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Hi there everyone,
My real name is De'Andrea and I started working with beads when I was 19, a long long time ago. I didn't stay with it picking up beading again in the 1990s (told you it was a very long time ago). Made quite a few beaded necklaces and earrings back in the '90s that I sold to local folks and for my family and friends. Back then I didn't work in peyote, brick stitch or straight stitch, off or on loom. When I was 19 I wanted to make my sister beaded hatband in a southwest design for her birthday which was 2 weeks after mine. She had bought a beading book on Native American designs and techniques for my birthday present. I only had money to buy the beads, used my Mom's sewing thread and worked with them til I figured out my way of off loom straight stitch where I sewed down 2 beads at a time instead of 1 at a time like traditional straight stitch.
I didn't stick with beading in the '90s either mainly due to work and life happening. Now after a 25+ yr hiatus I am back to my first love of beading. I still work full time for a few more yrs, except now I have a 4 on & 4 off work schedule which allows me more time to bead. A friend of mine got me back into beading again when he found out I used to bead. He commissioned me to create a beaded vulture for him. Ok, I know vultures are not on very many folks list as an ideal subject to have hanging on their walls. My friend Jim loves vultures for the contribution they do for the world with helping clean it up.
Jim lives in New Mexico and hand makes & sells small wooden tapestry looms and tools. He collects vulture memorabilia and wanted something special to add to it in beads. I worked up the vulture in peyote with the edges worked in brick stitch to make the curves and beak work out. It is a shaped peyote piece 9"X6". Now I am working on the background that is being made on my large Mirrix tapestry loom. It will be 20" wide by at least 17" high. Once it is finished I will applique the peyote vulture to the bottom right corner of it. Jim merely wanted a 5"X5" vulture head beaded piece. Me, I didn't think that would do the vulture justice and decided to create this "monster" of a tapestry for him. I have been working on the project since last fall and hopefully will be done with it this summer.
My non beading life consists of my hubby of 39 yrs, 1 son & daughter-n-law who live in Alaska, my 5 Grandkitties, Grandhamster and Grandchinchilla. I have dogs & parrots kids now.
Thank you, Malanie. I appreciate that very much.
Hi wizdmzchld,
The latin word for left-handled is "siniestra", if you translate the word to the english, yes, it means sinister.
Diestra (right side), Siniestra (left side).
Siniestra was considered the evil side, that's why until some years ago the left handed children were forced to use and write with the right hand, specially in catholic schools. And more years ago a left handed person was considered possesed by the demon.
This days we are considered regular people some times and some other kinda handicap person.
For some activities a left handed item will be helpful, but we are used to live in a right word and ussually we find our way.
Learn how to knit from a right handed teacher is not so hard, just change the front side for behind side and viceversa. But learn how to crochet is a different thing and much, much more easy fron a left handed techer.
loom bands have been around since 2013 lol i only discovered them last year in july my twin brother shay bought me my first ever kit and i said to him what the hell is this and what am i meant to do with it,shay's reply was they are loom bands sis you can make bracelets,watches,rings,earrings ect with them i tossed them in a closet and left them there until november last year when i came out of hospital after having surgery to remove half of my lungs after they'd collapsed due to a massive infection and i was laid on the couch one cold wet november afternoon so i asked nicky to get them out and i'd give them a try and i've been hooked ever since oh what a very bad pun that is lol
Melanie,
Most breeders will say that they would like to follow the pups growth and so on.. By many of them will never follow up on it.. :/
There are even more breeders that see the puppies as a way to make money.. :/
That's why I always say they if you want to buy a dog, you will have to be extra carefull with the breeder..
The ones that does it for the money usually don't breed very good dogs..
I am lucky that my friend is one of the "good guys".. She really cares for her dogs, as you could also see in the pictures..
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