glass beads

"The LazyBum" wrote in news:DxRkk.2477$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe06.iad:

I'd guess Buy (based upon the few peopel I've known who've done either), esp. depending upon what kind of beading you're talking about (i.e., stringing beads, or actually covering objects by "weaving" bead together). Beading, and making beads, are different skill-sets, require different set- ups/equipment, and have a different focus.

Oh lord, don't get me lying... This is actually my girlfriends project, what I am doing asking stuff trying to figure out what she gets outta this. However, I do admit, I do use plastic beads on my shark leaders :)

Disclaimer: Coming from some who doesn't make beads:

From what I've seen, it seems like those that bead buy them from those that make beads. But I would think that there would be a certain attraction to those that made designs from their own custom beads. And seeing how Hobby Lobby sells all that you need to make glass beads, it looks like creativity and imagination would be your only limitations.

Bill, thank you for your input! I think you're right. My girlfriend does do the hobby lobby thing sometimes, but just a personal issue with the owners of that store, I just flat refuse to do business with them. I much prefer Michaels. But then, I have NO idea what all this craft stuff is, I am just seekin info for my girlfriend.

I only know the simple things in life.. Cat Fishing, Shark Fishing, Computers and Linux.

:) I guess you could say "I'm just along for the ride".

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Andrew

"The LazyBum" wrote in news:p4blk.8236$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe03.iad:

IF your GF is making glass beads using rods and a bunsen-burner, it's just fun to use what is normally a destructive thing (fire/flame) in a way to transform one thing, to create a new thing.

Most humans get enjoyment from shaping their environment, and/or elements thereof, to fit their own preferences. Some garden, some build things, and so on. Those things become Art when they're done in a way that communicates ideas/feelings to otehr people, gets them thnking, "moves" them as is said.

So, the point isn't so much what, specifically, your GF gets out of beadwork, but rather, the fact that she is being creative, and doing something that gives her (and if applicable, her clients) joy through the act of creating something.

COnsider some of the elaborate fishing-flys that people make. I mean, erally, do they *need* to do all of that work? I know that it's "justified" by talking baout the vagaries of fish 'psychology' so to speak, but it's also, let's face it, the creation of something that has it's own aesthetic, its own beauty if you will. Practical things by no means "need" to be ugly, after all. ((Of course, the actual fishing is also a reward, practicing as it does a primally-satisfying sense of being able to pit oneself against nature and succeed in providing for oneself and one's family :) ))

HTH