...and I really do bead

After naming this blog the Bead Working Librarian, blending a pleasure and my profession, I thought it appropriate to include at least one sample.



I create for myself, for friends and family. I love the textures and colors, knowing there is a synergy at work when combining individual beads and flowing to a finished product. And feeling as if they are jewels, which my good friend Judy calls all her pieces. (Happy anniversary, Judy!)

This necklace and bracelet set were a donation to the annual Minnesota Library Association Foundation silent auction last fall and I've promised work for that and other fundraisers again this year.

Jewels from our garden

After a long winter, those first picked crops are like jewels --- in color, texture and taste.

Broken Flowers

Saturday evening's Netflix movie was a quirky little film, Broken Flowers, starring Bill Murray. In some ways it reminded me of The Razor's Edge, not the storyline, but because Bill Murray is not a ha-ha kind of funny. Rather, it is a movie that keeps you thinking about choices in our lives, the people who come and go, and the color pink.

Beads and Copper

On a sunny Saturday afternoon and after ten years in my job , I decided it was time to re-pot my office plants and add color to the work world where I spend most of my awake hours. With the philodendron rooting long and leggy, I scouted out old copper from our house re-wiring project to create a beaded-copper-mini-trellis to support the vine. Large glass beads on copper catching sunrays on Monday morning --- fresh look to a new week.