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sparticle · 03-26-2004, 04:15 AM

stuff i make

...and other stuff.

chuckie egg · 03-26-2004, 10:54 AM

Wow!! I love them, you need to talk to Lapietra, she also makes jewellery

... and welcome, by the way!

sparticle · 03-26-2004, 10:59 AM

Thanks! I did -- Lapietra sent me a very nice welcoming message! I'm just so happy to find ze.com. It's becoming a real "home" for me online.

It all started with somebody sending me the "Impress Your Date" URL. I looked up the root URL, got hooked on "Build Your Own Kaleidoscope", decided that any guy who builds interactive kaleidoscopes probably runs a cool mesage board and found out I was right! So here I am.

Thanks for the kind words!

chuckie egg · 03-26-2004, 11:03 AM

WOO! haha, I found this place through the "when office supplies attack" competition, not such a nice story... ah well!

sparticle · 03-26-2004, 11:09 AM

LOL!

Like most cool stuff/friends/sites I've ever found, finding this place was a little exercise in "diligent serendipity" -- I had a hunch just from the crazy video that there had to be more funny/cool/smart stuff where that came from, hunted down the root URL, and lo and behold! an arts-oriented community!

You can find such cool stuff by doing a little secret agent work.

ambo · 03-30-2004, 04:00 AM

oh sparticle, those are lovely
i need to learn to work with wire !

i like weaving with seed beads myself

and right now, i'm into beaded beads

sparticle · 03-30-2004, 04:06 AM

Now, seed beads are something for which I so much wish I had the patience. They are so beautiful woven into patterns. Thanks for sharing those pieces; they're gorgeous. My eyes won't always let me do close work, either; 4mm beads are about the smallest I generally use. I have severe astigmatism and sometimes even trifocals won't let me focus as closely as I need to. Or the work looks great two inches from my nose and loses something in the translation.

Very nice work; thanks so much for showing it!

Are those tiny tigereye rounds in with the seed beads on the first piece?

ambo · 03-30-2004, 04:13 AM

thank you thank you thank you

i believe those are picture jasper - that was a particularly difficult piece (3 layers) - and i broke 3 freakin needles doing it !
every time i wear it, people ask if i sell - i just laugh

my eyes are getting worse and worse
usually when i work with seed beads, i don't even use my corrective lenses and the work is six inches from my face

next, i am going to be doing beadpoint, with 15 o's - yikes !!!!

sparticle · 03-30-2004, 04:23 AM

15-0's! My God; you're brave!

I have a few pieces like your jasper necklace that I wouldn't sell unless I absolutely couldn't afford not to. After all that work, to sell it to a stranger? heh heh I've been warned I'll never make any money that way, but this isn't all about money.

And sometimes it works in my favor. Somebody will see something I don't want to part with and say, "How much?" and I will throw out some insane times-ten figure and the person will say: "That's fine. Can you make two?"

But more often, it just lets me hang on to my favorites without feeling too bad when they do find new homes.

Audreyvgs · 03-30-2004, 12:08 PM

I went to a flea market in NYC and found like 40 strings of multicolored, multi patterned seed beads, they said they were like 80 yrs old...and I brought em home, took em out of the bag, freakin loved the colors, they are so tiny! Then I put em back in the bag, having absolutely no idea what to do with them. I have absolutely no desire to make anything with em, I just love all those colors! Besides, whatever I did would look like an indian bead thing, and I don't even wear jewelry. But god i love those beads!!!!

Well, maybe if I had a year, I could re-string all 40 and make the world's largest necklace..it would be impressive!

sparticle · 03-30-2004, 12:18 PM

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Originally posted by Audreyvgs
Besides, whatever I did would look like an indian bead thing, and I don't even wear jewelry. But god i love those beads!!!!

Heh heh heh heh....

I have probably fifty pounds of brightly colored glass beads -- Czech, German, Japanese, Italian, Indian, African -- boxes and boxes and boxes of them -- and I have no idea what in God's name I will ever do with them. I work primarily with Swarovski crystal and semiprecious stones, but I absolutely love the way those beads look and feel in my hands. And I keep buying more! Sometimes I think the jewelry business is just a front for my glass bead addiction.

I have been building a little kinetic mobile out of copper wire and glass beads -- I don't know if I could ever sell it but it's fun to play with.

The world's longest bead necklace --- now THERE's an idea. We could string it from my house to yours!

ambo · 03-30-2004, 03:25 PM

well one can never have too many beads
it's a never ending tale of conquest
i buy beads, then go to string them, and nothing else i have is just right
so i buy more beads to go with the beads i have
and while i'm there......

you know how it goes

as far as selling goes, i just won't
tried that with my digital art and it suck'd the life out of me

my beading is either just for me, or it's a gift !

sparticle · 03-30-2004, 03:31 PM

Sometimes i wish I could do it that way -- just make what I like and never mind the rest. Unfortunately, I have a bead habit to support.

