My Roses

Climbing up the lattice Mark did for me for Christmas.

See how pretty

And they smell wonderful.

OH gosh how I am going to hate summer. I like Spring. Everything is new and beautiful. Except the pollen , so I guess there is something with every season. I really like the Winter, I don't mind the cold but when people have problems with the ice storms, I feel for them.
Don't have a lot to talk about, seems like when I put something up on the net, I offend some people.
I have been working on my birthday dolls, they are mermaids and I have a little scene going , I will be putting up pics in June, and the explanation of why I used certain colors and things incorporated in them.
It's to hot here to do anything, already in the 90's and my air conditioner is not working. Boy what am I going to do in the Summer?

Second puzzle piece

Hello everyone,

Well after the upset with the heart thing, I decided to finish my second puzzle piece for the BAD puzzle challenge. Her name is Donoma and it is an Omaha name meaning "sight of the sun".

It really was a challenge to stick with one color. I like a lot of color , but not working with one only. I really think she looks like she is sitting crossed legged. I am more fond of her than I am of Jiggy.

I have been talking to Ralonda on the phone and she is such a sweety, I was so happy to hear from her. The day we talked , when I returned from the Dr. there was a package from her. A RAOK, two little mermaid dolls to bead for my birthday doll.

On BAD which stands for Beaded Art Dolls (it's a Yahoo group) we are encouraged to make a doll for our birthday that usually tells a little about what is going on in you life that year.

I have been wanting to do a mermaid doll, so I thought ...humm I am a Gemini and they are twins so I need to do 2 , the pearl is my birthstone so it works out great.

I am going to get started on them soon , it is going to be more like a scene than just a birthday doll.

Puzzle Piece Doll

I finished my puzzle piece doll for the challenge on Beaded Art Dolls group. I think he is the funniest looking piece ever! I call him 'Orange U. Jiggy with Rock and Roll shoes', I call him this because I did his shoes in rock chips and put larger beads on the toe and heel of his shoes like roller skates.

I put on a pretty little lace flowerette and remembered that it was supposed to be 100% beaded so I busted out the size 15's and filled it in.

This challenge was a challenge because I don't care for orange beads to much, I still don't care for them , but understand they do have a place in the bead world, I will use them on my pieces from now on.

Because I finished early , I am going to do another one but this time I will do a yellow one. Another color I don't use often, especially the main color. I will be doing a different piece, not mirroring this piece on the back as some are doing. I plan on displaying them on a shelf and if I do the other side I can't display them like I want .

So I will putting the yellow one up when I finish it, who knows these pieces may end up with siblings of different colors...hummmm or maybe not!

Weakly

Well , when I started this blog , I said it would be weekly but probably end up weakly and it has .
The BAD group has decided to do a puzzle piece doll, but flat not full and fluffy like me. I am really excited to start this one , we were assigned a color, I just happened to pick #3 one of my lucky numbers, but it turned out to be a color i don't really care for, orange! The group did an orange challange before I joined, so I have some inspiration.
We rented a car this weekend so we could get out and grocery shop and do other things. My thing is to go to thrift stores and pick up on some cheap materal, also to go site seeing and window shopping.
Oh course after having such lovely weather while shut up with no transportation, when we finally get to go somewhere, Mr. Winter has shown his pretty/ugly side , I love snow and don't care if it ices when I am home bound, but when I want to go out I want pretty weather like we were having, hey at least the sun is shinning and I am waiting for the lazy bugs to get up so we can head out.
We went out yesterday and the thrift stores were closed , I guess they had a snow day off, but the roads were clear. So I am going to try again today. I am also going to Little Rock, but before going there I am going to stop at the bead store in the little town next to me . I thought the ladies that opened the bead store in my town closed , well, they just moved to a better location. On the main street instead of behind the post office.
OK I'm off of here to take off shopping, I will post a pick of my puzzle piece later, I have to cut it out and I want to dye it instead of it being stark white.
Bye for now the lazy bugs are stirring.

My cane

Back when my youngest son Mark was 10 yrs old(now 25) He went out in the woods and cut me a cane because I was hurting in my back and I would walk with a mop around the house. It was really pretty with a twisted handle and all, he carved MUM in it and we stained and varnished it.

Later on in years he said "Mom you bead everything" . I was just getting into free form beading so I decided to bead some on the cane, this is the results. He loves it, I love it and everyone that has seen it loves it. I was offered $200.00 for it one time, but no amount of money could buy this act of love.

I decided to cover it with things you find in the woods, and incorporate the things he found or gave me too, like the pewter owl, and the stone he dove down and brought up in the spring at the White River in Cotter Arkansas.

The cane was beaded back in 2000 or 2001 and even though he has broke my heart and spirits many times, it stands in the corner of my bedroom to remind me , "he is still my baby boy".

Mini pin challange

My beaded art doll group is having a mini pin challenge, so I decided to join in . Here are my pins.

I haven't been doing well lately, been down with my back and fibro is really acting up. Of course the weather has a lot to do with it , as well as personal problems building up. Speaking of weather , we don't know weather to wear shorts or jackets, it will be cold one day, then raining, then hot, then back to cold, that is what brought on the tornados 2 weeks ago. A LOT of damage all around.

Second doll

The ladies on Beaded Art Dolls were having a Valentine doll swap. I don't like to join swaps because it causes me to worry and panic about the time line. So I just beaded a doll for myself, and got her done in plenty of time if I would have joined the swap. This is a picture of her, her name is Lovenya.

Started making dolls

Well, I went and jumped in . I have for years wanted to make beaded art dolls, but never really got into it.

I was invited to join a doll group from a wonderful lady Lynn in Oz.She had seen my Pisca album and liked my work so she sent me an invite. Let me tell you it was the best thing I did. I finally got up the courage to start beading dolls and now I can't quit, not that I want to .lol

The first doll I started was a Mardi Gras doll, as I am originally from Louisiana and miss the festive season of Mardi Gras, up here in Arkansas they don't celebrate anything but Hogs and Chuck wagon races. Louisiana celebrates everything from bugs, to watermelon, anything to have a party.

I hope to post something weekly but it will probably end up weakly.

The right one

Maybe God wanted us to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift.