LIFE SEEMS TO GET HARDER

Hi Everyone!

My mom use to tell me that getting older doesn't make life easier. She was so right. It seems the older DH and I get the more difficult it all is. Especially with DHs health.  SIHGGGGGG... I guess we just hold our chins up and do what we have to do. Soooooo we had a very early day getting up at the butt crack of dawn to see the doctor in Salem, OR. It is almost 3 hours to where the doctor is. Of course it was dark and overcast the whole day, which doesn't help with ANYTHING. LOL  On the way home we took a back road off I-5 and my whole spirit was calmed. No sunshine but the area was amazing. We are going to take that route from now on. Next time I will get photos of it.  So now that I am done whining I will show you a few of the pieces I have finished for my 

Art Everyday.

Thank the stars for art.  

Life may not be what you think it should be, so make it what you want it to be no matter what.

My motto for now.

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

PPF Ellimorph Faces Cabs

Hi Everyone!

I have had a great week in the art room. Lots of new things made and fun products to play with.

First I want to thank Eva and Kristen for hosting Paint Party Friday

Second a big thanks to all the artists who join in to share their art. 

 Art for this week is still on schedule  for My Art Everyday. 

I am at 145 pieces of art in 145 days. Here are a few of them.

I was happy with her hand. 

Huichol beading on leather La Loba Espiritural numeral dos.

 My good friend/sister is naming my faces on FB. This one is tequila, straight shot.

Now, do you remember a few months back when I received a product called Ellimorph? It is plastic beads that are submerged into hot water and then can be formed into shapes. I finally had time to play with it. I made hands for my creature. Then I made several molded flower cabochons. I Sooooo love this!!! I want to take a whole day just to play with Ellimorph.

 If you are interested you can check it out here. 

I made a wire armature then covered in Ellimorph.

and here is the finished creature. Made with a gourd top, home made paper mache paste, Ellimorph, leather hair, acrylic paints varnish and plastic eyes.

  Cabochons for beading and other multimedia art projects

The detail is amazing.

Wishing all of you a very happy weekend.

 

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

PLAYING WITH ELLIMORPH

Hi Everyone!

It is a gorgeous day today in Florence. Warm sunny day. Finally. I have been out most of the day just taking in the warmth. Early this AM however, I did start the making of some hands for a project I am working on. Normally I make an armature and start layering on the clay or paper mache. Today I thought I would see how the Ellimorph works. OMG!! so easy and so much fun. The best part is that you just put it on then you can sand it, cut it, and if you want put it back in hot water to reshape it. I also have a small heating tool that I can shape with as well. I love this stuff!!!!

So here is the rough, first stage of the hands. 

 These hands will be sanded, trimmed and then pasted over then added to the art project.

Heating tool to melt the Ellimorph to shape.

 Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

TIME OFF IN JUNE

 Hi Everyone.

Just a not to let you know that Beadwright will be close June 5 to June 25. I will be unavailable on all social media including emails.  If you need Nicole's BeadBacking or other supplies please order ASAP.   Also sign up for our Beadwright NewsLetter for all updates on sales, tutorials, artist features and more. Look at the side bar. Be sure to verify it with the email contact. 

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Have a happy Sunday

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY 5/19

Hi Everyone!

OMG!!!!! I am so busy with..... EVERYTHING..... that I have had little time to create. Well that isn't really true. I spent a lot of time with some beading that I accomplished even with lupus hands. You can see close ups of the beading and  read the story here if you are interested   Anyway, I know that when I am TRYING to get the art done it isn't as good. That is how I feel this week. Some good, so not, so don't judge me too harshly. I am still getting it done at 137 pieces of finished art in 137 days. 

I am linking up with the beautiful ladies Eva and Kristen who host Paint Party Friday and the equally beautiful artists who take the courage each week to show their art. It is always such a pleasure to see what all of you are coming up with. Thanks for sharing. 

Now for my week of art.

Beaded Bolo for DH.

A beaded necklace for me. The three Swarovski Crystals at the bottom 

where my Grandmother's

This is the one I am not happy with. Tried to get it done before I had to leave the house. 

These abstracts are always fun for me. I get my hands, forearm, and elbows into these.

OK  no elbows on this one. I see all kinds of fairies dancing and playing with globes. I just couldn't go any further.

 Elbows on this one.  LOL

I am posting mega early due to meetings all day and into the evening. 

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

BEADING WITH LUPUS HANDS

Hi Everyone!

