A pic of some of the additions to my stash!
I put a picture similar to this over on the Demo’s and New Bead Info page - click here if you want to learn more about size and shape for these beads, etc…
It was an adventure of a day (that included a broken windshield on the drive up!), & I had a GREAT time at this event! I only had one day to enjoy it unfortunately, I could have certainly spent the whole weekend playing here! I know I didn't come anywhere close to seeing everything I wanted to see - but the stuff I saw, I loved!
I took a great make & take class over at the Beadalon area with Missy and learned to use Ice Resin to make a pendant :) there were a few of these type of classes offered throughout the day, along with the regular classes in the next section of the building - so fun!
There were treasure troves of new and familiar bead shapes. I concentrated mostly on getting shapes that I didn’t already have - and getting coordinating colors in some shapes that I already DID have. There’s others not pictured here that I got too - specifically, RounDuos and RounTrios. these are 5 and 6mm beads that have 2 and 3 holes in them respectively. They will be going on the Bead Info page, when I have some pictures of just those beads. However, you can see the RounDuo in action in my latest published pattern, Caliente’ (Magic Medallions) - out in the October 2017 issue of Beadwork Magazine!
To celebrate all the fun and new shapes, I created a simple & easy pattern with them… and you can have it for FREE :) Happy Beadfest, folks! Click Here to get your free .PDF download of “Poinsett-Iris”, featuring Iris Duos and Minos beads! :)
Ouch….that was a piece of a car exhaust, i think. Not sure - there was a bunch of debris on i95 around the DE-MD line. It was at the crest of a hill, so folks couldn’t see all the debris until they were right on top of it and hitting it - sending it into the cars behind them. :( I drive a half-ton van, and believe me - it AIN’T easy to break a windshield on one of those! For a bad fraction of a second, I feared it would shoot right through the windshield. Talk about an adrenaline rush, sheesh! Thankfully, it only broke the windshield and didn’t breach it… and thankfully, it hit here instead of shooting through my radiator - I would have missed Beadfest completely if it had done that! This was the day it happened… Sunday, right before the big eclipse event the following Monday. We got rain that afternoon around 4pm following the eclipse - and the short horizontal crack that you see grew to about 20” long following the sun then rain that day… Many thanks to Safelite for getting me all fixed up!