I think this is my favorite embellished button. So far, anyway.

Tuesday I went to my parent’s, and Mom and I had an Art Day. We made cards. I had never done that before. It was a lot of fun. Mom posted the cards that she made on her blog, Focus on Fiber. There’s a link toward the bottom of my page, on the right.

Here is February’s Bead Journal Project. It is made to pair with January’s BJP, making a Mother/Daughter set. All I did was switch the two colors of the necklace, making the bronze more dominant then the green.

And here are the two necklaces together. 

I’m learning how to embroider. I’m not sure why, but I am. Sharon B, from Australia, has a blog called Pintangle. One of the things she does is called Take a Stitch Tuesday, or TAST. Every week, on Tuesday, she posts directions to do a stitch. So far this year we have learned Fly stitch, Buttonhole stitch, Feather stitch, and Cretan stitch. There is a Facebook TAST 2012 page,   stitchin fingers group and the Flickr TAST page. I post on both the Facebook and the Flickr pages. I’ve noticed that many of the other people doing these stitches are also doing the Bead Journal Project, as well as other online art activities. I think this is a large group of wonderful artists. Click around some of the sites and see what you can find!

A little bit more complicated. Two rows of beading on this button.

I embellished this bead with blue, just around the edges.

Here is January’s Bead Journal Project. I decided to continue the Mother/Daughter necklace concept that I started in November and December of last year. I will be doing necklaces in pairs. They will be similar, but not exactly alike, and they will have the same pendants.
This necklace is done in a modified Right Angle Weave stitch. Two sides have one bead and two sides have three beads. It’s a shorter necklace, so that the glass pendant hangs just below the neckline. Well, at least it does on my thick neck.

Here is the next embellished button.

 I decided to try my hand at embellishing buttons. Here is a before and after of my first attempt. I was going for something simple. Just wanted to enhance the design of the bead, not cover it up. I think I need to get some more of these buttons. I have more ideas floating around in my head.

This blue on black anklet is made using the Right Angle Weave stitch. Yes, I use that stitch a lot.