Anita Tamir's Page

Please, please, please check out this blog:

http://vyolina.skyrock.com/1.html

Page after page of lovely jewellery, and the generous woman has put loads of patterns in! Only downside - it's in French, although a lot of the illustrations are so clear, you don't need to be able to understand the language. I've already made two bracelets and a pendant!

... and I thought I'd share, although there may be some people who already know it. www.deviantart.com Make a cup of coffee, type in 'beadwork' and sit back and enjoy! There's some truly stunning work on there.

Over 35 years ago, there was a free gift with one of my mother's womens magazines ... a small clip together blue plastic beading loom. There was a pattern or two included in the magazine. I went out and bought the beads ... very basic colours and just called 'seed beads', no sizes! And the rest, as they say, is history. I came across it the other day (yes, I kept it ... nostalgia! lol!), and wondered what started everyone else on the slippery slope of bead addiction/obsession ... :D

Work is progressing well on Starry Night ... 60 rows done. But the strip is almost too wide now to work on draped between finger and thumb. Any tips on what to do when it gets too big to hold?? At over 300 rows it's going to get waaaay bigger! :-)

I've found the book Art Gecko came from! I knew it was here somewhere! It's from Suzanne Cooper's book 'Second Looks'.