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Thursday, May 25, 2006

...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.

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Jewels from our garden



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

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

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.

Monday, May 08, 2006

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.