tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:44:04 +0000where the journey of creation is as important as the finished piecehttp://beadline.blogspot.com/judith@beadline.com (Judith)Blogger220125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-4261798961623303667Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:30:00 +00002009-12-28T01:11:21.701-05:00Creativitybeading Getting together with Bev in New Orleans, or anywhere else, is just plain creative time and very good for the soul. At one point we were asked if our jaws were tired yet? We talked, yakked, and decided what we were going to try and do. .. Projects decided on and...... of course we didn't have the beads or supplies we thought we needed. Off to Michael's we went, looking for inexpensive, http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-creative-beaders-do.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-7776317930074426950Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:05:00 +00002009-12-28T00:10:57.322-05:00TripsWe left New Hampshire a week later than usual and what was planned. We moved, piled everything (boxes & furniture) into the middle of rooms, put the house into deep-freeze condition and hit the road West. We'd already had to shovel snow and it was cold and foggy. Planned side trips in Maryland and the Carolinas didn't get done as we stayed ahead of some nasty weather.New Orleans was in the midst http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/12/nh-to-az-via-new-orleans.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-4757775629545947201Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:37:00 +00002009-12-06T07:53:31.958-05:00TripsNew Hampshire For the last several years my kids have asked me, "just what day are you leaving for Arizona?" With one exception, in the last 8 years, the first measurable snow fall has happened when I pack the car and head West. Guess what it did last night?It's pretty to look at, but anymore I don't want to drive in it and I don't think I have any closed shoes left in my closet.It's going to be clear and http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/12/time-to-head-west.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-3899306521410533689Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:24:00 +00002009-12-01T19:34:16.102-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew HampshirebeadingSpent Thanksgiving weekend eating turkey, pie and moving. Finally got smart and hired 2 men and a truck to do the heavy things. What a difference; 3 1/2 hours and they were all done and it sure saved out backs stress and strain.Everything is stuffed into the new house and it may well stay that way till the spring. The kitchen, bathroom and bed are functional and we need to head for Arizona http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/12/moved.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-5243346412084580188Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:18:00 +00002009-11-21T08:27:24.810-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew HampshirebeadingI'm going to put everything bead related on hold til late December, including book & DVD sales from my web site. I've got to move all of my stuff to the new house. Then there is Thanksgiving, getting things ready for the trek to Arizona, driving across country, a visit in New Orleans, and getting the Arizona house opened back up. Whew, I'm tired already!On a side note; I'm in love with the wayhttp://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/11/bead-line-studios-on-vacation.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-1656057744481047746Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:19:00 +00002009-11-09T08:36:15.727-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew HampshireI'm finally seeing light at the end of this project*floors going down*The recycled click-together tiles in the bathroom are looking fantastic. I thought they would work, but until you see something like this in place you can never be quite certain. I love the bamboo flooring. My Son said the whole effect was "upscale urban townhouse looking" - all of that in a very rural, little ranch house?http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/11/floors.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-7821509022052498033Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:50:00 +00002009-10-31T18:10:09.586-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew HampshireBack in September I said," Now I wish I could replace my antique oak table with one of those retro red and chrome 50's kitchen table sets. That would look awesome in this kitchen."I was semi-joking when I mentioned the table because because I'd only ever seen one red one for sale and it cost as much as half my beads. 1930's through 1950's anything in red seems to be popular and very expensive.. http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/10/careful-what-you-wish-for.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-8329230091178842724Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:30:00 +00002009-10-30T08:45:06.040-05:00TripsbeadingTrivia4 years ago I started this Blog.29,800 visitors read what I had to say in that time.Thank you all for showing an interest in what I'm doing.It's been a journey with lots of changes. Many good and a few not so good.A little over 4 years ago I visited New Orleans and later created a freeform bracelet after the hurricane. This winter I'm going back to New Orleans. Although the city won't be the samehttp://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-orleans-4-years-of-blogs.