Southwest Queen Head

And here is her head all beaded in l5's.

New Round Robin

This little Star will go with the Santa, we can send two items.
So Santa will have a Star to go along with him!

New Round Robin

Well its been a very busy week this week for sure.
This is a new Round Robin thats starting up and I'm sending this Santa. I love him.
The face was made by Maggie from my BAD Yahoo group and Rhonda Kivett make the form.
He will be gone for months and months and won't even be back for Christmas, sniff, sniff.
I hope he comes back looking like an "Old World Santa".

Applique Butterflies

And I was telling my long time friend "Hersheybar" about this project and she asked her applique group if they would make some.

Now just look at these, aren't they just darling.

Artists all over the world are making Butterflies! Makes me happy!

Nassau Appliquers, North Merrick, L.I. New York, way to go ladies, you did a great job too!

Butterfly Project

The High Desert Bead Society just finished up a wonderful special program for the Houston Museum.

In an effort to remember l,500,00 children who where killed in the Holocaust they are asking Artist to make butterflies. They will be a breath-taking exhibit when its done. The due date was the end of June but they are extending it, not sure how long, so there is still time if any of you Artists would love to participate. More details here: butterflyproject@hmh.org

Here is the picture of the butterflies flying to Houston this week. Most of ours are all hand beaded, some painted. Thanks again to all the members who participated in this great exhibit.

Sul's back

And here is the back of SUL!

Sul - my healing doll

Here is Sul, my healing doll from a class I took on my BAD yahoo group. She was a joy to work on for sure and I can't tell you how much I learned from her. You can read below in my blog most of why I made her and why.

But just to review a little, the sword charm is the knife that went thru my liver and caused me all this medical grief for almost a year now. Colors of reds in Sul for the courage to go on, the pastel colors meaning calm and to try and keep calm thru all this recovery, lots of greens for my new life and try and achieve harmony and balance in it, the frog for my transition back into real life and out of being sick, the garden theme and the earth on the bottom of her and roots for me to be nurtured, rocks leaves and the writing of her name on the doll for healing.

And a very special thank you again to our wonderful teacher Kristen Evans, a very very knowledgeable teacher to say the least, she truly has refreshed my outlook on life now. I want to continue in this avenue of symbolic teachings so to speak and work out more of ME thru my rock. I think that would be a great way to continue on with this journey. And the best part of all this, it was so FUNNNNNNNNN! Thank you, thank you Kristen again.

And I thought of something that my Dad told me years and years ago, "NEVER, NEVER STOP LEARNING DIAN, ALWAYS TAKE CLASSES ON SOMETHING, ANYTHING, YOU WON'T BE SORRY" Boy, those words sure ring true for me today!

New Round Robin Doll

Here is my new Southwest Queen. She will be leaving me soon for a round robin on my BAD yahoo group. There are seven gals who will work on her, so she will be gone from me for 7 longgggggggg months!

She will be so beautiful when she comes back, I just know she will.

I dont have a name for her yet.

Form made by Rhonda Kivett.

SUL's back

And here is SUL's back so far.

That FROG looks so big! LOL

SUL's progress

And I've been working a lot on SUL, my healing doll, this week.
Here are some progress pictures of her front.
I really am enjoying the process.

This was a class as I said last week from my BAD group.

I wasn't going to take it because I had so many other things to do and then I thought, life is too short, you should have fun too, so I dropped everything. She has been a joy to work on.

Thank you Kristen for the class.

UFO's for this week

And here is my work for this week.
Three cooper wire bracelets made from a class I took from Paulette Smith.

Hope you like them. I have more to work on this next week.

This is a great project to use one of a kind beads that you have laying in your bead boxes.

Wedding necklace

I was at the High Desert Bead Society Board meeting last week and just had to take a picture of this Wedding Necklace Paulette Smith made for her future DIL. It is just drop dead gorgeous with beautiful silver too. I'm sure her DIL will love it.

More Flowers

And my Shasta daisies are so pretty and the birds carry the seeds all around and now I have many more in different places I never dreamed they would come up. Thank you to the birds!

More flowers

This is my first experience with Lambs Ear too. I went with a dear friend to a Nursing home and they had these for the residents there to feel, feels just like velvet, I never knew they bloomed and I'm getting a lavender flower. How fun.

More Flowers June 2008

And my beautiful Dahlias, first year I have had these.
The nursery said to just put them in the garage for the winter and bring them out in the Spring. I sure hope it works. My first experience with these.

Reminds me of football Mums.

My Columbine sure adored the cooler weather this Spring and they are still good.