"The LazyBum" wrote in
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Subject: glass beads
From: "The LazyBum"
Newsgroups: rec.crafts.glass

Oh lord, don't get me lying... This is actually my girlfriends
project,
what I am doing asking stuff trying to figure out what she gets outta
this. However, I do admit, I do use plastic beads on my shark leaders
--
http://www.funcraftics.com

Eh, whatever - different people like doing different things. IMO, the fon
is from taking raw amterials, and seeing them take shape, esp. when the
shape actually fits what you've envisioned g!

IF your GF is making glass beads using rods and a bunsen-burner, it's just
fun to use what is normally a destructive thing (fire/flame) in a way to
transform one thing, to create a new thing.

Most humans get enjoyment from shaping their environment, and/or elements
thereof, to fit their own preferences. Some garden, some build things, and
so on. Those things become Art when they're done in a way that
communicates ideas/feelings to otehr people, gets them thnking, "moves"
them as is said.

So, the point isn't so much what, specifically, your GF gets out of
beadwork, but rather, the fact that she is being creative, and doing
something that gives her (and if applicable, her clients) joy through the
act of creating something.

COnsider some of the elaborate fishing-flys that people make. I mean,
erally, do they *need* to do all of that work? I know that it's
"justified" by talking baout the vagaries of fish 'psychology' so to speak,
but it's also, let's face it, the creation of something that has it's own
aesthetic, its own beauty if you will. Practical things by no means
"need" to be ugly, after all. ((Of course, the actual fishing is also a
reward, practicing as it does a primally-satisfying sense of being able to
pit oneself against nature and succeed in providing for oneself and one's
family ))

HTH




"Kris Krieger" wrote in message
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"The LazyBum" wrote in
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Do most people that do beading make their own glass beads, or do
they just buy them?



I'd guess Buy (based upon the few peopel I've known who've done
either), esp. depending upon what kind of beading you're talking
about (i.e., stringing beads, or actually covering objects by
"weaving" bead together). Beading, and making beads, are different
skill-sets, require different set-
ups/equipment, and have a different focus.