Any Beaders out there? What kinds of things do you like making?

Actually you make flowers out of beads. Meaning you create each individual leaf and put them togetheir to create a flower. It takes a lot of time and patience to create even just one leaf. But it's an everlasting flower though. And you make them out of seed beads around size 11 so if that could help you imagine how much time and work they take. And I have crosstitched or crocheted but I'm not really any good yet. But hopefully someday:)

And thanks for making your first post with me! Enjoy Mylotting!! ANd if you have any questions feel free to ask me!!

I an't stand working with Hemp. That's great your son enjoys making crafts and that's really great he's talented in it too!

And I will look into the cosignment shops. Where I live there's very few because we have so many good wills that are really cheap. But thanks for giving me a suggestion!!

I should know this but is Precious Metal Clay the name of the company or is that the actual product?

I just started doing beadweaving last year but I'm not very good at using the brick stitch. I have to peynote down and a few others but I dont know the technical name of it.

PMC is the name of the product. it's a clay made with silver, with water and a binder to make it a clay.

when you heat it with a blowtorch or a kiln, the water and binder burn off, leaving you with something made of silver.

another well known brand is called Art Clay Silver. I haven't used this, but understand it's pretty similar.

so I've been making beads, and also pendants out of silver. it's great fun.

Sounds really interesting. I would love to have a kiln but I can't afford one of those and I'm not sure if I would trust myself with a torch. But it sounds really pretty and different to work with. Maybe when my hubby and I buy are house we will have enough room.

Thanks about the site. I believe I've been there before but thank you for letting me know about it and reminding me of it. Thanks!!

I'm not sure what that means "pow wows" or is that just a figure of speech?

That's great you put your crafts in consignments it definately a way to get your name out there.

My mom use to do craft shows and I'd love too but I have no idea where to start and how to find them around... Maybe in the local paper... I'll have to check.

A pow wow is a place where Native Americans get together to dance, sing, drum and of course to trade things. At a lot of pow wows there are vendors that sell to the people that come to the pow wows. Lots of pow wows are open to the public, others ore open to only those in that particular tribe.I try to go to the open to the public ones so that I have a better chance of selling my crafts. I am a "carded " Native American which means that I have proof that I am Native American. To find out if there are any pow wows around you lust "Google" in pow wows. You might be surprised at the number of pow wows that there are.

Thanks for letting me know! I am part native american my mother's father's mother was full blooded native american. But I'm less than a quarter so I don't think I would be qualified as a "carded" native american. But thank you i didn't know about them. I like the idea of another way of making money with my crafts:)

Jewelry making is a nice past time. I love it and the creativity that comes to you when your createing this helps too. There's a lot of great sites that show different patterns and such. Also you can buy books pretty cheap on ebay on how to bead or even on paperbackswap too.

That is really pretty! It must have took a while to create it. But it looks like it was worth it in the end:)

Well, I didn't know I was making a cell phone bag until I needed a bag for my cell phone. then I adapted this thing I had been making into a bag, and it wasn't hard.

It works and it's pretty too. definately something great to show off:)