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Nostalgia Bracelet

I call this bracelet nostalgia. I saw something similar and got this idea why not take part of my Dad's love letters and scan them, re size them and then also my Mom and Dads marriage certificate, do the same, plus parts of the photograph I was in with my brother when I was a baby. Bead around each part making a small bracelet out of it. Its reversable.

My father was a calligrapher so his writing was beautiful, even his ordinary writing was a work of art in itself.

I miss my parents so much.........my Mom passed away two years ago my Dad three years ago. They both had alzheimers disease.

Freeform Peyote Again

My favorite stuff, yeah!

My newest creation:

Ive been reinventing or adding to the right angle weave by Nan C Meinhardt. This is all free form and of course I love free anything. Ill hopefully be posting the photos from my projects. Finished this one of the "Beach" .

I would dearly love to go to the Bahamas again but since that 'aint happenin' I am beading how it feels to be on those beaches that are so beautiful. I wish I lived there. So anyway I made this gorgeous bracelet. I think it is anyway.
Continuing right on into what I'm working on right now, its the most beautiful thing in this world...........to me.......haha.........looks like cream lace with olive green sides to it. All lacy, which I love lace for sure, and little rose buds sewn into the open spaces of pearls. Sure is hard figuring out how I can fasten these. Nan C. says to fasten them with snaps............ugh........I loathe the metal ones, so I bought tiny clear plastic ones thinking that they would barely show up on the backgrounds.

Guess what? They are beyond cheap and they act like it too............oh Lord how I hate the stuff that is made on this planet just to make money and fool us into believing that any of it is actually going to work?
THERE'S no quality anything any more!

Now you want to go into why????????? No I didn't think so.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Cant always get what you want right?

So now Im trying to figure out how to close these bracelets the secure beautiful way. Always a huge problem on any piece.

Having said that, Ive also been working on free form peyote again and its so beyond satisfying. Did one in greens and dark pinks as well as light pinks and now I'm planning a clear light pink one. Very pink poodleish looking. Very little girlish and girls just wanna have fun!

Ive changed my thread and I'm trying this new thread as the owner of Wild Bead, Beverly, is swearing that its the best stuff she's ever tried.........we'll see? I bought pink to match the other beads.

So OK heres the pics of them, what do you think?

Welcome to my blog where hopefully we can talk about seeking more of Jesus and beading which is my new love in life. If you are a real Christian you'll know how hard it is to remain honest and free in this age when so many things have grown darker and darker. Church for me seems right now to not be an option. I was so hurt in the last church I was in I'm still finding it very hard to recover.

If you have experienced this in your walk with God believe me we are not alone!

Art has become my way of surviving the turmoil I so often find in life here on earth where so many cruelties are prevalent. I write this because I want others to know about spiritual abuse. I'm sure its not new as really nothing is here is it?

In any case if you have suffered as I have, we will be fast friends. If you have not suffered maybe its because you don't expect church to be like it was in the beginning. My big mistake was in thinking it was supposed to be what God intended it to be. Or maybe you don't think you have or ever will have a problem with church, that could be also because you don't speak out or ask questions or maybe you go to a good church. I am hoping you have found that, its the best of all isn't it?

Jesus will always be my best friend as He never turns any of us away and never says anything critical or demanding, that's just not who He is.

Most of my blog will be about my interests in life which are art and beading which I consider my art, and life as I now know it.

I am a cancer survivor and a crime survivor, an abuse victim, and fibromyalgia sufferer although Ive never understood that illness. if that makes any sense?

Please feel free to comment on my work which I will be showing. I love to bead. The word says to keep your hands busy and for me this is very peaceful soothing work.