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I just did a nice long post and it seems to have got lost...I forgot what I said, hopefully it somehow surfaces or I find it. I will try to reconstruct it later.

What's new...

Actually not too much new. I have not posted for awhile, nor have I done any beading since I finished my July page. I had planned on it, but the beading muse was not working. I have done some knitting and lots of reading. I also decided to try to get rid of some old magazines that I have not touched in quite awhile, so I have been productive and got some insipiration.

I also took a short trip to Portland, OR, beautiful area. Nice and green. I went to two bead stores and did not see anything I had to have, always strange to me. I did get some nice yarn however.

I am going to get my August page started today, at least as far as the set up of it. It will be covered in beads, but will have material underneath and it will be a different color scheme. But it will be my other favorite color to work with and I have lots of beads and material in this particular color!

I have been reading everyone's posts and enjoying all of the updates, I just have not been posting on all the blogs like I did the last couple of months. I miss that and need to stop and smell the roses so to speak and read all of the posts thoroughly so I can post too. I noticed some thoughtful posts I really want to take the time to read.

The issue I was dealing with came to pass, so now I really have to deal with it, or rather do some grieving. Change is good, (or so I always tell myself) but does cause some grieving, no matter what the change is. One thing I have learned over the years is that.

Thank you anyone that happens to wander by, I appreciate you looking. Come back in a week and I should have an update for my August page.

Off to Barnes & Noble to look at bead and bead embroidery books.

Happy beading (and knitting) everyone.

This is the post I thought I lost. It has been so long, I forgot how to post it.

July page finished - Here be a Dragon

I fnished my page just now. I have a feeling the pictures did not come out that well, so I may try again. At any rate, I am happy with the finished product and hope I don't go back at a later date and add more beads. I will need to put a back on it at some point. I really enjoyed doing the peyote piece separately and making the dragon and will probably do that again, with a wolf next time. Or a pattern I have that is the back of another amulet bag, it is a Native American pattern. It is really cool. Anyway, speaking of patterns, the pattern I used for the dragon came from Beaded Obsessions and was designed by Bobbi Assemi. It is only the second time I used a pattern to bead in peyote.

The beads spoke to me again too. The material I used was an inspiration to me this time around.

I am happy to have finished early as I will have time to work on other bead projects from Beads on the Vine and a new knitting project I want to start. Then my August page, which is planned out too.

Happy beading everyone.

Updates

I have been working on my page. Not ready to take pictures and post them yet though I miss seeing the work as it progresses. I am about half way done with my dragon and have picked out the material, so some progress.

Other page ideas: felting and sea scene, like Montery Bay Aquarium types of scenes.

On the subject of blogging and my page...

I have worked on my page daily for the past few days, but nothing enough to post a picture. I still can't decide how to position my fabric on my backing, but at least I decided on the fabric.

Once again I am going to comment, at least for myself, on how much I am enjoying the blogging. An easy way to keep a journal and always here for me to refer to. I just really wish it had spell and grammar check! I am surely spoiled in that respect and need to be mindful of my stream of consciousness type of writing. I have never liked to write much and have always had to adapt how I write to what the boss wanted, so I don't feel I have any particular style (other than the what I think goes straight to what I write style.) But I do feel I have a voice, if that makes sense and doesn't sound contradicting. Writing in the blog helps me exercise that voice. I am so glad I got the nerve to do the blogging. All part of the BJP experience.

Happy beading (and knitting!) Nancy

July page update

I have started my July page. It will be different than the last one. I am putting some material on my backing and not just bead on the white page. (I am also beading a peyote dragon pattern that I got from an amulet pattern book. I will post that when I post pictures.) I will then attach the peyote piece to my material and go from there. The material is an Asian them and is very nice. My dragon will be in purples. I have wanted to that for awhile so it allows me to do two things at once. Plus I am getting great experience at reading and beading to patterns. That is a challenge! So far so good. I lay the beads out for each row as I go. That seems to work realy well and I have only had to rip out one row. I have had to change up the beads I laid out a few times, but at least they were not in the work already.

I may not post any pictures for awhile.