Islandgirl's Insights

This all started with  a free pattern from Bead & Button ...  I thought that the Peyote rivets were really neat so tracked down the 2 ...

I didn't know Judy Glende, but  she was a jewellery designer & fellow blogger who was  diagnosed with brain and lung cancer in Dece...

Finally finished my beaded rubber duckie... I won the pattern last winter... , So I bought the beads, then I started it using the pattern I ...

When I first saw the topic for this month I thought to myself well I don't do that...  Sure I buy lots of other peoples beads but I don...

I bought myself this on St Paddy's day... I thought a green Orchid was a most appropriate gift... And since it's still thriving aft...

This was the gold that I found at the end of my rainbow last week!  I just love those little gold plated seed beads... Guess I should have p...

This is more or less what my 'Bead Tray'  looked like last night when I finished the bracelet!  This was a 3 day project and inspit...

Attempting to knit a scarf using seed beads... I get to knit 2 or 3  rows then I get to move beads... I started with 220 inches of beads and...

MY finished tassel.... Here's a link to all the finished tassels so far, deadline is feb 11!

New hopefully weekly post... What's on my Bead Table first thing on Monday morning..... The idea for this post was actually Bead Table...

I spent 8 or 9 hours this week in the evenings while I was watching TV making this! The pattern was a free download from Bead&Button. ...

I haven't done a book report since I was in High School.... and I won't tell you how long ago that was, but if my graduating class ...

Remember the little triangular seed bead beads... Well I made them a big brother... a dodecahedron bead... it took me 4 days... Will I ever ...

I'm a book junkie! One of my more recent acquisitions is the book The Art of Beaded Beads edited by Jean Campbell... I've actual...

This might be more appropriately called Where's the MUSE? The early bird deadline for entry for the 4th Use the Muse contest is in one...

This piece is called Red Hot... if you really think you can't live without it I listed it on ETSY!

This is what I've spent the last three days doing.. I made the focal bead etc.. before I left for NYC and bought the seed beads while I ...