Looking at your work and your profile reminds me of some things in my past.
Like living in Northern Canada, my introduction to serious beading here in
Alaska, use of animal material, venison, rocks, dinosaurs.
A friend just left to go back to the village where she's teaching, now that
she had to get a real job after a serious injury. Before that she was a
tramp (RR), except where she worked at dinosaur digs up North in the summer.
Last week-end I was hanging out with a bunch of people who collect rocks for
jewelry and for spiritual reasons. Saw some really cool crystals from the
Brooks Range.
Venison here means moose. But now is salmon harvesting time. We'll go dip
net our limit of reds and a King from the Copper River sometime in the next
week or so. Wish we could get more than 40, especially so we could share.
For a couple years I had access to a fish wheel, and in one day we got about
80 salmon. Boy that was a job processing them -- especially since we had
limited electricity and had to can them. I no longer have all than salmon,
but I now have a much better man. A great trade!!
I had done beading as a kid, like most people. And had carved and painted
some beads. But my introduction to serious beading and to bead weaving was
here in Alaska, almost 20 years ago. Up here, jail and treatment are
mandatory for any DUI. I learned peyote stitch from an Athabascan man I was
there with.
Seeing your cigarette and tooth reminds me that I still have some feathers
and crystals that I want to embellish. I like the unsmokeable cigarette!
So what is Bingorage. Is it what you get in small towns where there's
nothing to do on Saturday nights but play bingo? Instead of having road
rage, you have bingo rage?
Tina
"brokenvultureart" wrote in message
oups.com...
Offering a couple links to my most recent bead postings (copy and paste
url).:
The beaded Water Buffalo tooth
http://bingorage.blogspot.com/2006/0...alo-tooth.html
The beaded cigarette
http://bingorage.blogspot.com/2006/0...cigarette.html
Thanks.
:Eric at Bingorage