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-2315188422241603741Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:59:00 +00002009-10-30T08:21:08.724-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew HampshirePaint instead of wallpaper? Should be easy, I thought. Well, not when some idiot house manufacturer applied flocked vinyl wall paper right onto the wallboard. I tried wetting it. I tried one of those thingies that makes holes and then wetting it. Nothing, nada, it still pulled a lot of the underlying paper with it. So I resigned myself to a lot of work to get what I wanted, rolled up my http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/10/summer-studio-to-be.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-3751755049443164807Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:58:00 +00002009-10-22T09:53:01.854-05:00CreativityBead-CrochetbeadingFinally - a successful test piece with larger sized beads!It started with this, an idea for more pattern space on one side of a flat caterpillar bracelet. Eight months of trials and a new graphing model later I had what I wanted. Using 15's or Delicas(TM) on one side and 11's on the other side gave me what I wanted. However, I have a lot of people who prefer to bead crochet with a base of 8/0 http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/10/designing-woes.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-6133367499710573308Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:51:00 +00002009-10-21T09:03:26.725-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew HampshireProgress on the house - of sorts!I've had this old Wilton school house slate blackboard forever. The only place to put it was in the hall. As the ice-box goes on that yellow wall I'm thinking grocery lists. My Granddaughter loves to draw on it and has finally learned to make lines around my lists and only draw in the empty spaces.Just the trim left to paint in kitchen and hall. Sink in the http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/10/school-slate.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-2819074023780692598Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:40:00 +00002009-10-15T08:57:15.312-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew Hampshire Kitchen is coming together, but I'm getting tired of the 3 coats of white semi-gloss it takes to cover the old dark faux wood paneling. With the days getting shorter I can see the colors are working they way I wanted them to. The lower cabinets that my friend built are going to be great. The best thing is that they are designed for the way we live and cook. After all, who else has over 100http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/10/still-working-on-house.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-8294814351663278670Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:41:00 +00002009-10-15T08:18:19.669-05:00CreativityBead-Crochetbeading I can relate to Sig Wynne-Evans blog post, What Have I Done? I think every beader goes on a bead buying binge from time to time. It seems to be as catching as the flu right now. I've heard that more than one bead maven has done the same thing recently.Caravan Beads in Portland Maine is one of my favorite resources and I went there to get a few size 10/0 Delicas to try out for an experiment. I http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/10/bead-buying-binge.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-1106341562686705668Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:32:00 +00002009-10-03T20:05:51.501-05:00CreativityBead-CrochetBead CavebeadingWith these cars in the parking lot, it just has to be the Fall New Hampshire Bead Society Retreat...... The Barbara C Harris Center in Greenfield is a beautiful place to hold a bead retreat. As it's only 7 miles from my house, I didn't stay over, but day tripped.We gathered, beaded, ate, yakked, ate, and beaded some more. .For me it's a much needed step outside of the normal routine, a chance to http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/10/guess-where-ive-been.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-1224306070366795410Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:07:00 +00002009-10-01T08:26:22.218-05:00CreativityBead-CrochetbeadingThe math is beyond me, but the crocheting possibilities are fascinating. These are not your Grandmother's crocheted doilies."A hyperbolic plane is a surface in which the space curves away from itself at every point."Daina TaiminaInstitute for FiguringInterweave Press articleThen you need to see Rebecca Peapples' Beaded Hyperbolics There is much more in their Gallery, including an on-going http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/09/mathmatical-models-for-crochet.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-852679623047652072Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:15:00 +00002009-09-24T17:46:38.420-05:00CreativityBead-Crochetbeading My first bead crochet book, published in 2002 is going out of print. I have less than 50 copies remaining and the quote I got to reprint it was prohibitive. I'm left with sort of an empty nest feeling. This book was self-published when there was little or no information on bead crochet as a technique. I've sold about 16,000 copies of it. It may not have reached the end of it's usefulness as http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/09/bead-crochet-ropes-book.