Ok. So I started beading. I have been wanting to learn for a long time and I have many many different size seed beads with no idea what to do with them. I fired up youtube and started watching video after video and found a couple of channels that I really like and find useful. My first bead weaving project was tubular peyote. I did a cute bracelet with what ever thread I had and I found it very easy. I do not remember if it was even or odd peyote that was a couple of months ago and lately I have been doing flat even peyote. I found out my beads were very uneven and odd size. So I found a local bead store and bought some beads to play with. I then found
artbeads.com.
I made a rather small order when there was a sale about four weeks ago and for just under $60 I got 13 tubes of TOHO beads of which one is size 8 with a free gift tube of size 8, and one size 15 and the rest are size 11. I LOVE TOHO. For a beginner beader these work up fast and nicely. My second order was two weeks ago and it was again on sale but a lot more of a sale so just over $62 got me 19 tubes of size 11 TOHO of their designer series. I think I have about all of the TOHO color choices at this moment.
I have started to create jewelry sets with them.
I had some silver button findings from who knows where so I am going to use them up then find some pretty buttons for others.
Earrings and necklace will be from flat peyote rolled and zipped up into a small tube pieces paired with some roundel 6mm Swarvoski crystals. This grey flannel mix is really laid back I like the colors though on blue beading mat the lightest color bead tends to hide really really well.
Hopefully with the holidays coming up I will be placing these sets into my etsy shop.
