tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37444706065192304112024-03-14T07:16:19.985+02:00Studio183To bead or not to bead.....silly question!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11880783473404051809noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3744470606519230411.post-23927099413833679492013-09-22T22:01:00.001+02:002013-09-22T22:01:47.245+02:0025% off beading patterns<h1 class="h1" style="color: #202020; display: block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 34px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I just love extra wide cuffs and this one really fits the bill for me. It has the width and the weight, it's not blingy (I'm just not that way inclined ) but it is super interesting with the textured layer that is added and it curls gently like and old friend around your wrist.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, If you are a blingy type of gal...you can play around with the pattern (once you have learned how to embellish this Pondo Cuff) and add sparkle and shine to your hearts content. 2mm crystals and tiny drops come to mind.....I would love to see what UPPER CRUST looks like all blinged up.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I recently spent a wonderful week in The Waterberg, in a private game lodge called Mabula Lodge. I was nestled away in Camp Mojadji, which is named after an African Rain Queen. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Where better than in the bush to write my new pattern. What better reason would there be to work with an old African beading stitch better known as PONDO STITCH but also referred to as AFRICAN CIRCLE STITCH. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are not many patterns available for this wonderful stitch. I first came across it in a South African Beading magazine a few years back and did bead up the cuff. Something was missing tho, it was too sloppy and loose, which did not appeal to me.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JJ60jt7r9eg/UfVKsVrRUBI/AAAAAAAACn0/5FmtXs5DPeA/s1600/6th+July+(25).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JJ60jt7r9eg/UfVKsVrRUBI/AAAAAAAACn0/5FmtXs5DPeA/s200/6th+July+(25).jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I beaded up a number of cuffs, which I sold. I had it in mind that I should write up an easy pattern with a bit of interest and it was only when I knew that I was going away, for a week, on my own, that I knew it was time to make good on the idea. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, amid the game drives, Elephant rides and peaceful views (plus a bottle of Red), I sat down and did just that and MOJADJI was born.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yep, winter is trying to push it's foot into the door. Not that I am complaining...summer was a real tart this year, all hot and steamy, which is the last thing you want when menopause is your new 'best friend'. Yeah well, as they say, 'Life moves on'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It is now 8 months since I stopped smoking (can you believe it?) and it seems that I may have finally stopped putting on the extra weight. I should not be too unhappy about it...I only regained the weight I lost prior to quitting and it seems to be sitting there now...yay. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sooooo, I have been floating quite a bit since I got out of hospital last year. My Mojo has been in hiding and I even took up pottery in November to try and pry it out into the open. I majored in ceramics back in '78 and '79 but I only have memories of the parties that come with being an art student - I have never been fond of actual studying, I am a hands on kind of person ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Its like pulling hen's teeth getting me to sit down, be quite and actually blog. I somehow find this side of my "business" very difficult to do!. So many things distract me waaaay to easily. Let's see....there's baking a yummy cake on a Wednesday, to take to my pottery class on a Thursday - I spend the entire day there mucking about with pliable and (mostly) obedient clay, trying to create something beautiful at the end. I can afford to spend this day doing just this because...I GAVE UP SMOKING 6 MONTH AGO! That also explains why I am baking cakes ..... my mouth wants, no, neeeeeeeds to have a delicious slice (or more) of heaven to lovingly chew on and savour. A reward that is certainly not doing my waistline any favours at all:(</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Make no mistake...I am super happy that I stopped smoking. Everything smells and tastes better. It also means...it is six months ago that I had the op that saved my life and I am just as happy to be alive!!!!! what's not so cool is that I have been in design limbo for the same length of time. I had 2 ops in the space of 9 months and my motivation and drive seem to have gone into hibernation. I have 2 beading designs ..... half written up and I am finding it hard to finish the patterns - like I have writers block or maybe it is just lazilightis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, blogging is the first step to sorting out my stupid affliction and the next is to put up a HUGE SALE......to celebrate 1/2 a year of living a new life, smoke free. So, without further ado......