Thursday, May 31, 2007

Here I Go

Following some strangely circuitous route I found myself a few days ago sending an email to Robin and the 2007 Bead Journal Project. From there I have found myself in the relatively new world of bead embroidery and blogging.

It seems another lifetime ago when I was still living in New Mexico and taking my first steps into beading by helping a friend bead her buckskin dress for an upcoming powwow. My first solo project was making beaded earrings in the same pattern we had used for the dress and I was hooked from that point. Life circumstances pulled me away from this love for years and it has only been in the last year that I have answered the call of the beads.

I have been getting slowly back in with making jewelry for friends and family, playing with the loom for the first time and generally just having fun getting re-acquainted with beads and all that is available now. I am really looking forward to this project and just letting my dreams and imagination guide me.

As for the blogging.....hmmm, this should be interesting as well. I am avid about journalling my private thoughts and spiritual journey, as well as keeping a book with sketches of ideas that come to me, but have never ventured into the online world of blogging. I am looking foward to this, as well as the forums and reading the journeys of my fellow journallers.

Trilly