My beading gift.

I received my registration through from Beadworkers Guild..I am not a member till April but they sent a wee gift ..the makings of a bracelet.. well I started it last night and beaded into the night..it is tiny pearl seeds and a sweety pink seeds.
you have to make it in dutch spiral .. well I finished the bracelet and found there was some of each left over when I had made it up to the size for me..so I kept on beading.. then I run out of pearl seeds .. i was quite dissapointed..
Went to bed and mulled over what to do with something too long for a bracelet but too short for a necklace.. thinking as i was dropping off to sleep ..I am sure I have pearl seeds SOMEWHERE in my stash.. got up this morning and found them woopee !! also found some seeds in the sweety pink woopee again !! well it is not going to be a bracelet ..not a necklace.. but a longer lariat type so I will be able to tie it in a knot and let it hang.. What FUN I love it ..

Beading with the Weavers Knot

I found this wonderful knot while I was browsing a Beadworkers Guild magazine, sorry I do not have the number. Since using this wee knot I have not had a mishap. I am relatively new to beading so I have had quite a few mishaps. The thing was I always lost the exact place where I tied my last thread in.. not any more. When I find it again in the magazine I will give you more information on it.

I have started another bracelet. Very different from my freeform adventure.

I think I told you the children are off school this week , thank goodness it is 'fin de semana' here in Tenerife (and the rest of Spain) the end of the week. The kids and I have been painting and decorating pine cones. They are loving it. Monday we start to add the glits.

Today is shopping day . My friends and I went on quite an excursion. We found another Chinese warehouse , wonderful, but sorry no new beads. We then found a todo shop, this is like a 99 pence shop in U.K. but this one was a bit more up market. It had lots of interesting bits and bobs.
We oohed and ahhed at all the really different things in the two new shops.