Ain't it pretty? Now it's starting to look like an octopus. I gotta say, this is taking me way too long to finish considering its size.
Today I realized I needed beads. Which is a dangerous thing since I have a pretty extensive collection going already. But I picked up these fleshy-orange toned translucent beads from the bead fair that comes around in spring and fall, and I've got a very small amount of them. That makes me nervous cause if I'm working on a piece that's three feet wide, I'm screwed. So I went out to a fairly local place called the Birds and the Beads. I love that place. They have a gorgeous bead selection and a very nice collection of sead beads to pick from. The staff was super helpful, they were trying really hard to help me find a close match to those fleshy orange beads. We had some success but I'll never find an exact match. Oh well. But at least I have a great resource close by for smaller amounts of hard to find colors. I think a trip to NYC is in order!
Later,
Amy.
