Treasures by Louise

Check out the giveaway at Lori Anderson's Pretty Things Blog: Edit: This giveaway is over. Congrats to the winner! There's another giveaway,  (you know how I love these) and you can win a marvelous book; seven chances to win in all! Check out Lori's post and review. Here's the link: calling-all-seed-beaders-book-giveaway.html The title is Beading All-Stars: 20 Jewelry Projects It looks to be just the thing to kick up my skills a couple of notches! Have Fun and Good Luck! This is a Beaded Bead I made earlier this year - just for fun! P.S. I can't get the link for a picture of the book to work, so here is a beaded bead ( not from the book ).

While at the Library, I was looking for bead related books, to see if there was something new. I was thinking seed beads: off-loom bead-weaving or bead embroidery. I wanted to learn more about doing a picot edge for a bracelet that I started. (It won't need that picot edge for a while, but I was anticipating the challenge!) I found my tutorial on beaded picot edge in a wonderful book about beaded quilts. Wow! Two of my great passions together in one book, and what quilts they were, too! Whether you are a beader or a quilter, you will LOVE looking at this book.  My first passion, and the cause of my overflowing fabric stash was quilting, or collecting quilt fabrics, if you will. ;) While I have set aside making quilts in the last few years, I still have a love and appreciation of fabric, bed quilts, art quilts, and all things mixed-media. So I highly recommend this book for both the tutorials on bead embroidery and the beautiful quilts pictured inside. Here is a link to Amaz...

Here are my tins, coated with gesso and ready for decoration. I also am going to use an old Home Economics textbook for an altered art journal. Altoid Tins with Gesso Sometimes the process is as much fun as the result. One of my friends has started her "Christmas Chest" by starting altered journals for gifts. I love that idea! Now to turn the unfinished objects into something special!

We are reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle for our church book group, and I am getting hungry reading it. Chapter two speaks of early spring vegetables, including asparagus. So we had asparagus for dinner on Saturday. (From the grocery store.) Now to track down my other favorite spring food - rhubarb! Barnes and Noble Books . I also have lots of reading to do by Wednesday!