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-1040518027816971873Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:35:00 +00002009-09-24T08:08:05.358-05:00Elm Ave HouseFinally, something going back together. A good carpenter friend of mine made me lower cabinets when I couldn't find the very plain ones I wanted in any of the stores. Seems that here in the East everyone wants oak or other wood colored cabinets. I wanted 1940's metal cabinets but couldn't find any that fit the space or were in decent shape. This is the look I am going for in my kitchen. Must be ahttp://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/09/elm-ave-update_24.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-5670998336507161166Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:59:00 +00002009-09-14T09:15:40.957-05:00 I was wearing this broad collar at the Bead Society meeting on Sunday and was surprised to have a couple of the members comment on it. They agreed that the mauvey, old tyme pink was sort of a neutral that could go with a lot of other colors. We shared it around and yes, it did look good with different colored outfits other than mine. Then I had a hard time getting it back as it is a http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-neutral-mauve-pink.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-8491827235516367522Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:33:00 +00002009-09-02T07:52:03.732-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew HampshireI'm beginning to believe that this house is water witched.The original drain system didn't leave us high and dry... one big rain and we had damp basement walls again. So back came the guys with the big equipment. They cut a hole in the floor and found lots of clay under the foundation. We now have another drain line and I have more lawn to rake out and get grass to grow. At least we're mainlyhttp://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/09/elm-ave-update.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-9168725129656715524Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:00:00 +00002009-08-23T08:20:36.210-05:00TripsNew HampshireIt was raining yesterday and the work to the Elm Ave house was outside wall work. So we decided to run errands and ended up in Portland Maine on the waterfront. It's been a few years since I've been up there and the old charm has disappeared. It's been gentrified and is so upscale now. It was still a good afternoon to wander around. Walked into one kitchen store and saw something that http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/08/portland-maine.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-181913616056385683Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:07:00 +00002009-08-14T07:26:29.746-05:00CreativityOh, to have the memory of a 7 yr old again ..... kids don't seem to forget anything. Especially if you tell them you will do something.I woke up this morning with the right word for my paper lariats this morning. The word I should have been using is lanyard!"Lanyard can also refer to Scoubidou, ( also called Gimp, Scoubi, Scoobie, Boondoggle, or Lanyard). It is a plaiting and knotting craft, http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/08/memory-its-lanyard.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-6869426053016958265Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:53:00 +00002009-08-13T21:23:34.694-05:00CreativityWhile cleaning up I found all of the Home Depot samples and color cards that I didn't use for the house project. I really hated to throw them out, thinking that there had to be something useful (creative) I could do with them.Well, Granddaughters make lariats. I made plastic lariats and key chains as a kid. I have this paper shredder sitting right next to my desk. Why couldn't I shred the http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/08/have-to-play.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-8330270547965551684Tue, 11 Aug 2009 01:23:00 +00002009-08-14T07:27:36.649-05:00New HampshireBead-CrochetbeadingJeannette Cook of Beady Eyed Women blogged about pirated artisan material downloads. Her comments are worth reading. I've found copies of both my books on several sites and it takes so much away from my creative time to try and get the materials taken down. This latest round didn't seem to include any of my stuff, but then again I had to cut my search short as the site was rife with virus and http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/08/cost-of-free-downloads.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-7308872440467141526Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:10:00 +00002009-08-09T15:26:15.478-05:00Bead-Crochetbeading Turquoise-String Beads - October 8, 9, 10, 2009 I've agreed to come out of bead hibernation this Fall and teach a couple of bead crochet workshops in the beautiful mill town of Fall River Mass. Nancy Valentine has a beautiful shop and one of the best spaces for workshops that I know of..I haven't taught beginning bead crochet for a couple of years, but had my arm royally twisted to do so. . http://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/08/workshops-in-fall-river.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18371270.post-1006272880199879787Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:59:00 +00002009-08-14T07:27:36.649-05:00Elm Ave HouseNew Hampshire I spent today gardening. The weather was almost ideal; cool, dry and sunny - perfect to be outside. It's sad to see what's left of the white Rhododendron, but with some care should fill out again in a couple of years. At least the guys running the big equipment scooped it out and then put it back when the big ditch was done. I'm just as glad that the overgrown ornamental evergreens are gonehttp://beadline.blogspot.com/2009/08/planting.htmljudith@beadline.com (Judith)0