tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55588992024-11-01T04:22:49.997-05:00Sylviebead Journal: The blah blah blah-og of Sylvie Elise Lansdowne<br> her artistic journey and studio lifeSylviehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02541006282416192234noreply@blogger.comBlogger733125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5558899.post-4607342459840176522020-11-07T17:34:00.002-05:002020-11-07T17:34:13.495-05:00

&nbsp;Another day of chickens... in colors I liked a little more (because I unpacked a box of glass in the garage that had a better assortment than what I had been working with). LOTS more unpacking and organizing or glass and hopefully locating my tool tote which seems to be missing entirely (I had it out of the boxes 3 years ago but now it’s not anywhere).&nbsp;I’m missing my own tools but

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&nbsp;Most of my beadmaking in the last years I was making beads was specifically for my beadwork projects. I’ve been wanting to start designing new projects again and that is a lot of what led me back to beadmaking again. &nbsp;By making my own beads I can engineer them to be used for bead weaving.&nbsp;I was doodling the other day and decided to try to make one of my doodles come to life as a

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&nbsp;day 2 of bead making after a 3amd a half year hiatus was better than day 1 for sure. &nbsp;I took glass in some colors I enjoy working in and just let myself play with small beads. Making stringer, encased stringer and lots of small beads. &nbsp;It wasn’t a huge quantity of beads for the 3 hours I was there, but I’m making progress. I even attempted a mermaid at the end just to see if I

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&nbsp;She's alive!It's been a hot minute since i posted anything here.&nbsp; Mostly because I was not doing any glass work, so I really didn't have anything to talk about.&nbsp; Because this blog was originally to follow my work in the studio, I thought it might be a good idea to re-visit it as I put my toe back into the "pond" again.I've been on the torch twice in the last week and the results

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&nbsp; 2011 GGMs&nbsp; (plus one... our host at the after-party...&nbsp; because every star-studded gala has an after-party, right??) Reposted from 2011...&nbsp; (because tomorrow night is THE party and I know you care!!)&nbsp;&nbsp; GGMs Yes... it's that day of the year... the day that I blog about the subject that my mom says you readers don't care about....&nbsp; The Girls

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Having survived the end of the world, I figured I should post something on the blog to let everyone know that we're still alive here at Sylviebeads studio.&nbsp; I have a few days without kids to get work done on beadwork projects, glass projects AND artsy craftsy things that are required for Christmas gifts.&nbsp; I've been doing lots of online research for one of my gifts and I need to go out

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(wow!&nbsp; 2 blog postings in one week??!!!&nbsp; You'd think it was the end of the world or something.... oh wait... that's next week.) SO guess what's online now??!!!&nbsp; The Bead and Button Show Class Catalog!!!!&nbsp; WOO HOO!&nbsp; And you know what that means??!!&nbsp; MY CLASSES are online and have big pretty pictures and great descriptions and you can read all about them before you

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Warning:&nbsp; Somewhat whiny post ahead.... I try really hard to have a good attitude as much as I can, but some days it's just tougher than others.&nbsp; I need some CPR for my artistic spirit and I'm not sure what the ticket is for that, so bear with me as I talk it out with myself and whine a little. This has always been a place of honesty... where I write my thoughts about art and the

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I just opened a box from a supplier and it's filled with..... FEATHERS!!!!!!!!! (not loose flying around ones... they're all contained and in pretty packages) I cannot WAIT to play with them.&nbsp; They're part of some mixed media stuff I've been doing for art shows.&nbsp; I'm putting things together for my Chastain Park (Atlanta, GA) show, which is the first weekend in November, BUT as it

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So... remember the post from the other day????&nbsp; The one where I convinced myself that it's ok that EVERYONE doesn't like me because MY customers like me? The one where I said that I thought the colors I used for my Bead and Button class proposals weren't me??? Well, apparently they were SOMEBODY because..... after 4 tries.....&nbsp; I'm going to be teaching at Bead and Button!!!!!&

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In two weeks I will be in California!!!!!!!&nbsp;&nbsp; I'm teaching at one of my favorite bead stores, Creative Castle! (shhhh don't tell the other bead stores I said that!&nbsp; I love them too, but Carole was a bead customer long before I ever taught beadwork) Creative Castle is in Newbury Park, CA and is a FABULOUS store with TONS of seed beads and crystals and wonderfully fun staff there to

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When I was in college, I worked at a high-end dress store, owned by a tiny little Italian lady who was a cross between Olympia Dukakis's character in Moonstruck and the tiny ghost-communicating lady from Poltergeist with a dose of Sophia Loren and Mr. Magoo thrown in for good measure.&nbsp; The store carried a huge variety of cocktail/formal dresses.... and some of them, made my eyes hurt because

