Semi-OT: Valerie and Linda's crafts show

That weekend was EXHAUSTING!!! I slept for 10 hours once I got home! LOL!

But it was quite a learning experience for me. I know a lot more about these things now than I did. I also learned that it isn't as scary as I thought it would be. It's a hassle to set everything up and tear it down again, but the rest is pretty fun. I kind of can't wait to try this on my own.

I also taught Linda a new variation on square stitch to turns into this:

But this show was very encouraging for me. It was completely different than what I thought it would be, and not as hard as I expected. Of course I came prepared for everything, so I had everything I would need if I ran into a problem (I even brought my own toilet paper!) LOL!

The woman doing the custom wire work probably did a killing, but I would never want to do custom work while you wait. No way! She sure worked hard for the $ she made. After we were packed up and leaving, she was still working and didn't have anything put away. Even though she made a ton of $, I do NOT envy her! Yikes!

But I was also encouraged my my pain factor. I expected my body to be in total metldown the entire time I was there, and it was pretty tolerable. I'm very happy about that. I'm off my meds too (they make me feel *way* too whacked out), and am only taking vitamins. After Linda's report on how flaxseed oil is making her feel, I do believe I'll be adding that and MSM to my daily ritual. I couldn't take it before while I was on meds, because you shouldn't mix some of this stuff, but now that I'm off I can. :-)

I hope everyone had fun at BABE! I want a report ladies! I've marked everything read, but I searched for a report before that. Nothing yet!

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Linda? Can we see? *grin*

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

]The woman doing the custom wire work probably did a killing

what kind was she doing????

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

Sure. I don't have the time at the moment to go into it, but if you have the Beaded Beads book by Beadwork (boy that's a mouthful!), it's a variation on the tubular square stitch bead in there. When I have more time, I'll post a written tute.

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LOL! Maybe I will... ;-)

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Nothing that hard. She was wrapping sharks teeth and stones to hang from leather cord or something with crow beads on the sides. But people got to custom pick their colors and focals, so it was on the spot custom jewelry.

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And Valerie still hasn't mentioned that she had her very first CocoaBat last weekend and got to take two packages of them home for her and her mom.

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And she didn't want them so I got to eat them ALLLLLLL!!!!! Yum! I now need CocoaBats to survive...

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Nope. I've never seen her around my neck of the woods (I was in a different county doing the show with Linda), so I really don't know. I never asked.

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