Time to unlurk

I've just gotten my very first lampwork bead in the mail, (from

Oops, make that Ginger Sanders.

Welcome Lisa! Your quilts are wonderful - I'm envious of such talent!

Hi Lisa! First you cut out McDonalds. Then it's chocolate. Ok, maybe not chocolate. But you WILL find yourself skimping in other areas to allow for bead purchases.

According to some of the research I've done, the typical bead person spends $840 a year on beads.

Welcome to the fold...

Very nice quilts but I love your amulet bags especially the one made with the kit!

Don't give up the coffee just make it at home...

/brews a fresh pot for Lisa

-- Margie

Not surprising that I'm atypical.

-- Margie

Thank you Barbara! I hope that some of what I learned about color etc. in quilting will translate over to beading.

I enjoyed looking at your work, too. I think my favorite piece of yours is the green and pink bracelet made from Venitian glass. Those are SO my colors!

ITYM "the typical bead *hobbyist*". I can drop $800 at one Intergem show -- but I'm buying raw materials for my business.

Celine

Hi Tink, Oh mah gawsh...give up chocolate??!! Never! I MUST have my daily dose of Hershey's Nuggets with toffee and almonds. I can see where I could get into a bit of trouble $$ wise, as I'm still occasionally buying fabric. But hey, what's a dollar for anyway, right? ;-)

Thank you Margie, Nope, not going to give up on coffee, that's for sure! I can time a pot to be ready by the time I get home in the morning. I recently *made* myself go check the calorie content of the McD's sandwich that I like to get. It's over 400 calories!!! I figure that I'll be doing my bead stash AND my waistline a service by giving it up!

Lisa, sipping that fine coffee from Margie....

Thank you Starlia! I appricate how everyone's making me feel at home here :-) Lisa

Hey Diana! LOL......I was already tawkin' your ear off this morning. Hope you and Meg got in a nice nap. :-)

I think this will be a fun group! I've really enjoyed the eye candy I've seen so far. Lisa

Hi Lisa,

Welcome. I love this place, and hope you will too.

I live in Fairbanks, Alaska, and I keep being surprised at how many resources there are for arts and crafts here. I guess it has to do with having to make our own entertainments in smaller communites.

Your work is lovely; you have such a great eye for color.

Tina

LOL! Yeah. That's what I thought. But it *is* just an average. Folks like RCBers skew the results, I'm sure.

That's probably why they DIDN'T ask you. HAW!

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

]That's probably why they DIDN'T ask you.

you're probably right. **grin** they didn't want to scare off all the newbies!

----------- @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

It will -- there are certain design elements that just work, regardless of the medium. Complementary colors ... well, complement each other in print, in paint, in fabric, in beads, in paper -- it's all the same. Some color combinations createa sense of peace, some create a feel elegance, come create a sense of urgency or fun, And your work with fabric with quickly translate into texture and scale, too, with beads.

You're miles ahead of lots of us!

Jewitch

Oh, BTW -- welcome!

Welcome to the monkey house ... ;-)

Deirdre

If that's the average, then there have to be a lot of nickle-and-dime dilettantes counterbalancing -this- group...

Deirdre