Elemental Series Complete!!

I finally finished my Elemental Bead Embroidery Series today. :) I am very excited and will be submitting my Bead Dreams application tonight (or tomorrow at the latest, since that's the deadline)!  I really like how Earth turned out. It is so hard to get a good photo of this piece!!!

Elemental Water - Complete

Elemental Water is finally done! All I have left is Elemental Earth and the whole series will be done and ready for Bead Dreams!

Water done! On to the leaf...

Just finished the water.  I love the way this turned out!  It's my favorite so far.

Making waves... or what I did on my kids' snow days!

Well, here's what my Elemental Water panel looks like now.  I am gonna make my end-of-February deadline for sure on this panel... if I can keep this level of energy on it, I'm sure to be done in time to enter Bead Dreams.

Round and round

Steady progress on my Elemental Water panel.  My goal is to get this one done by the end of February and the final panel, Elemental Earth, done by the end of March.  Then framing and submission to Bead Dreams by the deadline on April 9.  I did about half of the circles today, so there is hope for me getting it done in time.

Bravery (or progress towards impossible goals)

Well, I decided that I want to enter my Elemental Bead Embroidery Panel Series into the Bead Dreams competition this year. I'm not sure if it's even possible, since I have almost half of it to go and the entry deadline is the beginning of April... and I'm an accountant. Not really the best time for me to plan to spend hours and hours working on this. But if I'm going to enter, this is the year to do it, so I'm going to try my hardest to get it done by then.

Wish me luck!!

Not slacking, just busy

As usual, my photography leaves much to be desired.  I used my camera phone to take this pic and it's horrible.  This is why I scan my pieces!

I haven't had much time to work on this project recently.  I am a member of the Asheville Choral Society and we had two performances of our annual Christmas concert this past weekend.  The last month has been filled with music and not much else.  Trying to catch up on sleep and figure out my marketing for next year have also been high on my list of time stealers lately.  I'll be carving out beading time on my Christmas break, though, so hopefully, the next update will have many more beads on it!