Should have mentioned that these are not my work. They are made by one of my favorite beading families and we have always bought from them at Pow Wow. This is the way they support their family, so I try to pick something up and my older daughters all love the dad''s bracelettes. I think it's the parents. 8 kids and 10 grandkids or opposite on those 2 numbers. I do make these too though. And I sell more of the corns, pigs and frogs than anything else. I bought a few other things from them, but those were for the little girls to get Vanessa for Mother's Day. She always asks why I don't just make her something myself, but Bill liked this guy and they'd talk during lulls in the day, so I just feel like I need to keep that up. Plus I have made her some things and had her help with them, so not like I do nothing at all, but I haven't really done much of anything in almost 2 years.
Sunny, I'll be sending these out today. I had them all bagged up and sitting by my laptop. I figured if I didn't get to the PO before I left I could send them while I was gone and I forgot all about them. I hope you can use the extra things I added. Really disappointed they didn't have any of these things at the Pow Wow, cause I'd add more.
BTW, Karen is a talented person and does so many things. You need to see some of her work. When I first saw Karen I knew I'd recognize her forever, because she reminded me of my aunt and that woman was extremely talented, so she reminds me of her even more.
I have 2 bustles to make for a dancer. I can't wait to get a pic when he's in full ragalia. He's 10 and has won several Fancy Dance competitions. I've been hard headed for years and most of my beads are size #15 and #16. I had to have everything soooooo intricate, but between my eyes and hands I get frustrated and it wasn't as soothing and theraputic as it used to be. More like work, so I'm breaking down and using size #11 and #12s and hoping I feel as good about doing this as I used to. I also have a flute, 2 staffs and some drum sticks to do. I picked out all of my beads while I was there and the vendor I use saves all the lots of each color for me. Then I pay for some and they send them to me. Problem is getting everything paid for and here before I can start. I also have 3 Jingle dresses, a Fancy Shawl dress and 25 shawls to make. I think I got to far over my head, but if so I have a couple of people who I used to contract work for my company that I know can take up the slack and can always use the money.
When I first met Bill I would go to the places that used to be in the Bay Area and buy hanks of one to five colors and take them home and put them away. He told everyone that I bought all this stuff to make things out of but I never made anything. Then I pulled out all my colors one day and made a belt and some hair pieces that were ordered and made up a bunch of extra earrings. He grabbed a frame of earrings and took them to a friend's house to show her, because she also beaded and he came home with money and no earrings. LOL Every hospital he worked at has employees that either own my beadwork or silver work, so he was a great salesman and promoter for me. I haven't made anything since he died, but he had sold almost everything I had made over about 3 months, just going to work and I had a lot of things made. All that stuff was what I was supposed to be taking to a craft fair the summer he died.
One of the reasons I want more land and turkeys is because we use a lot of turkey feathers for regalia and I think it would be nice to not have to buy them.
I lost another doe this morning. I was gone for 3 days and paranoid that something would happen while I was gone and everything was fine when I got home. Went out this morning and found her dead in her cage. Her water bottle was 1/2 full and she had 2 fed cups in there and one was full and the other 1/2 full. There was just a little hay in the holder, but it wasn't gone. I don't know what happened.
I had 2 chicks hatched on friday before I left and nothing else by the time I got home. Then I got a few yesterday. I got a Phoenix to hatch! It hangs out with the lone quial chick and they almost look like they belong together. LOL OK I need to find my sink. Gone all weekend and bought a pizza last night and my sink looks like I fed a family of 30!
things like these.
