So many hobbies!

A sneak peak...

of my new bead embroidery piece.  You won't be seeing much more until it's done as I like to keep these things under wraps until they're done.

Isn't that face cabochon wonderful?!  I wish I had a lot more but when I bought it there were only two and I grabbed them both.  I have one more to play with.  Beading was what I was into before spinning and knitting.  I did it pretty much exclusively for 2 or 3 years before I got burned out.  It took me quite a while to actually sit down and start this new piece but now that I have, I'm really enjoying myself.  I will say this will be a necklace when it's completed and that I'll be selling it on my Etsy store.  I haven't given up the dream of working, at least part-time, for myself, creating and selling my own artwork.  I've gotten quite a few compliments on my other bead embroidery pieces so I have hopes my current and future pieces will sell. 

Just in case you were worried I'd given up spinning, here's predrafted roving from this weekend's dyeing.  Bead embroidery I find stimulating - spinning calms and relaxes me.  I like to spin before I go to bed.

Bead embroidery

This was another night of a little bit of knitting (still not done with that 2nd sock) and a little bit of spinning (more Cormo) but nothing exciting to show.  So, I'm shamelessly showing off some of the bead embroidery I've done in the past couple of years.  Beading and bead embroidery were my last obsession.  I suspect that I might have been a magpie in a former life since I'm seem to be attracted to bright, shiney and colorful things.  Hence my attraction to beads.  All that lovely saturated color.  Yum! We have a great bead store in town that offers classes that rival the top beading conventions.  My inspiration for bead embroidery was Sheri Serafini.  Visit her website here and you'll see why. 

I wanted to thank the folks who left me comments about my theory.  I'm convinced now that I get better sleep on those nights when I've done some spinning.  I don't mean that it helps me fall asleep.  I've never had any problems with that (thank goodness!) but once I am asleep, I sleep deeply all through the night.  I'll often wake up in the morning and find I'm in the same position I was in when I fell asleep.  Good sleep is a wonderful thing!