1. We admitted we were powerless over beads - that our storage space had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sparkly, polished, beaded sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn all of our leisure time and our creative impulses over to the care of the Goddess of jewelry making, as we understood Her.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our jewelry making supplies.
5. Admitted to the Goddess, to ourselves, and to other beading addicts the exact nature of our color combination wrongs.
6. Were entirely ready to have the Goddess remove all of the tarnish from our jewelry creations.
7. Humbly asked Her to remove our incorrect bead counts, design flaws, and mismatched earrings.
8. Made a list of all persons we had neglected due to excessive beading, and became willing to make a matching bracelet and necklace set for them all.
9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would interfere with our wire working projects.
10. Continued to take personal inventory of our jewelry making supplies and when we were short handed promptly admitted it and ordered more.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with the Goddess as we understood Her, praying only for knowledge of Her will for us and the power to carry that out in our next PMC project.
12. Having had a creative awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to other beaders, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
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My sister, the person I hold fully responsible for my addiction, recently gave me her entire bead inventory (as if I didn't have enough already). She's too busy with her new boyfriend to bead any more. Oh well [shrug] - her loss, my gain!
Perhaps one day we could do a white elephant bead exchange? I have beads I bought that I don't know what to do with them and I'm guessing I'm not alone.
I have lots of stuff I could exchange.
Sharon
Please feel free to post articles & photos of your work here! I have given everybody the power to post articles and images to the group. I want to see all the neat things everyone is making!
I'd like to welcome all different kinds of jewelrymakers, and all levels of ability. I think it's excellent inspiration and motivation for novice designers to see all the different things possible with practice. I feel it's also good for the more experienced designers to be able to give advice and see what creative ideas the fresh new talent comes up with!
So, feel free to join in any way you like.
P.S. Rickina, your designs are lovely! It is clear that you are an accomplished jewelry designer.
My bead inventory was large but manageable until my sister (who got me started with this beading stuff in the first place!) decided she wasn't going to do it anymore. She brought me EVERYTHING - all her tools, beads, even the suitcase she stored it in. My bead inventory doubled OVERNIGHT!
Maybe I should just open a bead store, LOL!
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It isn't all the tools that I would need, but most of them.
Hmmm I have to go pick up something Friday p.m. in Oak Creek for a product testing, so it isn't too far from Harborfreight.
Hmmm
I will be getting $65 cash for testing this product, just to stay away from Michaels or JoAnn's. What I need to do is design the cards for my earrings I want to sell with Pat's Birds and Beads on them.
I make my own earring cards using my computer, blank business cards, a small hole punch and those little sticky hanger-doodle things I buy from jewelrysupply.com.