Teacher Appreciation

 

Last Saturday the director of my school took us all out for a big relaxing treat: First a pampering manicure and pedicure at Spa O. After that we met at Buca di Beppo - a nice family style restaurant which is the perfect location for larger groups (the small dishes serve 3 people, the large dishes the whole party!).

For this event I prepared something special to show my appreciaton to my boss and my co workers since I enjoyed every single day of working there. I made each one a necklace (haha! go figure!), same basic style but individual colors and different design.

I fancied myself with a necklace that fits my way:

Arbitrary Art

As I save my beads and material in little ziplockbags (Hello Kitty design!), I decided one night to disobay any structure and system. I mixed a few bags of "left-overs", closed my eyes, reached into the bag and stringed (is that a word?! It should be!). I have to say: I am quite impressed with the outcome and it is one of my favorites!

Back to a good idea!

After a long time of thinking how to create the PERFECT piece of jewelry and coming up with thousands of excuses why not just to sit down and bead, I finally threw all doubts and hestitation overboard and came up with something for myself which I call: An Hour of Creation  - big words, but the thought behind it is quite simple: Each day I try to sit down for an hour with my beads and strings and see what the outcome is.
The picture above shows you my very first project after over 2 years. I am very pleased with it and after my first hour of creation I was more than thrilled to go back to beading the next day.