If you have been with me on this blog you know that lupus took a lot away  from me. The most it took was my ability to bead. I made my living creating in beads for most of my life. It has been a difficult loss on so many levels. This last month though something in me wanted to bead, needed to bead.  I finished two pieces. It was beyond frustrating. I have no feeling in my hands and they shake. I drop things a 100 times a day. So I rubbed my fingers with bees wax so I could at least know where the beading needle is. In my day of beading I was an extremely fast beader so to have to take all this time to create just two pieces was also part of the frustration. However, I still have the magic. I would say I still have the touch but that won't work will it. 😁  I am happy to show you these two pieces.

These also make numbers 132 for the bolo and 134 for the necklace of  my Arty Everyday  I have other art to make up the numbers in between that I will show on another post.

 My piece began like this. However as I started to bead I knew the small cab was not going to work.

DH loves to wear bolos I have made them all so he asked if I could make a new one for him.

So the small cab became this.

Then is was time to finish my new necklace. 

The photos don't show it but both pieces are very shinny with dicro glass, and Swarovski crystals.

 

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

PAINT PARTY FRIDAY 5/12

Hi Everyone!

I am having a hard lupus day today. So thought I better get this posted before I have to go to bed. A huge thanks to Eva and Kristen 

for hosting Paint Party Friday.

If you create at least once a week and want a place to show your art then come join all of the fantastic artists who post their art. Just click on the link and read the instructions. This is not a place to sell or advertise to sell your art. Rather a happy community of artists who share, inspire and become friends.

My art this week brings me to 131 finished pieces of art in 131 days. 

Hope you enjoy.

Sorry about the poor photos. I need light and a new camera. LOL

I really like creating these little abstracts and people seem to like them too.

Nicole/Beadwright

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

MY ART EVERYDAY

Hi Everyone!

Wow! My life has been so busy the last few weeks that it amazes me I am keeping up, with every thing! 😁 Now the one thing I have been behind on is actually posting my Art Everyday. I have kept up on that and today I will post one of the pieces made this week and then will post all of them for Paint Party Friday.  This is 130 pieces of art finished in 130 days. I also have four other projects in the art room that all take time and I am hoping at least one of the will be finished by the weekend.

Wishing you a happy creative day.

Nicole/Beadwright 

Honor and integrity in art, in life.

Introduction Peggy Kemp

Hi Everyone

 You know that I love featuring people on my blog.  Introducing what others are creating and of course if they use Nicole's BeadBacking that just makes me happy.

Peggy Kemp is a wonderful person and an amazing artist. 

In her own words

Peggy Kemp.

 My mission is to help make the world a better place, every day, in whatever I way I can. I try to live aloha and be of loving service. In addition, I want to have FUN and encourage others to enjoy and have faith in their innate creativity and spiritual connection. I'm inspired by nature and color and shape. I'm motivated by how miserable I feel when I don't make art every day. 

My "beadsugar" gets low and I get crabby.

Peggy in Paradise: I live on the Garden Island of Kauai, in Hawaii. I live in a tiny apartment in the bottom of a large house, in a residential neighborhood mauka (toward the mountains) from Kapaa. I have lived on Kauai for almost 14 years and I still feel lucky to be here every day. I never take this beauty for granted.

 I still very much have a "day job." I am the CEO, chief cook and bottle washer, main worker, and "Princess in Charge" at Peggy in Paradise, the business I run out of my home studio. Peggy in Paradise is a full-serve business that covers everything I know how to do: bookkeeping, remote office management, search engine optimization, social media marketing and management, business consulting, personal organization, gardening, healing. 

And beading and doll-making! In my spare time, I run a little doll hospital and make doll clothes for fun.

 I have made dolls all my life. My mom taught me to embroider when I was five, and my sister and I dressed our dolls in clothes of our own design. I did cross-stitch and needlepoint for many years. I didn't start bead embroidering until I was around 40, so 20 years ago, and that was about the same time I began to focus on making healing dolls.

 Healing dolls, and other intentional dolls, are made with a prayer in every stitch, while holding an intention of healing.

 Well, Michangelo! And Rubens, Henri Rousseau, Frida Kahlo, and the mille fleur style of the Unicorn Tapestries. But in the modern day, it is without question, Robin Atkins. I met her online 7 years ago when I was searching for flower beads and ordered her book "Spirit Dolls." It is so aligned with who I am and what I do, I felt a kinship with her right away. I use her simple body pattern often. I also very much admire the three-dimensional woven beadwork of Diane Fitzgerald and the netted work of Sandra 

Peggy has a sharp imagination and creates from her heart. To see more of Peggy's art and to see the lovely place she lives please click on these links
http://peggyinparadise.blogspot.com/
Peggy Kemp FB

Nicole/Beadwright

Honor and integrity in art, in life.