Blinders: Part 4

Around the previously completed sun/sunflower, I started embroydering some light greenish-blueish iridescent seed beads. Since the sun is growing into a flower, I decided to add a Czheck glass leaf bead. Alas, I have put the leaf stitched side down, with the loose part up, it will flop when I am wearing the blinders! What to do?! I'll just do some funky embroydering to hold the leaf in place, and look cool in the process.

Blinders: Part 3

So now we're up to the part where I'm sewing the already emroidered parts onto the denim that will be the front of the blinders. First the sun/sunflower part.

Blinders: Part 2

So, these are supposed to be abstract and all, but can you tell what they are abstract of?? Just curious.

Finishing Things: Blinders

Another thing in the started-a-long-time-ago catagory is my bead embrodery eye blinders. When I was in college, I worked at the local donut shop (yes "time to make the donuts") where we worked pretty much in the middle of the night, so I needed to sleep some days. I used several things throughout that time to keep the light from waking me up, including scarves, towels, and a cheap pair of eye blinders that I had gotten free somewhere. These cheap eye blinders were the inspiration to make a cool pair of beaded blinders, though I don't think I actually started them until a few years later. I think I started them after or around the same time as this because the pattern on the pin suggested beading onto pelon and then sewing the pelon onto ultra suede, which worked fine for the pin, but got me off track on these blinders, as I wasn't sure what to do next after I had part sewn on to the ultra suede, I didn't want the string to be on my eyes, did I?
So in the finishing process, I realized that I needed to change dircection. The ultrasuede would be better next to the skin, and I'd find some other material to attach the embroidery to. That would also allow me to add more beads. Can never have too many beads, right? And I could add a layer of padding between the two layers for more comfort. Now this is becomming a great idea.

Finishing Things

I've been on a kick to finish old projects, and some have been so old they lost their focus, ie, I didn't know what they started out meaning to be. I recently looked closer at what I thought was a tangled 3-D beading project gone awry, to discover this. And it wasn't a tangled mess at all! I like these colors, so what should I do with it? Can't really 'finish' it, since I don't know what it was supposed to be. ;p
Since I found it in with some of my beading supplies I had at work, and since I had just listened to a podcast all about crafting your workspace, the perfect idea hit me: It's a decoration for my work pen!
I love the different beaded pens people make, but at work, one of my little ocd quirks fun games I play with myself is using a different colored pen each day, and they are usually not the kind that work well with beads covering them. So, this little decoration is great, it slips onto the clip of the pen-of-the-day, and is my fun reminder all day long that I only work to buy more beads!
I'm thinking of making some similiar to this, maybe one with star beads at the end for my work friend who loves stars!



P.S. This photo must have been taken on a Thursday. Thursday is Purple day.

Current Project at Work: Fan Pull

This project is one that came out of the morgue this year, as did "Growing Things", and another one I'm working on, which I haven't shared photos of yet. I decided earlier this year to go through and finish things. To be honest, I wasn't sure what this one had started out being. maybe I never had a clear idea what it was, but I pulled it out of hiding, since I wanted something for a while besides gourd (peyote) stitch, I thought I'd do a little bead embroidery. So when I took it to work here, I still wasn't sure what it would be. Sometimes you have to see it as it grows, to figure out what it is. By the time it got this far, I had decided it was either a fan pull or a rear-view mirror decoration, and it would definately have fringe. My friend, Reggie, said she loved these colors, and yes, she has a ceiling fan, so it is now a fan pull for Reggie.
I am having trouble deciding how to attach the beaded chain on to the finished body.