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Hi all!! I told you I was going to try to be better about blogging... so here I am. What's been going on since last we spoke... 1.&nbsp; I went to Philadelphia for Bead Fest.&nbsp; It was a lot of fun and a little successful, which is a nice combo.&nbsp; I hadn't been to BeadFest since the very first year of its existence (2001 maybe?) and only went this time because I was offered a half of a

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Hello dear patient blog readers.&nbsp; I know I've deserted you for a while, but I have more to say than can be fit into a status on my Facebook page, so I'm blogging. 1.&nbsp; I survived my summer of kids at home while trying to work.&nbsp; Crazy... yet it happens every single year.&nbsp; I concentrated on designing new projects and writing patterns, which made my schedule a little more

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I finished it!&nbsp; And for all my whining yesterday, I really do love it.&nbsp; It FEELS good on my wrist and that's a really important quality for jewelry.&nbsp; You want to wear pieces that feel good when worn! As for my whining about working in colors that aren't "me" yesterday...my friend Melissa (waving through the computer at Melissa) said on Facebook that she immediately recognized

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Hello dear blog readers (if there are any left after my many hiatuses lately... and there might not be any after this long long posting) I know that I desert you way too often, saying things in a briefer version on my Facebook "fan" page (is there another word for that?&nbsp; it sounds kind of conceited honestly!)&nbsp; There are times, however, that what I have to say just doesn't fit into a

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So, after posting pictures of the new Head Over Heels Zombie girl, I've been flooded with emails saying "I'm not going to Bead and Button, so how do I get one??" Here's the answer... I will bring home any remaining kits and will fill orders from people who preordered via PayPal (more on that in a minute). THEN I will start making more to fill additional preorders and after that, I will make more

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It's ONE WEEK till the Bead and Button Show opens in Milwaukee, WI.&nbsp; I'm only a few days away from leaving and I realized that I probably should say something about it here on the blog. HERE is what's new....&nbsp; Head Over Heels Zombie Girl Limited Edition I will do a bit more blogging about the projects and the show in the next few days.&nbsp; I need to catch things up a bit, BUT

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This is a super short blog post (but don't I ALWAYS say that??) to say "I'm back from Tucson!" I'm exhausted.&nbsp; I'm happy.&nbsp; It was a cuh-ray-zee show full of ups and downs, but mostly ups.&nbsp; I spent a fantastic 8 days with a very good friend and I realized how much I really miss her shining face in my life every week!!!&nbsp; (Alex, you really DO need to win the lottery...then you

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If you purchased from me at the Best Bead Show in Tucson on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, PLEASE contact me.&nbsp; There was a glitch in processing and the credit card purchases were never really processed and numbers were not saved in the system to re-process them. This means, that as of right now, if you used a credit or debit card, your sale wasn't actually paid for.&nbsp; I'm sorry for the

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There is so much stuff I want to blog about right now, but I barely have time to do the regular work I do, let alone write.&nbsp; BUT I do have a little bit to say. What I DO want to blog about today is my silly new beads.&nbsp; The Unfortunate Pet ornaments have had a new incarnation as beads... they'll soon be jewelry as well.&nbsp; I've had pictures of them on Facebook the last few days to get

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My studio days lately have been flower after flower after flower. I'm prepping for my two Tucson shows and the kits I'm replenishing need flower beads... And lots of them. Luckily, my color schemes go from project to project, so I can make lots of the same colors and divide them between projects as needed. At the same time that it's lucky that they are all the same flower... It's horrible!

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"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see."&nbsp; ~John Burroughs &nbsp;I love that.&nbsp; It totally captures what goes on in my mind half the time... just add in "art I want to make" (and maybe subtract a few walks)&nbsp;&nbsp; I have come to love

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Those who have read my blog for a long time know that this isn't always the "sunny side of the studio" blog.&nbsp; There are definitely highs and lows in being an artist, and I haven't shied away from the lows... they're real.&nbsp; I definitely do the "happy dance" whenever possible, but this isn't one of those days. It has not been a stellar week in the Sylvie studio.&nbsp; First shaking

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Back in the studio today... for reals. It wasn't a long day because, as I told my followers on Facebook yesterday, my hands are NOT wanting to cooperate.&nbsp; Of course, they wait until right before Tucson to do this... but that's part of WHY they do this.... stress and anxiety. My hands shook for almost a year from 2005 to late 2006 and then almost overnight they quit.&nbsp; Looking back, I

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