Been awhile

Well it has been awhile, my fault I've been beading and I had a friend ask me about my blog and I couldn't say anything but, oopppsss.

My friend has kindly offered to help me catch things up here and stay on top of it well maybe to at least not slide under it.

It was her idea but I agreed that I need to stop whining about the state and my unemployed status and start talking about what it is that I do do. I bead, I make jewelry I actually have a website named Saha's Beadworks and I have put Saha's story here so that any who care to may read about this wonderful horse. Yes, horse, Saha is a horse, she is or should I say was, a wild mustang that I adopted out at Palomino Valley outside of Reno Nevada. She is now totally tame, well as tame as a mustang gets which means it depends on how they feel that day. She is tame to the point where she is very easily handled and she stands for the farrier as long as she gets her apple treats. Actually she throws her legs at you to get apple treats, you have to be careful not to get knocked into the next county by flying Saha legs. She is my sweet girl and I love her so much that I decided to name my beading business after her.

I enjoy making jewelry very much but the thing that has captured me totally is loom beading. I always wanted to learn how to loom cloth and I tried, it didn't "grab" be so I tried looming beads and this for me was like an answer to a question I have asked my whole life, how can I make patterns using colors in a medium that I like, viola, loom beading.

I counted today, I have 9 bead looms of various sizes and styles and I have 98 two ounce jars filled with colored beads and 11 two ounce jars filled with colored cut beads. If nothing else they are great to look at and pretty much make me drool, sad maybe but true. I always am able to find a new bead whenever I go into Carson City to the place where I get my supply of beads. For me this experience of going into the bead store is akin to a guy going into Home Depot or maybe Summit Racing, it's a candy store no doubts about it, you don't gain weight, you just get poor.

Lately I have had a lot or requests for hat bands. I hand draw the design, I select the colors, I string the loom and I bead. When the beading is finished I cut the leather for the backing, I then hand sew the bead work onto the leather and finish it off with conchos. I am going to attach a picture of a hat band that I just finished. The design is my interpretaion of a Navajo blanket. The beading was hand sewn onto the leather back with sinew for strength. I hope someone will enjoy this piece because I really enjoyed making this one, I think it is a stunning hat band. Oh, by the way, I never make the same design twice, it will be one of a kind unless the person who buys it wants me to make one just like it for them.

Now if I can just figure out how to get the picture attached....