New Necklace Design

Here are a couple of photos of a new necklace design I'm trying. It uses herringbone (Ndebele) stitch and right angle weave (RAW).

A Wedding Dress & Some Loomwork

Exciting news-- I bought a wedding dress this weekend!!!!!! I managed to catch it on sale, too!I One less thing to worry about! I still have to do alterations, but that will be mid-February sometime.

Loomwork: I haven't done loomwork in a while and hope to get around to it soon. I have a really nice Mirrix loom (Big Sister Lap & Table Loom), but the ones below were done on a homemade one before I got it. Here are photos of some work I did a couple of years ago. They are both framed pictures. The shooting star beadwork is ~ 7x10 in and the tuna is ~ 4x11 in. My mother has the shooting stars and I made the tuna for a guy I was in graduate school with.

Myself and another lady are going to be the featured artists at the OSAA Art House for the month of February. That means we get an entire room to fill with our work, press coverage, and a reception. We have tons of work to do to get ready for it. I've been madly making beaded flowers and jewelry. The other lady is a gourd artist (carves gourds among other things!), and I get to make a couple of arrangements to go in some of her small gourds. We're putting our work up Feb. 1 and our reception is Feb. 24. I made business cards this evening and tomorrow I have to work on a bio and press release--Hope I can accomplish everything!

Reupholstered Couch

I found a really neat couch at a local thrift store and of course just had to buy it. It had an interesting shape, was very comfortable and long enough for Paul to stretch out on, unfortunately it had VERY ugly upholstery. So, I found a local lady (Ocean Springs Upholstery) to redo it for me. She did an absolutely fantastic job with it. I just got it back yesterday!!!!!! Here are the before and after photos.

More Jewelry

Some recent necklaces and a bracelet:

Multi-strands

Here's a commissioned piece I recently designed. Also, I have been accepted to to participate in the Ocean Springs Art Association Art House. It is a co-op of artists, and there is standards committee that looks at your work before you can become a member. This is the first time I have had my work critically examined by other artists, so I am quite happy that I was able to become a member. I get to do a show with another artists who carves gourds, in February. We are going to collaborate, and I am making beaded flowers to go in some of her gourd vessels. It is very neat to interact with these local artists; I get many different ideas and perspectives on my work.

Happy News!

Paul proposed and of course I accepted!!!!! We're planning to get married in WV this August. He proposed while we were in WV for our holiday vacation. We were out hiking and covered in mud when he did it. Needless to say, I'm very happy!

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Update: We've set the date as August 11, 2007.