Welcome to my 2008 Bead Journal

The theme this year is "Mirror Mirror on the Wall" - a color study. Each month I made a 5" mirror wall piece with a different color theme. The colors reflected what I was doing and how I felt. I also included a machine embroidery each month as this was new to me (note: I did adjust many embroideries with software to make some of them my own). The challenge for me was to 1) explore new color themes and 2) to use something new that I've never done before on each piece. A few of these are highlighted on the embrodery site whree I got some of the patterns.

Note: I beaded the back of the mirror so the wall piece will hang with the mirror towards the wall (so much better to see the beads!). Click on the image to see it larger and information about it.

September 2008 Purple, Blue, Rose	October 2008 Metallics	November 2008 Fall Colors	December 2008 Winter Colors
January 2009 Pink and Green	February 2009 Red, Black, Gold and White	March 2009 Buddhist colors - Burgandy and Golden Yellow	April 2009 Purple and Yellow
May 2009 Spring Colors	June 2009 Crazy Colors	July 2009 Summer colors	August 2009 Purple, Green, Copper and a splash of Red

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