My pattern that my Mom was working on is finished. She didn’t get it into the beading challenge on time though. She was supposed to have it done and online by midnight on the night of August 5th, but it was eastern time instead of central time. She just didn’t notice that specific detail early [...]
The bracelet is done!
August 13th, 2008
This is Us
August 3rd, 2008
I just realized I have been writing blogs about my life, beadwork, and embroidery, and you haven’t even seen who we are. So I figured I would go ahead and put a blog out so you can put the names to the faces. This is me. I am sometimes silly, sometimes serious, and sometimes neurotic [...]
Designing Frenzy
August 3rd, 2008
Well, I dunnit. I finally started using my BeadTool 3 to create beading patterns. My mom had been asking me to do some for a while now, but I just hadn’t gotten around to it. I guess it was partly because I was worried I wouldn’t be able to make anything good. Once I started [...]
Gina’s Baby Pic
August 3rd, 2008
This was the second embroidery I did for my family. In 1996, my aunt had a baby girl and I thought she would enjoy a picture of her daughter, Gina. So when the baby was a few months old, my mom and I found a picture that my aunt had given us, and I happily [...]
Grandpa’s Cardinal
August 2nd, 2008
I love doing embroidery. And I love giving them as gifts because it makes those I love happy. I try to find things that will be significant to the people I make them for. For my Grandma it was hummingbirds, but for my Grandpa, it is cardinals. This is what the cardinal project looked like [...]