I have been thinking about your post for several days. About the time you were making glass beads, I was making beaded jewelry and purses for family and friends and selling some. I think back about what appealed to me about the craft - that I could take a messy bowl of beads and make something beautiful from it. I moved a few months ago and brought along seven very large containers of beads that I had moved just six years before. I haven’t beaded it in about a dozen years. I offered them to a couple jewelry makers who hold jewelry sales to benefit pet rescues, but had no takers. I’ll return to that effort soon as with an aging back and older eyes, I don’t fancy wanting ever again to clean up the inevitable spill of thousands of beads that sometimes occurred. I too am writing now and still waiting for the moment when I can feel again that I took something messy and made something beautiful of it. Thank you for helping me to understand what I am looking for in writing.
Thank you for telling me. I really am trying to bring just a little light into the world, into our thoughts and feelings. I am so happy when even 1 person notices and thinks. I will tell you that I repaired a piece I made years ago for myself and simply getting the two tools, jewelry pliers, out made me genuinely happy. That happens! Again, thank you, I’m grateful. You should write a bit on Substack every day. You never know when it will touch someone. Also if you don’t have photos they give you an option to generate an AI image… I have done that a few times. You just must always say it under the photo, at least I feel that way. The attic is so and the dragonflies, a few other. 😊
Ann, your beads and your words are beautiful. The colors and designs you created are fabulous - I never thought about how beads are created and the work it takes to make each one.
And letting go of things you loved because it’s the right time of season of your life to do so is HARD! Heartbreaking, with some; I’ve been there. Yet it truly does open a space for something even better in your life. 💜
Oh, Ann… the beads are gorgeous. Your description here of revisiting your artistic processes in your dreams is such a beautiful expression - made me mindful of how all that we have been, have done, have loved lives on in each of us even as time moves forward and circumstances change. I love that you are open to finding new ways to create, while honoring the beauty you brought forward in different days, different circumstances. Life is so much letting go and leaning in to new ways of being. Thank you for this. 💙
Beautiful art, Ann. You are so talented! As Claudia said, it is deeply embedded in who you are as evidenced in your dreams. It is hard to let things we love go, and you are right, even harder to let go of people we love. Thanks for writing and for the pictures.
Great art. Great job.
I have been thinking about your post for several days. About the time you were making glass beads, I was making beaded jewelry and purses for family and friends and selling some. I think back about what appealed to me about the craft - that I could take a messy bowl of beads and make something beautiful from it. I moved a few months ago and brought along seven very large containers of beads that I had moved just six years before. I haven’t beaded it in about a dozen years. I offered them to a couple jewelry makers who hold jewelry sales to benefit pet rescues, but had no takers. I’ll return to that effort soon as with an aging back and older eyes, I don’t fancy wanting ever again to clean up the inevitable spill of thousands of beads that sometimes occurred. I too am writing now and still waiting for the moment when I can feel again that I took something messy and made something beautiful of it. Thank you for helping me to understand what I am looking for in writing.
Thank you for telling me. I really am trying to bring just a little light into the world, into our thoughts and feelings. I am so happy when even 1 person notices and thinks. I will tell you that I repaired a piece I made years ago for myself and simply getting the two tools, jewelry pliers, out made me genuinely happy. That happens! Again, thank you, I’m grateful. You should write a bit on Substack every day. You never know when it will touch someone. Also if you don’t have photos they give you an option to generate an AI image… I have done that a few times. You just must always say it under the photo, at least I feel that way. The attic is so and the dragonflies, a few other. 😊
Ann, your beads and your words are beautiful. The colors and designs you created are fabulous - I never thought about how beads are created and the work it takes to make each one.
And letting go of things you loved because it’s the right time of season of your life to do so is HARD! Heartbreaking, with some; I’ve been there. Yet it truly does open a space for something even better in your life. 💜
Catching up with Substack! Thanks Cheryl! Talk later…
Oh, Ann… the beads are gorgeous. Your description here of revisiting your artistic processes in your dreams is such a beautiful expression - made me mindful of how all that we have been, have done, have loved lives on in each of us even as time moves forward and circumstances change. I love that you are open to finding new ways to create, while honoring the beauty you brought forward in different days, different circumstances. Life is so much letting go and leaning in to new ways of being. Thank you for this. 💙
Thank you Wendy. 🌟💙
Lovely Ann, but I get it.
I know you do. 💙💙💙
Beautiful art, Ann. You are so talented! As Claudia said, it is deeply embedded in who you are as evidenced in your dreams. It is hard to let things we love go, and you are right, even harder to let go of people we love. Thanks for writing and for the pictures.
Thank you Wendy… thank you for reading. 💙
Wow. It became part of you...in your dreams. Very pretty creations, Ann.
Thank you Claudia. I appreciate you. 💙
beautiful work ann