Focus on Life - Green

One good thing about all the rain we've had this spring...GREEN!

See other great pictures of green over on Sally blog,

The Studio Sublime

New Project -- Getting Ready

I have a show on Sunday, and I need to start getting my you know what together :-)  That should mean making a bunch of new stuff and taking a look at how my inventory looks.  Instead, I am focused on one thing that bugs me - a good way to show my Beads for Busy Gals banner.  It turns out I have a killer corner location near the front for this show  - and I don't want to waste the chance to tell people who I am!  As you can see in this picture from last September - it hangs kind of limply and curls at the corner.

 

My idea was to find the kind of frame that a painter would use the stretch canvas on, and instead stretch my banner across it.  Michael's had exactly what I wanted - in the exact size I needed.  I also found cool frame hardware to make it easy to hang.

Didn't it come out great?  Here's hoping it's not too windy Sunday!

I do have some new stuff cooking.  Need to finish these up soon, huh?

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Focus on Life 23 - Typography

Funny how sometimes things fall into place right when you need them to.  I didn't really have anything to fit this weeks prompt.  I was going to take a picture of my laptop keys, since my fingers appear to be glued to them often.  

Yaaaaawn.  

But because it's rained for like 48 hours straight and I needed to get outside, Michael and I put on waterproof shoes and rain jackets, leashed up Layla and headed outside.  When it's been raining this much there is a culvert nearby our house that fills up and is fun to play in.  Sure enough once we got down there I found type galore, albeit, ahem, not strictly legal :-)

I found more crazy fonts when I got home and picked up the mail - I am amazed that it made it to me! 

 It's a lovely set of beads from Jennifer Davies-Reazor - she made the June Component of the Month over on Art Jewelry Elements - and I won!  

Calling All Seed Beaders - I Need Some Advice!

My friend Jennifer has entrusted me with repairing her grandmother's necklace - one of the only items her grandmother brought with her when she immigrated to the USA.  No pressure!

 I need advice from the seed beaders out there.  I don't want to restring the entire necklace - the braid seems very solid and I would hate to undo it and not be able to recreate it.  I thought I could glue the large knots on either end of the seed beads, remove the current end beads and clasp, and trim the excess string.  

I would then make a new clasp with wire, looping the wire through the end of the seed beads, and incorporating the large beads currently on the necklace - something similar to this clasp I made.

What do you think?