the Akamai Knitter

Yesterday The Bead Gallery held a Seed Bead Party at their shop which is basically an all day event.

I decided to work on my “Odd Peyote Tube” project. It’s a very simple stitch and beautiful in its own right.

But being me, I decided to add something more to it.

Those are Magatama drop beads. They’re a little tricky to keep in place, but I think they add a nice texture to the necklace without being too distracting.

I’m just about finished with that section and I think I’m also going to add some Swarovski crystals and wear the clasp in the front. I’ll probably chose a nice toggle. I also have a lampwork bead to hang from the toggle, but I think I’ll save that for the final unveiling.

This project will probably be put on the back burner as I’m trying to finish the Multiple Choice necklace, but I think this is good incentive for me to finish what I have in front of me.

Scheyer finds seed beads absolutely scintillating.

Sorry for the crappy night shot, but he looked so cute cuddled against my cardigan.

I hope you all had a great weekend! I sure did! GO DUKE!

/ahem

Earlier this week I started a new necklace with some beads I received from Clint over at Auntie’s Beads. (You can find their seed beads here. I used size 11/0.)

This is turning out to be quite the very labor intensive project! It took me an hour or so just to do this much:

The pattern is from Bead & Button‘s Issue No. 96 and it’s called Multiple Choice. I’m about halfway through the necklace.

I’m not sure I’m going to be adding as much froufrou on my necklace as they did to the necklace on the cover. We’ll just have to see.

Gratuitous detail shot.

That’s really all I got. This necklace is just consuming me.

o.O

Happy Friday, everyone! Have some fun this weekend! :)

I had a weekend full of basketball and shopping. Of all the things I bought, these are the things I love the most.

I found them on my way back to the car from a rather horrible lunch at the Aloha Marketplace. The shop I got them from is called Millennium.  It was great stumbling onto such a fun shop amidst all the tourist traps.  :)

They kind of remind me of Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas.

At first it was the panda that caught my eye, but when I went into the store the cat grabbed me by the hair and threw me to the floor until I said I’d take it home.

Well. Not really.

But I truly couldn’t resist it. :P

The two of them now have a loving home on my desk, which I won’t be showing you. My desk is currently in a state of creative chaos.

Why?

Partly because I’ve restocked the shop with more Off The Hook Markers!

The desk also won’t be seen because I’ve gotten back into Art Journaling. I doubt I’ll blog about it, but I might take some photos and throw them on my Flickr photostream. It just depends on how confident I’m feeling about what I’m doing.

Frankly? After the type of service I got at the art store I went to on Saturday? I’m not feeling very confident. Can you say condescending?

/sigh

Thank goodness I have such furry love to come home to.

Here’s the final installment of Quincy’s three photo series.

From being peacefully asleep to being unhappily awakened. Poor guy. The things he does for the blog.

*Idea gakked from Cookie.

A couple of weeks ago I started a Twisted Ndebele/Herringbone piece just for practice. I thought I’d make a bracelet out of it, but then I thought I might as well make a necklace since that might make a dent in my stash. It didn’t, but that’s another story.

Once I was done, I felt the piece needed something more. So I made a little enhancer.

What’s nice about the enhancer is that you can slide it right off!

That little piece took me about 3 hours to make. What I did was make a peyote ring, then I embellished it by adding each bead/crystal/pearl/whatever one at a time.

Once it was done you better believe I did a big happy dance in my living room.

Finally,  here’s the second in a series of three photographs starring Quincy. You can see he’s heard the camera on him!

Happy Friday, everyone! Have a great weekend!

Back in February I bought a bunch of yarn.

Since then it’s morphed into this.

It’s my very first Log Cabin Blanket.  It’s for my mother and it’s in her favorite sports team colors. Both the Duke Blue Devils and Dallas Cowboys have basically the same team colors, which makes life pretty easy when you’re dressing up to cheer for your team at game time.

I’m having so much fun with this project! The mindless garter stitch is the perfect relaxation remedy when I’m done working with my seed beads or my wire projects.  And by a happy coincidence, blue is my favorite color.

I also love the yarn, Berroco Comfort. Yes it’s a man-made “acrylic”, but it’s so super soft and so easy to work with. I love the fact that you can throw it in the washing machine and for all that? I love the price too.

It’s just too bad that I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve had a chance to knit in the past two weeks.

Ah well, it’s not going anywhere and it’s not like a blanket is an absolute necessity in Hawaii. ;-P

Part of the reason I haven’t been knitting? I’ve been making these.

Don’t look too closely, some of them aren’t perfect as I’m still learning how to use resin. I’ll most likely put the imperfect pendants up for sale at a discounted price in the coming days.

Look! Kitty!

That’s the first photo in a series. Stay tuned for more.

Happy Wednesday, folks! I find Wednesdays the hardest day to get through. How about you?