anlina on August 29th, 2010

With the exception of the label, my Stretching Art and Tradition 12:  Famous Pairs piece is done.  I finished beading the spider web yesterday and got the center of the flowers done.  Before I stopped last night, I had hand-stitched the top and bottom binding to the back and had cut out, pressed and hand-stitched [...]

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anlina on August 8th, 2010

I finished up Pamela’s crow book last yesterday and got it in the mail to Annie this morning.  I’m so pleased with the way it turned out.  I haven’t been feeling well this week, so I didn’t get any work done on it until I sat down to finish it yesterday, after cleaning up the [...]

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anlina on July 22nd, 2010

As weeks go, this has been a very, very unpleasant one.  I had to force myself in the studio this evening and was literally counting beads to attempt to redirect my thoughts.  I switched the ipod over to playing all of my Train CD’s and after a few songs and a good deal of beading, [...]

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anlina on July 21st, 2010

I’ve continued to bead on the crow, in between finishing up the computer.  I’m 2/3’d of the way done adding beads to his body.  They add sparkle, which every self-respecting crow needs.  I think I mentioned that I covered the cathedral transfer with silk gauze and stitched it down.  The picture of that is here [...]

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anlina on July 14th, 2010

I scanned my journal page, hoping that it would be a better picture.  It is, mostly.  I added pen and ink last night after posting, but didn’t do any work this evening on it.  I haven’t felt well since just after lunch.  As such, I’ve been a bit distracted (ok, a lot distracted) and not [...]

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