</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Life is so very precious and it can be taken away within a blink of an eye....I know cos it nearly happened to me.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had spent the whole day (Sat 25th) making my Batty Hat for the Fancy dress party that Dave and I were going to. I loved how it looked and could not wait to start with my make up. It took me a while to put it all together but it looked pretty good from this side of the mirror. Dave came home from golf and I started with his make up, adding boils and scars etc and the results were pretty scary!. </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qjhLZOcZqPg/UE9VCuJP1MI/AAAAAAAABp4/nTMAQkj0z6Y/s1600/DSCF6025.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qjhLZOcZqPg/UE9VCuJP1MI/AAAAAAAABp4/nTMAQkj0z6Y/s320/DSCF6025.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Well, at the end of the day, not even Morphine took the pain away and we all thought it was a spider (I had a small bite from the day before) that was causing all the mayhem. Nothing was working and I was admitted to the High Care ward. By now I was completely out of it and only came round again the next day. I spent the next 4 days being drained of my blood and x - rayed to death to find out what was going on. I in the meantime was so doped up on Morphine and having the most awful fever filled dreams/nightmares that I did not really know what was going on or just how ill I really was - I had developed Peritinitus and they could not work out why. Eventually a Dr. Steven Davis insisted that I be cut open (against all the other doctors wishes) and so it was that I was operated on at 10:40pm Wednesday night. 30cm of my bowel had died and had to be removed and as it turns out, had it not been for Dr. Davis being so insistent....I would have lost my </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">life</span></span>. My total stay in hospital was 11 days and I never, ever want to go through that again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Okay settle down.....I have not risen from from my grave! Yes, I knoooow I take forever to write on my blog but, well, I get side tracked okay. Like by Gerlinde and I sitting down and planning our trip to Europe in Fall 2013....to a bead show.....to meet up with<a href="http://www.marciadecoster.com/"> Marcia DeCoster</a> at Das Perlament and other beaders as well. We even have a name for our trip - EBL Eat, Bead, Laugh.....mmm, maybe they make a movie....:)</span></div>
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was super thrilled when Marcia DeCoster said she would like to do a
blog on me. It's one of those things that happen to you, that makes you
feel really great about what you do....and then a touch anxiety creeps
in because you are also being "exposed" to people who have not heard of
you before! But, it is very exciting because I do know, this is the next
big "Push" in my life, in a series of pushes I have embraced in the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">I am mulling something over at the moment, but it needs some very careful concideration for me to make the right decision. If I decide to go ahead, there is then whether I downsize the idea or not........curious? Me too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thank you Marcia. Your philosophy of sharing
knowledge is the same by which I try to live my own life. These are the keys that lead to
true joy, happiness and great success :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">You know those upright plastic, pull out draws type of storage - the type meant for nuts bolts etc? I just about bought the place out when I embarked on my journey to organization. I loved the fact that colors and sizes where given their respective places and that I could pull a draw out at whim..........Hah!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">It did not long for me to realize that the drawers were unstable and opaque, making them redundant! I had lost my feelings of deep love for them and realized that we had to part ways. The next step was to use clear plastic peanut butter jars (and some smaller ones) to hold my stock, which from the get go, I bought in bulk. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Needless to say, we parted ways as well and I know have a system that works for me and my erroneous purchases have been passed on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My recent Aha! purchase was these wonderful pill containers. They are not those silly little small ones - these are meant for buttons etc. I have packed all my crystals and findings in these but the best part is my PALETTE BOXES!! The bulk of my stock is packed away in big roll around drawers but working stock is in smaller round containers, in division boxes on my shelves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We all have a tendency to work in certain color ways and when I had to stay in the vicinity of my bed for 3 weeks (hysterectomy), I could not just walk out to my studio to get a bit of this or that. I had to get organized so I grabbed a few of the boxes and packed beads, thread and findings according to what I was going to make. It worked so well for me that I have never unpacked those boxes. They are the Flour, eggs and milk part of my beading pantry. Black and white? I grab that palette box and then add the extra bits required for that project. The beauty is, I already have 7 "Ingredients"" at hand but I do still manage to gather a lot of nonsense around me :)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, back to the hardware store to find some more treasures! Beside buying various sizes of Circlips and washers (for my beading stash), I happened upon these small spring loaded clamps at the checkout counter.......I knew they would come in handy and sure enough, they are clamped to the top of my info board and house my chain and big reels of Nymo thread. Let me tell you, THAT in itself has made a massive difference to my life. The thread is right there for me to pull off a wingspan without it tangling and snipping off a piece of chain with out having to do a Houdini on them......is BLISS :))</span></span></div>
