Bead Journal Project/January Beginnings

While I am actually much further along in my piece I wanted to share the first picture I took after reading Robin Atkin's post "Taking and Editing Quality Photos of Beads and Beadwork".  Also, Gerry Krueger had some good advice on our BJP 3 blog about resizing photos.  Excellent advice from both women, thank you! I don't have all the beads displayed that I plan on using.  The original beaded piece will be 4" x 6" with a 1" border (there is a 3" border in the picture so that I will have 2" to stretch behind the mounting board).

There are 3 machine embroidered snowflakes--I want to see if I can incorporate machine embroidery into each of my pieces without the embroidery becoming a focal point (just an excuse to use my lovely embroidery machine).  The piece is titled "I wish It Would Snow" as I live, for the moment, in SE Texas and it was actually, kind of, snowing on the day I conceived of my idea.  The white at the bottom will be partial snow mounds and I will have a purple twilight because, well, just because I can.  What I love the most so far?  If you look at my purple geode you will see that I glued it partially "out of bounds."  As stated in the rules there are NO bead police, and for someone who used to dispatch for the California Highway Patrol, rules are a big deal!  So, even though I said my piece is 4" x 6" I sneaked it a little larger.  I get to ignore the rules!!!! Well, sometimes I will ignore the rules (if you could see me now I am tap dancing with glee in my head).  I live in a very remote area and just getting the beads was an adventure in itself, but I will save that story for another day........