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Its just as important to know ones strengths as ones weaknesses, and no one
has to be able to do everything. Im glad you found your forte. Im with you, leave the flame to our beadmoths here and stick with what is fun, like looking at the prettys they make! Thanks for sharing, Diana -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "Beadseeker" wrote in message ... I started looking at the newsgroup, I think, on the suggestion of Suzanne Hye of Hye on Beads. I also used to go on the rec.crafts.professional n/g, but that was hacked by trolls so it is not as good as it used to be. I use semiprecious beads, charms, and dichroic glass in my work. The dichroic glass I fuse in my own kiln. I admire lampworkers, but I found out I'm afraid of torches when I took silversmithing (don't ask), so I buy lampwork, but don't do it myself. I do craft fairs and Suzanne sells my dichroic pendants in her bead shop. Patti |
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I hope there comes a time in your life (soon) when beads can play a bigger
part again, without sacrificing time here. The lampwork part... I can totally relate to that. Its so amazing to see the infinate variations of beautiful that come out of this group. Thanks for sharing, Diana -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "vj" wrote in message ... vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" : ]Could I ask you, oldtimers and newcomers alike, to ]amuse me with the story of how you came to RCB and why you stay, what ]brought you to beads and what keeps you enthralled with this lovely medium? i think it was Celine that pushed me over here. and now, between RCB and RAM [that's rec.arts.mystery], i don't have time or energy enough for alt.callahan's anymore, even though i download it every day anyway. and i try to stay out of the political threads here as much as i can, since i have enough problems keeping up in RAM. why do i stay? 1 - because someone ALWAYS has an answer when i have a question - even if it's just to refer me somewhere else. 2 - because i really ENJOY Kathy NV's stories, and Tina, and Sooz, Nicole, Mary. and Tink and . . .just mostly everyone. 3 - because i like being able to tell my customers "i 'know' the lady who made these beads, she's an artist from fitb. i have more and i'm excited about what s/he is doing now." i started making jewelry and dreamcatchers about 10 years ago - mostly trying to raise money so i could buy Christmas presents for Jamie and Johnny. my brother loaned me the money to get started, and i did pretty well the first couple of years in various craft fairs - enough so that i paid my brother back and did make enough for the kid's Christmas. then my life went REALLY haywire, and it all had to be set aside. when we moved up here, DH was curious about all the different kinds of craft "stuff" i was hauling around . . . embroidery, quilting, crocheting, and what was left of my christmas ornament projects. [more on those later]. when the ornaments came out that first Christmas, here, the kids started urging me to get back into it. my biggest problem is that i have to spend so much time "earning a living to pay bills" that i don't have nearly enough hours to devote to beads. i spent most of my 'inheritance' from my father on beads and supplies, and now i have a really hard time finding time to do it. of course, i'd have more time if i wasn't HERE, but i'm so isolated most of the time i need the "human" connection this place and RAM give me. and the 'inspiration' that comes from other people's work. it's been absolute hell on my wallet since i discovered lampwork, but that's a different part of the story. i have no desire to try to make it - my hands cramp too much to be able to hold the mandrels and the rods long enough - but i love buying it and just LOOKING at it. and i guess it's the lampwork, in all its variations, that keeps me enthralled, which is the last part of your question! ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com (Jewelry) http://www.vickijean.com ----------- It's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you; it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis |
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Its easier when you dont put up a fight, just go with the flow, let them
take you under. But.. LOL about the peyote! Thank you so much for such an entertaining and brutally frank look into your journey into obsession! Diana -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "Rachel T." wrote in message ... Well, it's 4:30 a.m. EDT, I can't sleep, and I don't want to watch a movie about piranhas, so I'll tell my story.... I have been an artistic "fidgeter" since I can remember. Art can be a good thing to help you forget all the crap going on in your life. But I won't go there. Anyhoo...I'm lucky enough to have at leats one person in my life who would "feed" my obsessions. I was always drawing, doodling, whatever. I used to spend summers with my grandma, and one day she bought some of those plastic tri- beads and some string. Youngin' that I was, I just strung them. I did about a gazillion of them and promptly took two strands and hung them from the name sign on the porch. There they dangled in the wind, and she left them up until they finally fell off. That was the beginning. In high school, I remember this guy (yes, guy) who brought in necklaces of simple seed beads strung on fishing line. He sold them for $2 a piece. I thought, I can do that. Not long after that day, I headed out to the local store and bought a little of this, and a little of that. So here I am, for quite awhile, with this really dinky "stash" of beads. My mom got me a little beading loom for Christmas once. I've made a total of 1 thing on it. I don't have the patience to thread it. LOL. Every now and then, I'd get bored and make something. Usually just seeds strung on sewing thread (multiple times of course) with barrel clasps for closures. A few years ago, a couple of people asked me to make some necklaces for them. I was stringing them bead by bead. I forgot about the little beading needle that came with the loom! I've even gone so far as to separate about 5,000 seeds by hand, by color. I was really bored and don't plan on doing that ever again. Ok, fast forward to present day. Well, about a year ago, give or take. B/f was surfing on the 'puter, when I walked in and noticed he was surfing newsgroups. I had to see what the deal was. One day I popped in the word 'beads' and voila! RCB. I swear, the first couple of conversations I read I thought "these people are on crack!" I