My beadwork is calling...

For months now I can hear that voice "my beads are calling me" come back, come play, come create they say...

I started beading in 1997 when I purchased my now wedding dress from a friend. It was only worn once, a design I wanted and with 3 small children, affordable.

After a few trips to the local bead and sewing store and 100 hours later, I had the wedding dress that was mine. I had never picked up a bead before and created something that was really beautiful, (that I could remember).

When I returned from getting married, I went to the local library and took out a few books on beads and beadwork. After a few months of teaching myself to bead I one day said to my Mother, I feel like I've done this before, its something so familiar to me.

When my children were in elementary school, I would go for an hour or so and teach a few children who wanted to learn the basics of beadwork. Just stringing pretty little seed beads onto nymo thread, making a necklace or for the older girls, I would teach daisy chains.

I used to sell my beadwork at craft fairs (this gave me extra money to buy more beads) and I once sold beautiful loomed eagle necklace that I had created at a gallery in Ft. Langley.

What is my favorite type of beadwork you might ask? Native, I will say. Spirit wands, powwow necklaces and deerskin beaded bags.

For now I will tell the beads that call, just wait! Its still winter, cold and my yarn won't stop calling me to crochet =)

My old website of my work

http://jodilynnmolloy.tripod.com/index.html