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oooops. i posted something here that was supposed to be on my blog...i can't figure out how to delte it so I'm writing over it. If you know how to delete please help :)

April finally finished on 5/9!

My piece this month is about my year living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. You can see it on my blog.

Slick Trick

The experienced beaders out there may have already know about this but I just discovered it for myself and thought I would share it.

I use small zipper plastic bags to store my beads. I bought a couple of hanks of seed beads the other day. It's always a struggle to get strung beads into the bags and not all over the floor. This time I had the bright idea to cut the strings of the hank over this pitcher (just a little creamer I picked up at the thrift shop one day).

For the most part it worked like a dream. The beads slide off the stings and into the pitcher. I'll admit that a few beads did get away from me but that was because I was trying to shoot the pictures while holding the top of the hank.

Once I had all the beads in the pitcher I was able to easily pour them into the baggie.

Because it's a small pitcher I didn't even need a funnel or anything.

I have no reports to make on finished bead journal projects unfortunately. I did January and have February partly done but I've been sewing quilts lately instead of beading. One of these days I'll get caught up and I'll invite y'all over to my blog for a party!

Magpie Sue

Baubles & Bits, May Project

I have finished my BJP project for May.  If you would like to see it and read about it, please visit my blog.  click here.  Thank you for stopping by!  And Happy Mother's Day to all moms of people and fur babies out there!

~ Lisa C...Indigo's Beads.

May Finished!

My "Spirit Doll" for the month of May is now on my Pinelands Treasuresblog.We can all relate to her theme, and I hope you like her!
Barbara

BJP so far

just to re-cap, I thought you all would like to see pictures of my project so far. as together they start to make more sense with the theme of the year


Januaries "I carry your heart"



Februaries "Wherever you go"


March's "Whatever is done"

                and Aprils "I fear no fate"

new BJP photos

I finished 2 more, see here for photos.  I'm experimenting with different ways to edge them, using fun yarns for these.