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Hmmmm - I don't think I can even remember how exactly I came to the
newsgroup - other than that I was interested in beads and looking for places to talk about them. That was several years ago. I started out like most people - finding beads in a shop and instantly falling in love. My first beads were bought at a fabric store - the one where I worked actually. I liked seeds best to begin with. I started out stitching them to fabric for embellishing, and then moved on to making hair jewelry. I began weaving bracelets not long after that. Then I found rec.crafts.beads after playing with beads for about 5 or 6 years. Here, I was introduced to all sorts of cool things - it was here that I first became interested in stringing. I loved looking at all the pictures of people's work, and also loved looking at pics of beads themselves. Searching eBay came not long after that - along with beginning to make work that was good enough to sell. I fell in love with lampwork and began to buy tons of it, making it into jewelry and collecting it. Same with Swarovski and sterling silver. Those became my three favorite types of beads - along with seed beads of course. As time passed by I became practically obsessed with lampwork. So much so that I started posting lists of it from eBay and Justbeads and other places. I was so in love, that I talked about it non stop. Pretty soon, the posters here got the idea of helping me take my first class, and they got together (with Sooz heading the whole thing - that sweetie!!) and gave me a gift ceritificate that had enough money on it to take a local bead making class and buy some supplies. I was dumbfounded, moved and ecstatic. I took that class - a little over a year ago - and was hooked. I have met some wonderful people from this group, and hope to meet many more. The first person I met face to face was Paulette Insall - we became friends instantly, and because we lived in the same town, we spent a lot of time together. She is also a lampworker, and soon we struck up a deal where I became her apprentice. That lasted not long enough, because I then had to move to WA for hubby's work. We still see eachother often though, and remain very good friends. This group has gone through a ton since I have started posting - and I am sure will go through a lot more. I have forged some wonderful and lifelong friendships here, even with people I haven't met face to face. I love it here - no matter what we go through - and will always be grateful to the people here for helping me to find my bliss. -- Kandice Seeber Air & Earth Designs http://www.lampwork.net This recovery thing is boring to the utmost. Im reading most of the posts and catching up slowly, but havent energy to post much. Im taking this getting better job seriously. Reading posts is fun. Could I ask you, oldtimers and newcomers alike, to amuse me with the story of how you came to RCB and why you stay, what brought you to beads and what keeps you enthralled with this lovely medium? It would mean countless minutes of diversion for me. Make them as long as you want. We can just use up the bandwidth from one of the less populated groups. :-) Thanks in Advance, Diana, not feeling bad, just feeling tired. :-) -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 |
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This recovery thing is boring to the utmost. Im reading most of the posts
and catching up slowly, but havent energy to post much. Im taking this getting better job seriously. Reading posts is fun. Could I ask you, oldtimers and newcomers alike, to amuse me with the story of how you came to RCB and why you stay, what brought you to beads and what keeps you enthralled with this lovely medium? It would mean countless minutes of diversion for me. Make them as long as you want. We can just use up the bandwidth from one of the less populated groups. :-) Thanks in Advance, Diana, not feeling bad, just feeling tired. :-) -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 |
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Diana Curtis wrote:
This recovery thing is boring to the utmost. Im reading most of the posts and catching up slowly, but havent energy to post much. Im taking this getting better job seriously. Reading posts is fun. Could I ask you, oldtimers and newcomers alike, to amuse me with the story of how you came to RCB and why you stay, what brought you to beads and what keeps you enthralled with this lovely medium? It would mean countless minutes of diversion for me. Make them as long as you want. We can just use up the bandwidth from one of the less populated groups. :-) Thanks in Advance, Diana, not feeling bad, just feeling tired. :-) Got interested in beads through belly dancing, decided to make my own costume bits and pieces. Then realised that to co-ordinate the jewlery I'd have to make my own as well, not got very far with it yet, RL interuption and trouble finding supplies locally, but I have ideas in my head. Update from 6 week check-up with GP, she told me to wait until 2 months are up to start back with the dancing so I've got more time to finish sequining at least one veil! -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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I started looking at the newsgroup, I think, on the suggestion of Suzanne Hye
of Hye on Beads. I also used to go on the rec.crafts.professional n/g, but that was hacked by trolls so it is not as good as it used to be. I use semiprecious beads, charms, and dichroic glass in my work. The dichroic glass I fuse in my own kiln. I admire lampworkers, but I found out I'm afraid of torches when I took silversmithing (don't ask), so I buy lampwork, but don't do it myself. I do craft fairs and Suzanne sells my dichroic pendants in her bead shop. Patti |
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I figure before too long I will have met EVERYONE here. LOL!
