New Peyote Beading Chart added: Singing the Blues Cat

I've just added an adorable even-count peyote beading chart to:
http://stores.lulu.com/busycrowstudio

e-Patterns !

What are e-Patterns? 'Electronic Patterns' that can be emailed quickly and easily. The beauty of this is that you don't have to pay for shipping, you can get a pattern without having to buy a whole book or magazine, and you can receive them quickly. I have e-Patterns on eBay, Etsy, and other sites; an example is the Flip-Flopping Hearts bead bracelet shown above. This pattern comes with a bead graph, word chart, and bead counts to let you easily customize the creation for your own (maybe making each heart a different color, etc.). This and other e-Patterns can always be found at: http://groups.msn.com/busycrowstudio

Beaded Christmas Ornaments

Usually I don't think about projects that are only 'good' for part of the year (such as Christmas ornaments) -- after all, I figure if you put that much work into a project, you want to sanely display it all year long. But since I will be holding a Beaded Ornament class soon, I have become quite hooked on creating these beaded beauties, and trying to figure out new ways with different bead stitches to get them done. This photo shows just a basic "banner" style, but I've got some modern 'brick stitch', traditional netted, and square stitched types almost finished also...