I know the new banners and graphics are going to be worth waiting for. I just know it. For now, and since I’m unsure exactly what they’ll look like, I’ve just continued tinkering with the blog and other sites. Plans at this point call for re-opening Atelier-Beads and the new Adornments site when the new graphics arrive.
It’s been nearly too hot to go out this week in Baltimore, with the heat wave culminating today in temperatures somewhere around 105. Fortunately, we attended the African Beads Trunk Show at Beadazzled last Sunday afternoon and came home with some wonderful treasures. I have loads of recycled glass beads from Ghana in an assortment of cooler colors including pale green, seafoam green, and the wonderful, deep cobalt blue. Some of these beads are small enough that they can be used in Catholic as well as Anglican rosaries. A couple of strands of filigree West African brass have found their way home, and as well, two strands of those wonderful heishi they make in Nigeria from old phonograph records. The day’s treasure was a whole strand of blue-green Hebron beads in the smaller size. These are growing more scarce every year, and more expensive. This may be my last strand for a while, so I’ll treasure them and share them a bit sparingly. My shopping basket was rounded out with some wonderful brass creatures–frogs, fish, lizards, and turtles–and a strand of “old” Christmas beads. Those are the nice glass ones as opposed to the seed bead ones.
I’ll be uploading a new set of rosaries to Atelier-Beads just ten minutes after those graphics arrive.
