Beading Arts

The collaborative necklace that my artist friends and I made in 2006 has been on its last date. It arrived back from its travels yesterday, and now I need to pack it up and ship it off to Belle Armoire for an upcoming issue on collaborations. In August, the necklace will be auctioned off to support breast cancer research. It seems like a long time from now, but you know how time seems to slip away! You can read more about the history and travels of the necklace if you click on the post label "A Charmed Life" project below. Technorati Tags: handmade beaded jewelry , wearable art , beads , jewelry , necklace , mixed media

Here's the picture she took of it (isn't she creative?): And here's her post about receiving it! I'm looking forward to learning what outing Amy goes on. Click on the tag for "A Charmed Life" project, and you'll see all the posts on the story behind this necklace. Technorati Tags: handmade beaded jewelry , wearable art , beads , jewelry , necklace , mixed media

Our necklace made two anniversary appearances! First, a gallery sale in Washington state, at a hospital with Illaya and her husband Lee. They weren't able to get pictures, because someone stole their camera, along with several other things in a home burglary!! Sheesh. The next stop-over was in Texas for Bobbi and her husband Rudy's anniversary. Rudy took the pictures of Bobbi, but they forgot to get one of the two of them together! What's up with that? :-) Off to Leah now, in California. Both Leah and husband Chris are artists, so I hope they'll go out and do something fabulous. Stay tuned... Technorati Tags: handmade beaded jewelry , wearable art , beads , jewelry , necklace , mixed media

Read all about Wendy's date here ! The necklace then went to Washington state, and then on to Texas. Technorati Tags: handmade beaded jewelry , wearable art , beads , jewelry , necklace

...that our collaborative necklace has gone to a reunion in California! Next stop, Washington state, I believe. And then on to the great state of Texas! Technorati Tags: handmade beaded jewelry , wearable art , beads , jewelry , necklace

Here's a better view of our collaborative charm necklace ~ you can see how it all hangs together, so to speak! There are nine of us who now each need a turn to wear it and share our photos. Then it will return to me and we will auction it off for charity. Technorati Tags: handmade beaded jewelry , wearable art , beads , jewelry , necklace

A Charmed Life! So, I thought my turn to wear the necklace would be last, but an opportunity came up on Saturday, and I couldn't pass it by! My friend Debbie invited me to go with her to an art quilt show in Lowell Massachusetts. Lowell is an old mill city, and the particular building we visited was a converted mill. It is now 5 stories of...artist studios! All different shapes and sizes and contents! It was phenomenal. The show we went to see was a collaborative quilt and fiber art project by some ladies who picked a different quotation each month or so and then made a fiber piece in a pre-determined size that was inspired by the quote. We had such a great time looking at all their work, and afterwards we wandered through the building to check out some of the other open studios. Anyway, a kind of cool thing happened. Even before we got upstairs to the show, a woman stopped us on the stairs and said, "Now, you can't just walk right by me when you're wearing a neck...

Over the course of a couple months, a small group of my friends and I have been collaborating on a charm necklace project. I don't believe that any of us have ever met in person, but this project is working towards making us feel closer anyway! Each participant made a charm in an "ocean" color palette that we all agreed upon. The charms were sent to me in July, and this picture is the almost finished version...I'm hoping to finish it up this weekend, and then the real fun starts! Our necklace will be making the rounds to each of us. We will each wear it to a special event and have ourselves photographed with it. Those photos, along with a brief write-up on the event will end up being bound into small booklets for all the participants. This will be the first time I've seen pictures of some of these ladies! Isn't it weird how your friends online can be so much more real to you than some folks that you see everyday? The last stop for our necklace will be an au...