Hiding... From all the negativity!

Darn! And I missed most of it? Just my luck. Nothing like a good catfight to get your life (pathetic as it may be personally speaking) in perspective. (sarcasm for those that can't read it here)

Life can not be pleasant forever else you will not realize it. Need the ups and downs to realize just how good it is MOST of the time.

Later,

Helen C

I stepped back. Amazing what it can do for one's perspective.

-- Margie

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Nicole--and everybody--the best way to make a place more positive is to say and do some positive things. Negative plus negative=negative, in the world of emotional colorings. Add something positive if you prefer things to be different.

Perhaps you'd care to disuss something...maybe about beads??? Sarajane

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Taking my own advice....

positive and negative can be very interesting, artistically. I'm playing around a little with my rubberstamps and clay, and my matrix boards and clay....(the rubber is poured and formed in those boards, so---one is positive and one is negative, at least in a visual way. I'm told that Clearsnap inks work well with Polymer clay, so I got some, and I also have some new embossing powders---so I'll be playing this month, with stamped beads, and shoe beads, and hand beads...

Beads are good to look at. Beads are fun. Lets talk about BEADS! Sarajane

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"Ignore thread" is your friend. You don't *have* to read every single post in the group; if you find too much negativity in a conversation, simply don't bother with it at all. That's the quickest way to eliminate both trolling and fights -- let them happen in glorious isolation.

Better yet, boost the signal-to-noise ratio by posting positive items of your own. What have you done lately with beads? Enquiring minds want to know!

Celine

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comeatspam (Sjpolyclay) :

]Perhaps you'd care to disuss something...maybe about beads???

wonderful idea. i'm looking for information about the differences in seed beads. . . .

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comeatspam (Sjpolyclay) :

]I'm playing around ]a little with my rubberstamps and clay, and my matrix boards and clay....(the ]rubber is poured and formed in those boards, so---one is positive and one is ]negative, at least in a visual way. I'm told that Clearsnap inks work well with ]Polymer clay, so I got some, and I also have some new embossing powders---so ]I'll be playing this month, with stamped beads, and shoe beads, and hand ]beads...

this so totally confuses me. rubber? and clay? stamped beads?

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@mindspring.com (Lee S. Billings) :

]What have you done lately with beads? Enquiring minds want to know!

that, she DID post - and they are GORGEOUS!!!!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

Hiya Vicki!

I make beads out of polymer clay. Designs can be stamped onto or into them, using rubber stamps and inks on the raw clays. Or, clay can be impressed using the stamps...or other textural items. Or by using the matrix trays in which rubber stamps are made, when you order them from Ready Stamp. Then you can stain them, or use Pearlex powders or other things on the raised bits...all sorts of possibles. There's more about all of this on my website. (check the Ready Stamp page for more info on them, check the bead pages for stamped and impressed beads. Mostly, till lately, I ordered the stamp and matrix boards, but ignored the stamps themselves in favor of the boards. Now I'm playing with the stamps too! There's LOTS more info in my first book, "Create A Polymer Clay Impression"

Sarajane

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move over, I need room on your soap box... :) It still is a very pleasant place to be. If a particular thread or post is not pleasing to you - don't read it. Plain and simple. If you don't like liver and onions, do you order that at a restaurant? The simple fact that this interface is void of facial expressions, body language, voice tone etc. make it a prime breeding ground for folks to; 1-get their feelings hurt, 2-be offended, 3-take something out of context and the list goes on and on...

ok, you can have your box back :)

Kirsti

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comeatspam (Sjpolyclay) :

]Now I'm playing with ]the stamps too!

AH - okay - thank you! that makes much more sense now!

]There's LOTS more info in my first book, "Create A Polymer Clay ]Impression"

**GRIN** in rec.arts.mystery, that's what we call "blatant self-promotion", which is perfectly acceptable, and in your case was very well done!

some day, maybe i'll be able to afford all the books i want/need/want!

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

Cant help with the seed beads, but Kathy N-V has a lovely pictoral up on her pictures page showing some dramatic differences in three types. Good job.. tis better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Diana

Diana gets up on the vacant soap box and sings a medly from Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore...disregarding the fact she knows only a few words and less of the tunes. She steps down again. Me

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"Kirsti" wrote ...

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Diana Curtis" :

]Cant help with the seed beads, but Kathy N-V has a lovely pictoral up on her ]pictures page showing some dramatic differences in three types. ]Good job.. tis better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

yes, i've got those. thanks. what i'm trying to figure out is differences in quality, size, colors, etc.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

's not what you take, when you leave this world behind you;it's what you leave behind you when you go. -- Randy Travis

On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:17:12 -0400, vj wrote (in message ):

The front couple of pages of "Those Bad, Bad, Beads" by Victoria Blakelock (sp) has the best descriptions of all the differences in seed beads that you could imagine. It's pretty entertaining as well, as her personality comes right out in her writing.

Kathy N-V

"That there a WAY more to life than beads and this news group. (Oh man did I say that!)"

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh I'm gonnna TELLLL!!!!!

sorry, I'm entirely too chipper. My beads are sucking on ebay, I haven't made enough jewelry for my show tomorrow. I'm living on puree food, I need to dye my hair, hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm that's about it for now,

but hey - I'm actually still chipper :) Don't worry Nicole, I'll be there soon enough and make you laugh ;)

Lynda Belieive in your heart that something wonderful is about to happen

ah yes...around here we call it "shameless pitchmen", which is non-gender specific, really! Sarajane

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differences in quality, size, colors, etc.<

By far, the best quality seed beads are made by the Japanese company Miyuki (the same company that makes Delicas). They are extremely uniform and require next to no culling. They cost more, and are definitely worth it. When I want to use seed beads with a bit more "character," I switch to Czech seed beads.

Carol in SLC

some are better than others, some are bigger, and lots of colors :)

Hee hee