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Poesie</span> asked me to design something for their 11th edition and I
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design process is not a planned event. I sort of have an idea which color
pallet/direction I want to play in and I tend to go to </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/P1Ib0qsQSy4" target="_blank">Cubic Right Angle Weave</a>
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things I might use and stack them on my table....try t</span>his or that until I have
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will have smoked (yes, yes....I know) the packet that my cigs came
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about how to create a </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/81041986/cubic-raw-pendant-bead-weaving-pattern" target="_blank">3D Cube</a> and a </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/76466666/cubic-raw-medieval-cross-beading-pattern?ref=v1_other_2" target="_blank">Medieval Cross</a></span><b>.</b> The beauty is, once the cuff pattern had
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">when Steve Weiss of the Bead Smith approached myself and 27 other <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/230922313643650/photos/" target="_blank">Designers</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.helby.com/NA/NA082611_PL-cust.pdf" target="_blank">Elegant Elements</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">clasps</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">I am not known for delicate and dainty work so, <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #f1c232;">Thistle Cuff</span>
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written up and again, as I write up Thi<span style="font-size: small;">stle Cuff, the pattern for the Fan Pull will be done almost at the same time and I</span> just know...there is a ring in there as well but by then, I will need to get a Bull Dozer to remove the residue of my Design Process!!!!!</span></div>
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I live in Africa and there are no Reindeer in training for the oh so jolly season of Christmas parties, spending way too much money and drinking far too many "Cheers to next year" drinks.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We swim to beat off the heat, Braai (barbeque) thick juicy steaks and Boerewors to eat with crisp green salad and potato bakes and have generous amounts of tall, cold (clinkity clink) alcoholic beverages. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Come Christmas Day and families gather for a big, all out, too much food feast - yet managing to force down generous portions of you Aunties yummy pudding. Names get pulled out of a hat and presents swopped, opened and put aside....need another drink after that cos you did not get what you hoped for. But, we have a great day melting in the sun - okay so a snow man would go down well round about then..only cos we could throw ourselves onto it to enjoy the cooling benefits<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> of poor old Frosty. </span>But...we do love to decorate the festive tree...even if it is a shop bought specimen, we go all out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These wonderful little Tree Dangles have been added to my growing collection of unique Christmas Decorations, along with my Dangling Drums that I made a few years back .. yes, I will post a "How To Make em" article next.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jingles are fun and quick to make..but wait..there's more - just a few changes and you also get a smashing pair of earrings. All for only <a href="http://beadingweavingpattern.com/" target="_blank"><b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">$3.00</b></a> and there is a further 10% off if you use Coupon Code 10!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I will be turning 60 in 8 years time and I dare not blink in case the years disappear and I have to blow out too many candles. Hopefully I will have had the time to clean the house, plant, grow, pick and eat the vegetables as well as remind my beading stash that I do still exist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif; font-size: small;">Make no mistake...These are BIG and are for the bold and daring wearer. They also chew through your bead stash (40g 8o beads alone) and take just that little bit longer to make than you think they will but.....they are really really cool to wear.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div>
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