Beading Mad!

Morning all,

Well life carries on in it's typical railcrash fashion, bouncing from one thing to the next. Work is busy (for all we have a serious lack of visitors) and we've gone from one event - William Murdoch's Birthday Picnic -and heading on full steam to the next - Napoleonic Day [bank holiday monday] and then we'll bounce over the hill of a weekend on to the 3 days of heritage open weekend! Tiring? oh yes!

Nevermind. It wouldn't be so bad if free time wasn't currently split between visiting my nan in hospital - where the only change in her condition is the fact she's developed kidney stone! *sigh* and when i'm not there i'm busy job hunting! As unemployment is rapidly looming. If I can't get work soon I was thinking I may try and sell some of the things I make but I'm just not sure anyone would buy them..... must get my thinking cap on.

But my latest project isn't for sale - this one was all about me. I recently visited the spellbound bead company in lichfield for some findings, for various projects i've been doing for the church bizzare. But whilst I was there I fell in love with some of their projects. Now as i've never beaded in the sense of making jewellery with beads I thought i'd start with something middle of the road and choose a really sweet brooch pattern. I finally got around to making it up on monday and 4 hours later I was left with this:

I was really pleased with it and as i've got enough beads to make a second one (I think) i'll be making another one up just as soon as i've got the pin and larger beads for the centre of the design. Not sure what I'll do with the second one yet - most likely it will end up being a present though.

Hope you all like it and I promise I'll try and get round to making some cards soon!

Take care and happy crafting