Beading in the New Year | Weekly Beadditudes with Dara

Beading in the New Year

The world is full of people who start things and don’t finish them. Heartbreaking, isn’t it? Imagine all the bits and parts of promising artworks that are laying stagnant and long forgotten in a drawer because their creator got distracted, frustrated or bored. Its not that they don’t have potential. They just became dormant the second we took our eyes of them to focus on something else. But there they are. Dust magnets.

Aside from using up valuable drawer space and monopolizing valuable beads that you could be putting to better designs, these incomplete fragments of forgotten ideas could be better appreciated if say, adopted out. So I’m on a hunt. Scouring my bead stash, looting my seed beads drawers, and a full blown archeological dig in my bead case caused quite a few of these beginning-project-wisps to surface. I admit that seeing them again ignited some new interest, but who am I kidding? Not me. So in a bag they went.

A Purpose for Purging

For a moment I remember back to about a year ago when I did a similar clean out and then had a “garage sale” of sorts to rid myself of such undone bead projects. It was called Bead Girl’s Great Garage Give-away and you can read about it in detail if you check the archives and look for my post called Bead Girl Goes Green. My beady friends also cleaned out and we gave each other permission, so to speak, to steal them from each other. I got rid of a ton of partially completed things, only to find a few things that I wanted to adopt! Did I ever do something with those things? Sadly, no. They’re in my pile and will soon be liberated from me.

Now...what to do with them? My question was answered in seconds when my phone rang and it was my friend Donna. “What are you doing?”, she asked. Hook, line and sinker. I had her. “Mine!”, she hollered! So, ok. Problem solved. Now I am totally project free. Oh, it feels really good. And I’ll tell you why.

A Clean Slate

Now I’m free and clear to begin the projects I’m so craving to do. Even though its still December, I’m mentally functioning in the Spring. My plans are to do a new fangled multi-strand daisy chain bracelet first. I know, how ho-hum can you get, but wait until you see it. Daisy has met her match. Another idea I have involves free-form weaving and a tidal pool. Free-form is a new genre for me, having spent years wrinkling my nose at trying it. I’ve never seen free-form that I liked very much. Then I stumbled upon a bead artist named Darcy, aka The Jade Dog (who’s real last name is not published) and her freeform is gorgeous to me. Fickle? Maybe. Or perhaps its beginning to grow on me. The only way to find out is to jump in whole hog.

The 2010 Horizon

So what’s on your horizon? There’s a big new year ahead of us, and lots of beading potential lies in there. Now that my kids are finally getting a bit more independent and slightly older (4 and 1 1/2) I’m going to make this the year of beading! Can’t wait! There’s classes I want to take and bead night’s I want to be at. If you’ve been a reader in the past then you know that I do a huge purge every January. Out of all the things I own, nothing is safe and will potentially end up in a yard sale or the local thrift store eventually. Beads are no exception to the rule. Not that I don’t have things that stay around forever and a day, but clutter is clutter. Time is short. I’m going to get rid of the riff raff and then make time to bead my heart out. By Feb. 1st I’ll be in full swing.

Fill me in!

Got any big bead plans coming your way soon? Fill me in on them! I love to share information about bead plans, goals, and dreams. Stay tuned for projects popping up as they’re in the works! And forward me any of your own. I’ll love to see!

Happy and joyful New year to you all! Wishing you all a safe and prosperous 2010!

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