This is going slower than the spiral rope I started yesterday probably because I’m hunting and pecking a bit. It is somewhat of an adventure.
What I’ve done so far with the 2018 TOHO Challenge beads
I still adore this colorway and am going to keep playing with it. I also received a free tube of purple TOHO beads at Bead & Button and used them with some of the Challenge beads to make a necklace for the icha2018.com charity auction.
The random box of beads. Fed with stray beads which get scattered around, unfinished projects, and beads other people give me.
Dragon Project
Start of necklace for Reptile & Amphibian day at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences next month. It will help to have a deadline!
Starting a Project
I get bored too easily. I’m constantly thinking of new projects to start or new books to read. I either get distracted by the next shiny object or frustrated with how slowly the new idea is taking off. I got fed up with how long a piece in flat peyote was taking and switched to my old standby spiral rope— at least 4 inches done in less than an hour.
Tonight I am starting a new spiral rope with the box of random beads I have— the box where stray beads and unfinished projects live. I’ve been thinking about this box lately, so maybe I’m supposed to root around in it and see what happens?
Pictures in next post.
Books instead of beads this summer
Of course, I meant to do lots of beadwork this summer, but I started checking novels out of the library. One book led to another. Library books have the advantage of being free with a two week return deadline, so I need to decide whether to read a book within a couple of weeks instead of let it collect dust on my to-be-read (TBR) shelves. I kept checking out books. Ironically, the books which made the biggest impression were library audiobook downloads– The Illuminae Files by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff– very complex stories and characters with romance, a murderous AI, and even a zombie apocalypse. I did do some tinkering with the TOHO Challenge beads while listening to the books but not as much as I should have.
2018 TOHO Challenge
I love the colors in this year’s TOHO Challenge. TOHO doesn’t have a link for this year, but for the artwork of past years, check out Toho Challenge
