Just Me?

Last night, after work I ran downstairs with my 8ft of strung beads, 7 silver rings, medium weight cord and a box of safety pins to try and figure out the proportions of the 7th house lung necklace.

And I created a monstrosities that would have turned off any shabari enthusiast and horrified any punk.

But after an hour of fiddling, I created this.

Which allowed me to create this

The first colum is the label for each strand so I don't get confused. The second colum is the number of beads in each stand. As measured by a single strand of size 11 seed beads. And the third colum is that length in centimeters. It turned out that there are 20 size 11 sead beads in 5 centimeters so the math was easy.

I also created the strand with a 5, 10, and 20 could pattern so they would be easy to count.

Anyways, I did some math the sum of one side of lung is 259.75cm so the whole thing will be 519.5cm or a little over 5 meters....

I'm very excited!

they should make it easier

Whenever I saw something very well-executed but spectacularly stupid - like a shitpost meme drawing, an animation with the dumbest plot fathomable, an impressively well-written piece of fanfiction where two minor characters try to fix a blender and end up building a car, or a really catchy song dedicated to getting one's dick stuck in a toaster - I used to wonder "who has this kind of time in their hands?" before I realised that the idiotic things made by someone with enough drive, skill and talent to go pro if they wanted to probably already is a professional. If they could be doing far more serious, but equally demanding works for a living, they probably do.

The question isn't "who has this much free time to make something like this?", but "what the hell were they procrastinating?"

Harrow the Ninth in a nutshell

Teri Greeves, a Kiowa artist, celebrates her husband’s Anishinaabe culture in this artwork through beaded designs inspired by aesthetics and dance traditions indigenous to the Great Lakes region. Floral motifs and contemporary jingle-dress dancers in complementary colors adorn a pair of high-heeled sneakers, a riff on the traditional knee-high moccasins worn by Kiowa women. Along with glass and bugle beads, the designs are made with chonchos and cabochon shells, which add a three-dimensional element to the work, and Swarovski crystals. Greeves says, “I found a way to use the materials and techniques of the old masters and mix them up with new materials and techniques for my generation, all in an attempt to interpret this twenty-first century world I live in.” 

This work recently came back on view, you can find it in the American Art galleries. 

Posted by Elizabeth Treptow Teri Greeves (Kiowa, born 1970). Great Lakes Girls, 2008. Glass beads, bugle beads, Swarovski crystals, sterling silver stamped conchae, spiny oyster shell cabochons, canvas high-heeled sneakers. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Stanley J. Love, by exchange, 2009.1a-b. Creative Commons-BY 

Another commercial I would produce as an advertising executive:

A husband and wife eat a bland dinner together in a dimly-lit kitchen. They don't speak or look at each other. The meal: a pathetic Salisbury steak.

Cut to their bedroom at night. The wife lays sleeping in the bed while in the background the husband is putting on her dress, pantyhose, pearl necklace, heels, makeup, and a wig. When he's done he quietly leaves the room. The wife opens her eyes as soon as she's sure he's gone.

Now we're in a seedy dive bar. A small crowd of mustachioed men wearing leather jackets, black boots, and sunglasses sip beers and puff cigarettes while the "show" unfolds. Camera pans down, then pans to the side. Between the black boots we see the husband on his hands and knees, greedily eating a Chipotle Chorizo Burrito Bowl with Cilantro Lime Rice from a plastic dog bowl on the floor. His makeup is ruined, face smeared with sour cream and hot sauce.

A man steps forward. The husband looks up, and his expression changes to that of a deer in the headlights. Cut to reveal that the "man" standing before the husband is none other than his wife, in elaborate drag as a Tom of Finland biker, false mustache and officer cap and all. She smiles warmly, and nods. The husband smiles too, and resumes his meal.

Chipotle: Own Your Fantasy

the prince of egypt + the onion

My regularly scheduled bullshit it still techicly on hole till all of thr new stuff starts coming in but I did get some new needles (since I was down to my last and its sort of curved at this point) and some new 8lb line.

Last time I bought line, I bought it from an outdoors store in Oregon. But this time I bought it from Amazon.

And I discovered a strange thing.

Both are 125yd but the one from amazon that has "beadsmith" on it is much larger.

This feels like a waste of plastic...and I'm now worried that I may have paid more for a logo and extra plastic. May have to find a new local fishing store...

Making another necklass with the second house design because I love the way it looks and as I do i....I remember how much I hated doing this design in the first place....

It take forever and it's boring....its just fucking herringbonestitch and i hate herringbone stitch .....but if I don't finish it now I never will....and it will be cute when its not my problem.....its the judith duterous of beading patterns...and I need to get it done because I want to work on the 7th house some more....

And I've decided again that I hate the ribbon I got for the 5th house because it's not quite saturated enough of a brown and I'm poorly and hate everything....and by that, I do mean that I'm having issues getting my meds again.....

So here are pictures of the troublemakers

Honestly my real problem with the fith is that I don't know how to sew the cord well

You ever catch yourself staring at a coworker’s sweater too closely? Like oh man that’s a nice sweater how could I knit that for myself, but you’ve been looking too long counting the rows of rib and the person’s starting to look at you like wtf…