Beadery ~ FotR

This very photogenic fellow artisan offered to model my pink necklace this weekend at 

Folk on the Rocks.

Caroline and I had a wonderful weekend chatting with people about beads and generally loving Yellowknife's community.

Thanks everyone for an awesome festival!

Spinning Tales

I finally learned to use a spinning wheel!  SOOOO much faster than a drop spindle!

The cockatiel's name in Vanilla, she was giving me lots of encouragement.

Thanks so much to Crystal for everything she has taught me!

Stitches ~ Swinging Singer

Spending the afternoon with Tom Waits and my swinging singer,

gearing up for Folk on the Rocks.

This is going to be great.

Beadery ~ Favourite new set

Extending the Chroma-Chrome Series

Beadery ~ Celebrating the Sun

         

Snapshot of what is to come

Beadery ~ Ptarmigan Tails

These are ptarmigan.  The ridiculous bird of the north.  They tickle me.

Here are earrings I made from their tail feathers

(which they shed in the spring... or when they die)

Beadery ~ iPhone case

I'm working on perfecting a beading pattern of a snowflake.

This one uses delica beads, and I think that may be the secret!