How I Create A Design, Mirrix Looms Creation (working), Black Friday eMag 2016 – The Bloggerama Mamas and Annual Gift Guide Ads

Yesterday I told you a little about how I run my business, today I’ll tell you a little bit about how I do my creations!!  First thing is to try to find a design.  Some of them I actually create on my own, but most of them are inspired by photos/art I find.  Then I design the pattern using a program called BeadTool (I’ve been using this program for years). I often joke about it, but the truth is that I had to start using a computer when I ripped through the graph paper to many times making changes to my patterns!!  Next thing I do is print the pattern out (the word chart) and then start using the pattern to ‘pull rows’.   Here is what the word chart looks like and here is a sample of the rows of beads……

Row 70 (R)  (5)1, (2)2, (5)3, (2)1, (9)3, (2)1, (4)3, (3)1, (4)3, (1)1, (4)3, (1)1, (6)3, (2)1, (5)3, (2)1, (6)3, (1)1, (8)3, (3)1, (9)3, (3)1, (6)3, (5)1

Row 71 (R)  (5)1, (2)2, (5)3, (3)1, (9)3, (2)1, (6)3, (2)1, (2)3, (1)1, (5)3, (2)1, (3)3, (2)1, (1)3, (1)1, (4)3, (1)1, (7)3, (1)1, (7)3, (4)1, (8)3, (3)1, (7)3, (5)1

Row 72 (R)  (5)1, (2)2, (5)3, (4)1, (8)3, (2)1, (7)3, (4)1, (6)3, (3)1, (1)3, (1)1, (2)3, (2)1, (2)3, (1)1, (8)3, (1)1, (5)3, (5)1, (8)3, (2)1, (9)3, (5)1

Row 73 (R)  (5)1, (2)2, (5)3, (7)1, (6)3, (1)1, (9)3, (2)1, (7)3, (4)1, (4)3, (3)1, (8)3, (1)1, (2)3, (2)1, (5)3, (1)1, (4)3, (7)1, (8)3, (5)1

Row 74 (R)  (5)1, (2)2, (5)3, (1)1, (5)3, (4)1, (3)3, (1)1, (10)3, (1)1, (8)3, (2)1, (6)3, (1)1, (8)3, (4)1, (7)3, (1)1, (2)3, (2)1, (6)3, (3)1, (6)3, (5)1

Row 75 (R)  (5)1, (2)2, (5)3, (1)1, (7)3, (8)1, (8)3, (2)1, (7)3, (2)1, (6)3, (1)1, (7)3, (4)1, (8)3, (3)1, (9)3, (3)1, (5)3, (5)1

When I bead on a loom the next step is to thread each row onto the needle and then ‘pop’ them onto the warp thread and thread the needle back through them.  This makes the beads have a thread on the front and back of each warp thread….in other words – woven in!! For this design each row has 98 beads, so above there are 490 beads to thread on!!  Here is what it looks like from last night!  Remember that you can check out my Facebook Fan Page, Google+ Page, or my Instagram Page throughout the day to watch updates and working photos.

I thought I would show off some ‘other’ black and white creations that I have in my shop – right now!!

Have you seen it yet??

I am so excited!!

The new emag from Black Friday eMag 2016 – The Bloggerama Mamas !!!

There are some great recipes in the emag and just look who is on the back page…and there is a coupon code too!! 🙂

Have you purchased your advertising yet?  Now is the time to grab your add and get your creations ‘out there’!!!  This will be the 4th annual. Last year I had it on a separate site, but they closed. I had over 18K views before it was closed. I know have last years on YouTube if you want to look at it. https://youtu.be/A2mDb5r13Ao I will be putting it out on ALL my social media sites and the people that advertise in it also put it out (usually) on their sites too! I hope to have everything collected and have it out on/before Nov 28. In order to do this I’ll need the funds and ad copy by 11/25. I can design the ad for you, however there will be an additional charge for that. THANK YOU and let me know if you would like me to send you an invoice!

Today I would like to leave you with this thought;

Cherish the gifts of friendship and love!