Niki.Tasha – Lesson 14 – Amulet Bag Strap

Hiya, Niki. We’re almost done with the peyote technique.
A decision must be made how you intend to use this small amulet bag. Will you wear it attached to your belt? or around your neck? or as a cell phone strap?
If you choose to wear it around your neck, you must decide how long you want [...]

Niki.Tasha – Lesson 13 – Flap

Hiya, Niki. This lesson is in Flat Peyote: if you used the simple bottom instructions and didn’t choose the round bottom to close up one end of the tube, then you already know how to do the flat peyote technique.
If you chose the round bottom technique, then good on you. You are learning all kinds [...]

Note to Self 4 – Bead Journal Project

Hiya. I am really sorry that I can’t remember the person on whose website I discovered the Bead Journal Project. But, happy I am for having discovered it.
This will be the 2nd year for the Project and the 07-08 participants are just finishing up their works.
And the rest of us who are waiting to start [...]

Note to Self 3 – Beading Popularity

Well, you know last week my sister and I attended the first annual summer gathering for the members of the OCC (Ontario Crafts Council). It was held at the president’s farm on the Niagara Escarpment.  I learned how easy bead making looks when a professional glass bead maker does it.
Well, you know I learned more [...]

Note to Self 2 – Fire Mountain Resource

Another great download about beading from Fire Mountain Gems.  It has some history and some how-tos about beading and has something in it for beginners and seasoned beaders.
http://www.firemountaingems.com/beading_information/beading_resources.asp?docid=BEADMAKERSHANDBOOK
 
I neither work for nor receive compensation from Fire Mountain Gems.  This link to Fire Mountain is for the convenience of the reader only.

Notes to Self – 1

There’s nothing important really in this post.  I have been waging a battle with my design program and so far it’s winning.  So far I have had to diagram my own circular Peyote diagrams and they are rustic.  Just because it’s now done and attached to Niki.Tasha #12 doesn’t mean I’m going to let it [...]

Niki.Tasha – Lesson 12 – Circular Peyote – Inside and Outside

Hiya, Niki.  This lesson is about putting a round bottom on your amulet bag.  Later you may decide to make a round top as well.  Regardless whether or not you make a round top, it’s a good idea to learn the circular technique from the inside out and the outside in.  I have taken some [...]

Great News – Bead Oasis Show

It’s here!!  It’s here!!  It’s here!!    SEPTEMBER 19 – 21, 2008
I am SOOOOOOO excited.  I have been at every one of the Toronto Oasis Bead Shows since they started here and every time, both Spring and Fall shows, the Toronto edition gets bigger and bigger.  The artists who sell their pieces of jewellery [...]

Niki.Tasha – Lesson 11 – Sides and Bottom

Hiya, Niki.   This lesson brings your personal sense of style into this peyote tube amulet bag.  You have finished with the graph for a short time.  Don’t get rid of it:  it has your notes about the pattern on it.  Just tuck it away in a safe place where you can easily find it again.  [...]

Tools #1

I try to stay away from Swarovksi crystal, I do have some but it’s so sparkly that other, equally deserving beads can’t be seen.  This time, though, I was looking for tools.  Did you know Swarovski sold tools?  The selection is limited:  after all, their BLING is why they exist.
I found the all time neatest [...]

Niki.Tasha – Glossary

Hiya, Niki.  I have added a Glossary so there can be one place to go when you can’t remember what something means.  I will add definitions as we go along so if there is something you would like to see here, let me know.   …H
Fabric:  Besides cotton, linen, silk, polyester, etc.  a fabric or cloth [...]

Niki.Tasha – Lesson 10 – A Tube and Tension

Well, Niki, I finally gave up my efforts to decipher my designing software.  Okay, not really ‘gave up;’  I’ll continue in my discoveries with the software but for now I did the work freehand.  Please excuse my work when you find minor differences in spacing and alignment;  my work is a representation of my human-ness:  [...]