A friend recently asked me if I was interested in participating in NaNoWriMo – the National Novel Writing Month – the deal is you pledge to write 50,000 words in a month. Broken down that is 1667 words a day. Now considering I have trouble writing more than one small blog post in six months, I kinda thought I probably wouldn’t be very good at it and politely declined.
My beading journey tends to go in fits and spurts, I can be very focussed for a time and then have long gaps where I don’t think about it at all. I’ve come to the realisation that it isn’t something I can commit to as a serious pursuit. It is a hobby, a passion perhaps. So I have decided to take the pressure off myself. I will bead at will, sell when the opportunity arises and blog whenever the urge takes me.
Above is a necklace I made for an art show earlier in the year.
Lately I have also been participating in an online beading group organised by a beady friend Karyn aka Rufydoof. The idea behind Beading Babes is that a project/s is picked each month (mainly from Beadwork and Bead and button magazine) and everyone has a go. the aim is that by the end of twelve months you will have tried 12 new things and have 12 pieces of jewellery. It’s a good way to get the creative juices flowing. So far I’ve attempted two projects, the first called Camelot’s Cross was one I had bypassed in the magazine because it didn’t appeal to me, mainly due to colours, but I’m so glad I had a go. It was a lovely pattern to work on and I’m really pleased with the outcome.
Camelot cross
I’m currently working on a necklace called ‘sleek in silver’ which I’m actually doing in bronze. I’ll post pictures soon.
Cheers
Sharyn
