Wonderful weekend bead retreat

I am just back from a wonderful weekend retreat at The Barn Bed & Breakfast at Valley Falls, Kansas. The retreat was organized by The Bead Society of Greater Kansas City, with a fantastic national level instructor, Jean Campbell. Jean taught three of her designs chosen by our group, with two color way options in each pattern. We all loved the eye candy! I think many of us purchased other kits too. Now I have four more unfinished projects to occupy my time. Check out Jean's blog: http://jeancampbellink.com/blog.html

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I worked on this off and on for several years. I left the piece in Paola at the D'Marie Gallery last weekend.

This is my latest wild tangent. One of the ladies in The Bead Society of Kansas City gave the members sample chips from a store that was closing. Artbeads.com gave the society packets of beads for the members to review. I thought, now what can I do with seven pearls? A bracelet? Both the chip and the pearls were right there on my beading table, and the pearls just fit like they belonged. So off I went. I backed the chip with a nice piece of grey leather to match and make the piece more comfortable to wear. The necklace is heading down to Paola, Kansas to the D'Marie Gallery, where someone might decide it is just the unusual piece they were looking for.[Photo]