jewelry

bought a few jewelry making supplies today so this is my J . hehe yeah a bit of a stretch but that's my story and I am sticking to it.

Mom and I recently learned how to do kumihimo which is a Japanese type of braiding that you can make necklaces out of. our first attempt was with yarn, floss and threads but we plan to make the jump to adding some beads for the next step. you may remember this post So today we went shopping for supplies

friendship beads

Part of our vacation was my chance to meet in person an internet friend that I met about 10 years ago. we are both rubber stampers and belong to an yahoo group called 2000 stampers after the year we formed it. A few years ago holly moved to florida and opened a bead store and is doing great at it.
Bailey comes to work with her and is always a pleasant fellow to meet. If in the tampa area visit her store ebeads. lots of fun and great supplies and samples

while there she taught us a form of beading that we started with only fibers (a great way to use up our fibers) it is called kimihimo the lesson came in handy when we were waiting at the airport and kept us busy.

Thanks holly for the lesson and yet another addiction to our list of hobbies. I have since finished my sample threads and need to take some pictures of it but will wait till I make a piece of fused glass to hang from it and then adhere the clasp.