Celine wrote: right now I'm looking forward to the opportunity to meet up with Tink and Jeanne IRL, on the way back from Canada! Then Kathy N-V said: I can't wait for January, when I'm going to Florida to meet Tink and Co. DH keeps telling me - "go! take as long as you need, your friends will watch out for you." |
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Well, it's 4:30 a.m. EDT, I can't sleep, and I don't want to watch a movie
about piranhas, so I'll tell my story.... I have been an artistic "fidgeter" since I can remember. Art can be a good thing to help you forget all the crap going on in your life. But I won't go there. Anyhoo...I'm lucky enough to have at leats one person in my life who would "feed" my obsessions. I was always drawing, doodling, whatever. I used to spend summers with my grandma, and one day she bought some of those plastic tri- beads and some string. Youngin' that I was, I just strung them. I did about a gazillion of them and promptly took two strands and hung them from the name sign on the porch. There they dangled in the wind, and she left them up until they finally fell off. That was the beginning. In high school, I remember this guy (yes, guy) who brought in necklaces of simple seed beads strung on fishing line. He sold them for $2 a piece. I thought, I can do that. Not long after that day, I headed out to the local store and bought a little of this, and a little of that. So here I am, for quite awhile, with this really dinky "stash" of beads. My mom got me a little beading loom for Christmas once. I've made a total of 1 thing on it. I don't have the patience to thread it. LOL. Every now and then, I'd get bored and make something. Usually just seeds strung on sewing thread (multiple times of course) with barrel clasps for closures. A few years ago, a couple of people asked me to make some necklaces for them. I was stringing them bead by bead. I forgot about the little beading needle that came with the loom! I've even gone so far as to separate about 5,000 seeds by hand, by color. I was really bored and don't plan on doing that ever again. Ok, fast forward to present day. Well, about a year ago, give or take. B/f was surfing on the 'puter, when I walked in and noticed he was surfing newsgroups. I had to see what the deal was. One day I popped in the word 'beads' and voila! RCB. I swear, the first couple of conversations I read I thought "these people are on crack!" I had stumbled into the "close-knit" conversations the happen quite frequently. And then somebody mentioned peyote. I kept thinking they were talking about the drug. Something about a peyote purse. I think my thought was along the line of "dang, they sure are brave to post about peyote online!" LOLOL!! THEN I found out in was the *stitch*! I think I must've been on crack! Somebody would mention something they did, and I had to try it. So, in the short time I've been here, I have tried it all except actually *creating* the beads myself. I'm not any good at a lot of things, but there is plenty I can do. And now the kitchen table has "mysteriously" disappeared.... Now I can't seem to get enough of the little buggers. There are days I just sit at the table and stare at them, take some out and fiddle, then put them back. I like to run my fingers through them. I stay here because I'm always wanting to do something new, or get some inspiration. I can't help it, I'm addicted. I didn't even try to resist.... Rachel T. Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons For you are crunchy and good with ketchup. |
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Thank you for sharing your story Jo Jo. Its always a matter of curiosity to
me to learn how people came to be where they are in their lives, and also how they found usenet. Im enjoying this so much! Diana -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "Jo Jo" wrote in message hlink.net... I'd never heard of newsgroups before. I was reading posts on AOL's bead board last year and sometimes someone would mention rec.craft.beads and I finally asked what it was and someone posted a link. Needless to say, I stopped posting on AOL's bead board, not that I didn't like the ones on the bead board, rcb was just easier and not so slow loading as the bead board. I swear that thing was so slow, sometimes it would finish loading but it wouldn't show the posts and I'd have to close it and re-open it. Then they changed the format of it and I think it made it even worse. I love reading your posts here, you guys are a riot sometimes and I love Kandice's droolworthy lists and I've learned alot from ya'll to. I don't know what it is about beads, I love the way they feel for one thing. I also love it that I can make something for myself or a gift for someone rather than buying it. Not that I don't still buy jewelry, I'm just more apt to make my own first. Its just fun. Also, another thing about finding RCB, I look for better beads and I try to think of pieces that are not ordinary. So a big thanks to all of you. Jo Jo "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... This recovery thing is boring to the utmost. Im reading most of the posts and catching up slowly, but havent energy to post much. Im taking this getting better job seriously. Reading posts is fun. Could I ask you, oldtimers and newcomers alike, to amuse me with the story of how you came to RCB and why you stay, what brought you to beads and what keeps you enthralled with this lovely medium? It would mean countless minutes of diversion for me. Make them as long as you want. We can just use up the bandwidth from one of the less populated groups. :-) Thanks in Advance, Diana, not feeling bad, just feeling tired. :-) -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 |
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Thats one of the most appealing things about this group to me too, the level
of discussions. They may start serious and end up baudy, or vice versa, but they arent quite the stereotypical talk of other *womens groups*, recipes and ...I was going to say fashion tips but there is some of that here as it relates to coming trends in jewelry! Diana -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "Kathy N-V" Beads might be the reason we all got here in the first place, but the discussions cover everything under the sun. This is a very mind expanding place -- Kathy N-V |
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That wins the award for the most unique way to come to beading so far. Im
very surprised that you have to wait so long to resume belly dancing, but it is better to be safe than sorry. I hope we get to see pictures of your veil when its done! Diana -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 "melinda" wrote in message news:1061173487.334745@webserver... Diana Curtis wrote: This recovery thing is boring to the utmost. Im reading most of the posts and catching up slowly, but havent energy to post much. Im taking this getting better job seriously. Reading posts is fun. Could I ask you, oldtimers and newcomers alike, to amuse me with the story of how you came to RCB and why you stay, what brought you to beads and what keeps you enthralled with this lovely medium? It would mean countless minutes of diversion for me. Make them as long as you want. We can just use up the bandwidth from one of the less populated groups. :-) Thanks in Advance, Diana, not feeling bad, just feeling tired. :-) Got interested in beads through belly dancing, decided to make my own costume bits and pieces. Then realised that to co-ordinate the jewlery I'd have to make my own as well, not got very far with it yet, RL interuption and trouble finding supplies locally, but I have ideas in my head. Update from 6 week check-up with GP, she told me to wait until 2 months are up to start back with the dancing so I've got more time to finish sequining at least one veil! -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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