Fuel.

Taking a break from beading to indulge in my guilty pleasure: yakisoba noodles, cabbage, carrots, snow peas, mushrooms, onions and garlic!  So easy to make and fun to eat with chop sticks. Mmmmmm.

I have awakened the beast...

I found this beautiful pendant in a bead shop in Morro Bay years ago, I think. I'd like to give credit to the artist. Maybe someone will recognize it. Anyway, I started by beading around the pendant with a delicate, pretty stitch I learned from Lisa Kan's book Bead Romantique. Oh and the little flower with the pearl in the center is another one of her designs. Then I made basic spiral ropes. Instead of having the spirals on both sides going in the same direction, I corrected this old habit and pushed the spiral loops to the opposite side on the 2nd rope. It worked. Trial and error. So, I like where this is going. It needs more fringe. I am using my notes from Kandra's class with the Face. And it needs a clasp & I have the perfect button. Can't wait to wear it. It's going to be another late night! The beast is hungry!

my laptop is kaput. really kaput. but my tomatoes and mini roses are growing gangbusters.

It's Summer 2015 & it has been a very interesting year, full of challenges and I miss writing in my blog. I got the big idea to finally update my laptop's ancient software and it didn't go well. 8 years of stuff...gone. Should have left it to the professionals but the optical lens is also history and since it was so old so there's the parts issue... anyway I hope I saved something. So I have this little Kindle reader I really enjoy and if I can figure out a way to take a decent picture with it, then figure out how to retrieve it maybe I can update my blog. And just in time to start a new B.E. piece! Time to try...

success! Yeah Kindle!😆