| Original Message: Other purchases at the Rocky Mountain Bead Bazaar |
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I'm not into seed beads. Never was. Oh, I bought my share of tiny white hearts with intentions of making a cool necklace but soon found out I lacked the patience and the talent for jewelry making. So why was I drawn to make this purchase? They were cheap. There were other beads I wanted but the prices are prohibitive. I was drawn to the light blue beads first, which were intermingled with opaque blue strands and others. Haje showed me the shank of clear beads which I hadn't noticed and I was immediately enamored. Images of Native American beadwork immediately came to mind. Haje talked about his brisk seed bead sales in the Northwest. I got out my lupe to look at the clear ones and Haje broke into a smile and said "look at them in the light, they look like gooseberries!" They had striations left from the manufacturing process. Now these beads lay on my table at home. I keep going to them and picking them up, tangling them, then untangling them and wrapping them around my hand. They are hypnotizing me! All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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