Two Week's AGAIN!!!

Hey everybody!  Thanks for stopping by this week.  I tell ya, working 6 days a week reeks havoc on my bead addiction!  But I did work on the inchies of last week and this week.  So let's get down to it!
Last weeks inchie theme was Camel.  I am not a fan of animals that can spit at you or step on you.  But camels are kinda funny ones.  They seem to be hams for the camera, at least on TV they seem that way.

When I was about 9 I rode a camel.  It was pretty interesting.  Not something I would want to do on a daily basis.  LOL  Also this theme was the hardest one for me this year.  I really could not get the pattern right.  I like to go with my first thought on a theme, because usually it is the best one I can come up with.  BUT, this time was not the case.  I wanted to do a camel up close (like he was looking into a camera) and behind him was the pyramids.  But no matter what tweaking I did it just looked like a deformed pile of poop in front of 2 triangles!  Not the best one, for sure!

So I went with something that I thought about but decided against; that is until I hated what I came up with LOL.  I decided to make a take on the Camel Cigarette Logo using just 2 colors. Here it is.

This week's theme over at EIM is Rhino.  This week I took a page from my camel (or the camel took a page from my Rhino!) and made him in silhouette.  This time though I only did the rhino's head.  Check him out.

That is it for me this week(s).  I hope to be able to make it on time next week.  Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out the great art work over there and join in the fun with us!  Have a blessed and creative week my friends!

2 Weeks At A Time!

Hey everyone,  I am so happy to have a moment to be able to post!  I have been working a lot lately and when I have not been working I have been sleeping!  When I have been awake I have been too tired to bead.  So this weekend I tried to catch up.  I had about 20 minutes to myself and my beads and I was able to catch up on my inchies.

Last week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme was Fly.  Since making a bug would just not show up like I would have wanted I decided to go with my second thought.  An airport icon!  Let's FLY!  I enjoyed making this one.

This week's theme is Buffalo!  Well, since I just had to be different I decided to think WAAAYYYY outside the box and make a peace pipe that might have been smoked by Chief Buffalo and Benjamin Armstrong.  Too bad this kinda thing wont work nowadays.

The green background makes it a bit hard to see but it is there with smoking wafting up from it.

That is it for me this week, don't forget to fly on over to EIM and check out the artwork.  Have a blessed and creative week my friends.

Happy Hippos and 4th!

Hey everyone, happy 4th of July for those of us in the US, and happy July 4th to the rest of the world!  LOL.

This week I only have 2 things to show.  This week over at Every Inchie Monday the theme is Hippo.  I love hippos, they are so cute and such a gentle giant.  But don't piss them off! They can charge at you and for sure those 2 big teeth can put a damper on anyone's day!  Anyways here is my hippo.

I really don't like that it looks like he has a rhino horn but I was afraid he would look too much like a grey dog if I did not have that.  What do you think?

Also this week over at Seedbeaders the "bead along with me challenge" is a pen and pencil cover.  I have always wanted to do a pen cover but have never sat down to do it...until now!

This is a G2 pen and it seems to be the only pen that you can do this on, since the pen clip is up enough for the beads to be under the clip without being squished.   This pattern has 5 colors in it.  Teal, brown, orange, silver and white.

The cool thing about this pen is that when the ink is gone you can either take the cover off and put it on another one.  Or, you can just replace the ink cartridge and keep going.  I have a feeling this will not be the last time I make one of these.  My brain is already working on patterns for them!  haha.

Well, that is it for me this week.  Don't forget to fly on over to EIM and 2x2x2 to check out the challenges and join on in.  Have a blessed, safe and creative week my friends