You know it's been a while since you've working in your usual creative space when there is stuff stacked in the chair...
Luckily for me, we have a pretty free weekend, and it's a long one, so it was time to straighten up and break through my creative block. Step one, throw out the plant I have ignored...
Next, I did a little rearranging. Over Christmas I found this great thread/ribbon rack at Joanne's, and thought it would be a great way to store beading wire. I had a set of drawers but I like having stuff more visible.
One problem with the new arrangement - my bead board (aka orphan catch all) didn't fit. So I prowled around the kitchen and found some little used dishes - both from an early job in Japan - that both work and are infinitely prettier.
Now that they decks were cleared, both mentally and literally, I got busy with some easy projects that have been languishing. Some quick repairs for my friend Sarah...
Changing the necklace on a pendant I made with a Painting with Fire enamel piece so it's longer...
And a bracelet for my niece. She often sneaks into my studio when her family visits and leaves me a little pile of beads and a note. I thought putting them on memory wire and making a bangle would be cool for a teenager.
Then I got to play with this great string of beds my mom brought me from New Zealand. I think they must be polymer clay, and they are almost all different...
I mixed some of the blue/green ones with large blue glass beads, small clear glass beads, silver disks and chain. The large blue glass beads were from a necklace I decided I didn't want any more.
I also cut apart a macrame hemp bracelet I had started years ago that had a gorgeous bead by Jules and two other maroon glass beads. I added light orange matte seed beads and ivory beads that might be bone? Not sure, but I like this and it's way more wearable than the original bracelet :-)
Then it was time to get out of the house to have some fun at the new theater in town - it's all recliner baby!
