The Stitch Witch, better known as Deborah Waltenburg, is a woman who caught my attention on eHow. She has a wide range of interests and is a freelance writer. Counted among her interests are knitting and calligraphy. From her work and talents you wouldn’t recognize a woman coping with ADHD. Read on to learn more about [...]
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All life, as I know it, must cease until my bathroom is repaired.
Last evening, while I was doing some research on the ‘net, I heard running water. And my sister heard running water at the same time. We walked down the hall to the bathroom, and what did we see?!
We had a water feature. A [...]
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MY FIRST ENTRY
There’s a new shop in town: the Etsy eSMArts boutique of hand crafted items.
Memories
Memory wire embellished with hearts, glass beads, and coiled wire beads: this is my first offering in a new shop at Etsy.com: the eSMArts Boutique.
At the Etsy gallery, where everything is handcrafted, a new boutique can be found. It is [...]
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Okay. It’s official. I AM EXCITED!! Excited !!!I picked out my booth at the ‘Almost Spring’ Toronto Bead Show, 2009.
I am planning and researching and building up inventory and … The list goes on.
This is my ‘Almost First’ show. I want to learn from others’ experiences as much as I can first. Has anybody got [...]
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Consistency: Uniformity, relatively speaking. You strive for that uniformity throughout a piece of work; whether it is embroidery, petitpoint, wirework or beadworkor anything else. In quilting, the goal is the consistent length of stitches. In Hardanger it is the tension maintained on the thread. In wirework it is the regularity of the loop [...]
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Black n Silver Amulet Bag Backside
Well. I did promise to add pictures of the finished amulet bags and I have been remiss in not doing so.
I’ve received a slap up the side of m’ head, figuratively speaking, so here they are.
You will note, I hope, that these pictures don’t quite match the graphs offered in [...]
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Well, I did vent some hot air in my last Notes to Self: Bead Journal Project. I felt better after doing it, so the venting did some good. I still don’t apologize for the bombardment. If anything, I am grateful for the individuals who challenged the worthiness of my September bracelet submission.
Why?
It made my brain [...]
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