. /sheepish.

And this afternoon I found, lurking in the depths of the crafty Aladdin’s cave that is Boyes, these:

Tubes of Mixed Beads Tubes of Mixed Beads II

Tubes of assorted beads. Some of different shaped/sized lustre glass and the others are a mix of seed and larger pearls in similar shades. I was remarkably restrained. And now I get to spend some time sorting the seed beads out from all the other beads.

At the moment, I turn my beads into earrings and stitchmarkers. I harbour plans to move onto necklace and bracelet designs. Obviously, this blog will be the first place they appear.

First crop of beadwork:

1. Stitchmarkers: Wooden Squares 2. Stitchmarkers: Dark Green 3. Stitchmarkers: Pale Green 4. Earrings: blue

1. Were made for the lovely Anatsuno.
2. Went into a package for Oscarcat
3. Have found a new home with Katie
4. My current set of in-ear earrings. :g:

This entry was written by Meg and posted on June 22, 2006 at 2:55 pm and filed under Beads. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.