It's been ages since I last posted here, for two reasons:
- I've been totally blocked on the main piece I was working on - the Steampunk design - and can't figure out how to finish it. It's driving me nuts!
- I set aside my main beading for a while to work on my entry for the Bead Society of Victoria's 2010 Bead Challenge. Of course, I couldn't post pictures of that on my blog, because it's a competition! The rotten thing is that I because totally blocked on that one as well. After several attempts at redesign and re-works, in the end I didn't get it finished in time to enter into the competition. I'm pretty sure I can re-work was was going to be the central medallion into a hair clip though, so at least it won't be a total loss. That's now four times I've purchased the beads, and only once I've actually completed an entry.
All is not completely lost! I finally finished a piece this morning that I started in a class with Marcia De Costger back in mid-November. It's called Romantica, and I'm very happy with the way it turned out. I stuffed up a couple of times and had to pull apart the chain a couple of times and re-do it, which was annoying, but I got there in the end.
I've decided that this next year is going to be my UFO year. I need to finish off some of the projects that are sitting around my house. Some are half done, some haven't even begun, they are just boxes filled with beads and ideas. So I'm not going to start anything new until I have some of these older pieces completed.
