{"id":1035,"date":"2011-07-16T15:48:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T22:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2011-07-17T09:36:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T16:36:35","slug":"to-bead-or-not-to-bead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/to-bead-or-not-to-bead\/","title":{"rendered":"To Bead or Not to Bead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been extremely into making earrings, as you can see&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beading1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1036\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beading1.jpg\" title=\"Beading1\" width=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beading1.jpg 429w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beading1-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All but one of these I&#39;ve made in the last couple of weeks. I recently got back into bead weaving with seed beads, as you can see by the plethora of earrings done in a Native American-ish style. The one pair of earrings that I didn&#39;t make this week is the white and green beaded pair second from the right on the second-to-last row. I made those in high school, probably when I was about 15 or so. Obviously, classic styles never go out of style! That pair inspired several others, and I&#39;ve really just been having a fun time putting colors together.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Late last year, my aunt January decided that she wanted to get rid of her extensive seed bead collection, and my cousin Janelle, aunt Jane, and I were the delighted recipients of the collection that we divided up amongst ourselves. I wound up with a case full of beautiful colors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC03605-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1037\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC03605-1.jpg\" title=\"DSC03605-1\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC03605-1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC03605-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSC03605-1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yep, the motherlode.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My aunt used to make beaded eggs with the seed beads, a very cool small sculpture using real egg shells. I have a few, two are characters I used to draw pictures for:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beading2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1038\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beading2.jpg\" title=\"Beading2\" width=\"429\" srcset=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beading2.jpg 429w, http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Beading2-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aren&#39;t they awesome? I keep them in my china cabinet for all to see.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My aunt and cousin made necklaces for J out of the beads, and I have been sort of spinning my wheels for months trying to think of what to make, till I finally landed on the idea to make the earrings. And so, the proto-type craziness began. I&#39;ve completed one pair so far, with two more to go, then I will send them off to her.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later this summer I will have my cousin over so I can show her how to make the earrings and also teach her how to use a bead loom. I haven&#39;t loomed in years, but it will be nice to get back to my beading roots. It wasn&#39;t until college and beyond that I developed my current style; for years and years I worked almost exclusively with seed beads. I recently found my collection of barrettes I made in high school &#8211; I will have to take pictures and show them, they are actually quite nice!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, so I have definitely been bitten by the bead bug this summer, no idea when the desire to knit will return.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:30px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/to-bead-or-not-to-bead\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I have been extremely into making earrings, as you can see&#8230; All but one of these I&#39;ve made in the last couple of weeks. I recently got back into bead weaving with seed beads, as you can see by the plethora of earrings done in a Native American-ish style. The one pair of earrings &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/to-bead-or-not-to-bead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To Bead or Not to Bead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beading","category-daily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}