Posted August 9th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
T-minus 5 days. We bridesmaids are wearing black dresses, and since the colors are raspberry & lime green, we’re wearing green shoes. My shoes are actually David’s Bridal honeydew color. (David’s Bridal blows, by the way.) So what about earrings? I made ‘em! I wanted to have green earrings to match the shoes and the [...]
Tags: beading, I work for a living, jewelry, wedding
Posted July 7th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
There are a LOT of beading magazines out there. And at one point I was buying every single one. That presented a storage problem here in my bento box sized apartment, so I had to take drastic measures. Those drastic measures included buying a lime green binder and a bunch of plastic page protectors. Now [...]
Tags: beading
Posted June 13th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
Yesterday afternoon I was sitting at my desk, WM and the dogs were passed out in a pile on the sofa, and it was really, really quiet. I was torturing myself with a work-related decision and needed a distraction. So I pulled out a beading magazine and my stash’o’beads. I altered a pair of earrings [...]
Tags: beading, ollie, wireworking
Posted June 3rd, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
A while back I bought a bag of beads. I love bags of random beads. When I was a kid, I collected stickers and I’d always, always get the mystery $1.00 brown bag of stickers from Heroes’ World – the weird store at the mall that sold weird things to collectors. This bead thing? Same [...]
Tags: beading, crafts, I make jewelry, jewelry, wire-wrapping