had stumbled into the "close-knit" conversations the happen quite frequently. And then somebody mentioned peyote. I kept thinking they were talking about the drug. Something about a peyote purse. I think my thought was along the line of "dang, they sure are brave to post about peyote online!" LOLOL!! THEN I found out in was the *stitch*! I think I must've been on crack! Somebody would mention something they did, and I had to try it. So, in the short time I've been here, I have tried it all except actually *creating* the beads myself. I'm not any good at a lot of things, but there is plenty I can do. And now the kitchen table has "mysteriously" disappeared.... Now I can't seem to get enough of the little buggers. There are days I just sit at the table and stare at them, take some out and fiddle, then put them back. I like to run my fingers through them. I stay here because I'm always wanting to do something new, or get some inspiration. I can't help it, I'm addicted. I didn't even try to resist.... Rachel T. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons For you are crunchy and good with ketchup. |
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I got my beading start a few years ago when I bought a book / bead kit
in Orr Books (specializing in consciousness/spirituality themes) for creating your own mala ... Buddhist prayer beads. I made one for myself, several for friends, and although I did find that the beads aided my meditation practice, I found that for me, *putting the malas together* induced and even more meditative state than using the finished article did. It is a theme that Tink and I share. Process, or product? For me, process is where I get my big source of satisfaction, and the product is more a side-effect of the process :-) I found RCB about a year ago, in the course of using Google Groups to research a source for some kind of beads or another. I forget the details. What I found I'd stumbled into was not only a compendium of useful knowledge, but a very wise and generous group of mutually supportive friends. Near the point when I delurked, the group ended up being forced to rally together to deal with a very disruptive influence -- a troll who had been something of a 'sleeper' in the group for a long time -- and in that rather painful process I learned a lot about the individuals who hang out here, and about how best to weather the downside of Usenet's wide-open quality. It was my first experience with a totally unregulated online environment, and an eye-opening one at that. A serious attempt to wreck the group failed ... due to solidarity among its members, and a willingness to practice restraint when goaded by someone who knew where all the individual and collective 'buttons' were. I've stuck with beading because it still induces a positive altered state ;-), whether you are doing peyote or ndebele or RAW or designing fringe. I've stuck with RCB because it is full of interesting, tuned-in people lots of whom are addressing Everyday Life as an art form, as well as crafty people with lots of practical knowledge and experience -- who enjoy doing the kinds of things I like to do. Folks who are willing to help each other solve problems -- both the artistic sort and the Everyday Life sort. Deirdre |
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There is no good place to snip this. You write the way I think. I think it
sums up what a lot of what everyone else is saying, this is home. These are the people who feel safe to share with. This is the art that fires my passions. I do like the way you cut to the heart of matters. Thank you Diana, going off to think about process vs product as relates to this human being. -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "Deirdre S." wrote in message news I got my beading start a few years ago when I bought a book / bead kit in Orr Books (specializing in consciousness/spirituality themes) for creating your own mala ... Buddhist prayer beads. I made one for myself, several for friends, and although I did find that the beads aided my meditation practice, I found that for me, *putting the malas together* induced and even more meditative state than using the finished article did. It is a theme that Tink and I share. Process, or product? For me, process is where I get my big source of satisfaction, and the product is more a side-effect of the process :-) I found RCB about a year ago, in the course of using Google Groups to research a source for some kind of beads or another. I forget the details. What I found I'd stumbled into was not only a compendium of useful knowledge, but a very wise and generous group of mutually supportive friends. Near the point when I delurked, the group ended up being forced to rally together to deal with a very disruptive influence -- a troll who had been something of a 'sleeper' in the group for a long time -- and in that rather painful process I learned a lot about the individuals who hang out here, and about how best to weather the downside of Usenet's wide-open quality. It was my first experience with a totally unregulated online environment, and an eye-opening one at that. A serious attempt to wreck the group failed ... due to solidarity among its members, and a willingness to practice restraint when goaded by someone who knew where all the individual and collective 'buttons' were. I've stuck with beading because it still induces a positive altered state ;-), whether you are doing peyote or ndebele or RAW or designing fringe. I've stuck with RCB because it is full of interesting, tuned-in people lots of whom are addressing Everyday Life as an art form, as well as crafty people with lots of practical knowledge and experience -- who enjoy doing the kinds of things I like to do. Folks who are willing to help each other solve problems -- both the artistic sort and the Everyday Life sort. Deirdre |
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There is one who sells from a shop thats in the next town over, amongst
other places, and I havent made it in to see what his work is all about. He started making lampwork as a way to support his marble making habit. Go figure, eh? Diana -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "vj" wrote in message ... vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" : ]the infinate variations of beautiful that come out of this group. that always amazes me, too. and i know there are a lot more lampworkers than the ones here, that i've never seen. there are several near me that i've never had the chance to check out, either. have to do something about that soon. ----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books) http://www.booksnbytes.com (Jewelry) http://www.vickijean.com ----------- It's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you; it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis |
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and I will have a spare bed (well, not a room, it's ken's study, that will
be the spare bedroom), anytime you wanna come out!!! I can show you the scene out here!!! Mary -- Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. Drizzt Do'Urden (Exile - R.A. Salvatore) ================ MeijhanaDesigns - Unique Earrings and More! http://www.meijhanadesigns.com "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... I'm in Wisconsin, Tink. I have a room waiting for you. :-) Diana -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "Tink" wrote in message news I figure before too long I will have met EVERYONE here. LOL! Celine wrote: right now I'm looking forward to the opportunity to meet up with Tink and Jeanne IRL, on the way back from Canada! Then Kathy N-V said: I can't wait for January, when I'm going to Florida to meet Tink and Co. DH keeps telling me - "go! take as long as you need, your friends will watch out for you." |
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My start with beading is pretty typical of my age group -- I started making and
selling love beads in the late Sixties. I can't remember why I started doing that -- just that I did it, and really enjoyed it. I've beaded off and on -- mostly off -- until 1999. I've concentrated on beading (even when I wasn't up to actually beading something real) since then. I've learned much, much more in those 4 years than I have in my entire life before then! I started reading RCB weeks before I posted -- I'd already spent a little time on rec.crafts.rubberstamps, just to read a bit (I don't do rubber stamps anymore, and I didn't then). I also tried a Siberian husky NG, but those people were awful! Sheesh! I got flamed so much I got out of there. I'd had a nice little "home" on a message board on AOL a couple of years earlier, til it was discontinued by the Powers That Be, and I missed that sense of online community. (That message board, BTW, is where I met Kevin -- my husband.) RCB was kind of messed up when I first got here -- not as friendly a place at *all*. Then the WTC disaster happened shortly after I started posting. Upheaval, fights -- yecch. I'm not sure why I stuck around. It's a much different place today. I stay because I have friends here, and the common interest (beading of all kinds) is thoroughly and continuously fascinating and enlightening. The OT posting is always really, really interesting. I'm not in great health, and it's hard for me to make regular connections with people IRL because my physical energies are always unreliable. So wisely or unwisely, I do rely on this NG much of the time for my human contact -- though I do have friends and contacts in my real life too. What keeps me enthralled with the beading medium? I could write a long paragraph about that, but I really am not sure. I could give you a bunch of Reasons, but they're not the whole story. I often think, when I'm bead shopping, of our ancestors and their obvious fascination with beads -- how they used them for money, how they adorned themselves with them, how they held them in such esteem and gave them so much value. Why? I dunno. There's just something about them. I love beads, and so do you guys, and that binds us to each other. The OT stuff deepens our bond (though it sends some people away). I've met some people here IRL, and some I haven't met in person are among my closest friends. RCB is a thing that's really good for me, even though sometimes things get difficult here. But that's life. RCB is a bit more open to anyone, worldwide, than my real life is, so sometimes things occur here that would never happen IRL, and some of those make me less than happy.......But I've learned to deal with that, and this is good for me too. I check in with RCB at breakfast every day. ~~ Sooz ------- Let the beauty we love be what we do. --Rumi I'm not a hamster, and life's not a wheel. --Sooz ~ Dr. Sooz's Bead Links http://airandearth.netfirms.com/soozlinkslist.html |
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This is such a fun thread to see all the different stories.
I don't know when I came to RCB. My hubby pointed it out to me, probably 3-4 years ago? I didn't do bead work, and was just starting to make a little jewelry since I made lampwork beads and wanted to be able to put stuff together. I asked a few questions, but then didn't hang around. Then, a while back, I was fed up with the service I received from FMG, and wanted to ask a question here. I found that there's a lot of experience and great advice here, and it's a great place to go when I'm looking for something. I wanted to make some bracelets, but had no idea what the beads were that I'd used, and someone pointed out that they were atlas or satina beads and pointed me to Shipwreck (Now, that was a dangerous move!) I still don't do seed bead work, but love it and especially love looking at photos of other people's work. I just love seeing all the colors and designs that people come up with. AND because of this group, I got in on the pen swap and got a wonderful seed bead pen from Kandice, and I also traded some lampwork with Arondelle and got a beautiful amulet bag! I keep saying I don't need to take up one more thing, but I do love seed bead work! I'd rather swap though Keep up that good recovery Diana! -- Jerri www.beadbimbo.com To subscribe to the Beadbimbo mailing list, send a blank email to: "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... This recovery thing is boring to the utmost. Im reading most of the posts and catching up slowly, but havent energy to post much. Im taking this getting better job seriously. Reading posts is fun. Could I ask you, oldtimers and newcomers alike, to amuse me with the story of how you came to RCB and why you stay, what brought you to beads and what keeps you enthralled with this lovely medium? It would mean countless minutes of diversion for me. Make them as long as you want. We can just use up the bandwidth from one of the less populated groups. :-) Thanks in Advance, Diana, not feeling bad, just feeling tired. :-) -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 |
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a while back, I was fed up with the service I received from FMG, and wanted to ask a question here. Jerri, This is certainly the place to ask about FMG - lol. Patti |
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