Really, it's more fun just playing, though. Some of my favorite pieces are probably never, ever going to sell:

but they are such fun to make and play with!

ambo · 03-30-2004, 03:33 PM

those would SO sell !

sparticle · 03-30-2004, 03:37 PM

I think it's a tactile thing. They've been on the website for months and nothing, but i'll bet if I try them at a show this fall they'll sell. They're "prettier in person".

For awhile I focussed more heavily on selling my stuff on Ebay, but I'm discovering that there's a preponderance of people who want stuff like 14K gold earrings for a dollar and not as many fans of eclectic design.

I try not to pigeonhole people, but there you are. FleaBay is just not the venue for my more "out there" work.

03-26-2004, 04:15 AM	#1
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03-30-2004, 04:00 AM	#6
ambo feline, naturally Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,407	oh sparticle, those are lovely i need to learn to work with wire ! i like weaving with seed beads myself and right now, i'm into beaded beads __________________ Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we have not stopped to include violence as an option in our conflict management, we are still savages. --Thomas A. Edison

03-30-2004, 04:13 AM	#8
ambo feline, naturally Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,407	thank you thank you thank you i believe those are picture jasper - that was a particularly difficult piece (3 layers) - and i broke 3 freakin needles doing it ! every time i wear it, people ask if i sell - i just laugh my eyes are getting worse and worse usually when i work with seed beads, i don't even use my corrective lenses and the work is six inches from my face next, i am going to be doing beadpoint, with 15 o's - yikes !!!! __________________ Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we have not stopped to include violence as an option in our conflict management, we are still savages. --Thomas A. Edison

03-30-2004, 03:25 PM	#12
ambo feline, naturally Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,407	well one can never have too many beads it's a never ending tale of conquest i buy beads, then go to string them, and nothing else i have is just right so i buy more beads to go with the beads i have and while i'm there...... you know how it goes as far as selling goes, i just won't tried that with my digital art and it suck'd the life out of me my beading is either just for me, or it's a gift ! __________________ Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we have not stopped to include violence as an option in our conflict management, we are still savages. --Thomas A. Edison

03-30-2004, 03:33 PM	#14
ambo feline, naturally Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: California Posts: 4,407	those would SO sell ! __________________ Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we have not stopped to include violence as an option in our conflict management, we are still savages. --Thomas A. Edison

03-26-2004, 10:54 AM	#2
chuckie egg a peach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 4,627	Wow!! I love them, you need to talk to Lapietra, she also makes jewellery ... and welcome, by the way!

03-26-2004, 10:59 AM	#3
sparticle Conspiracy Theorist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cleveland, oh Posts: 4,702	Thanks! I did -- Lapietra sent me a very nice welcoming message! I'm just so happy to find ze.com. It's becoming a real "home" for me online. It all started with somebody sending me the "Impress Your Date" URL. I looked up the root URL, got hooked on "Build Your Own Kaleidoscope", decided that any guy who builds interactive kaleidoscopes probably runs a cool mesage board and found out I was right! So here I am. Thanks for the kind words!

03-26-2004, 11:03 AM	#4
chuckie egg a peach Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 4,627	WOO! haha, I found this place through the "when office supplies attack" competition, not such a nice story... ah well!

03-26-2004, 11:09 AM	#5
sparticle Conspiracy Theorist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cleveland, oh Posts: 4,702	LOL! Like most cool stuff/friends/sites I've ever found, finding this place was a little exercise in "diligent serendipity" -- I had a hunch just from the crazy video that there had to be more funny/cool/smart stuff where that came from, hunted down the root URL, and lo and behold! an arts-oriented community! You can find such cool stuff by doing a little secret agent work.

03-30-2004, 04:06 AM	#7
sparticle Conspiracy Theorist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cleveland, oh Posts: 4,702	Now, seed beads are something for which I so much wish I had the patience. They are so beautiful woven into patterns. Thanks for sharing those pieces; they're gorgeous. My eyes won't always let me do close work, either; 4mm beads are about the smallest I generally use. I have severe astigmatism and sometimes even trifocals won't let me focus as closely as I need to. Or the work looks great two inches from my nose and loses something in the translation. Very nice work; thanks so much for showing it! Are those tiny tigereye rounds in with the seed beads on the first piece?

03-30-2004, 04:23 AM	#9
sparticle Conspiracy Theorist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cleveland, oh Posts: 4,702	15-0's! My God; you're brave! I have a few pieces like your jasper necklace that I wouldn't sell unless I absolutely couldn't afford not to. After all that work, to sell it to a stranger? heh heh I've been warned I'll never make any money that way, but this isn't all about money. And sometimes it works in my favor. Somebody will see something I don't want to part with and say, "How much?" and I will throw out some insane times-ten figure and the person will say: "That's fine. Can you make two?" But more often, it just lets me hang on to my favorites without feeling too bad when they do find new homes.

03-30-2004, 12:08 PM	#10
Audreyvgs Blue's Clues Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: on Yur Last Nerve, huh? Posts: 5,412	I went to a flea market in NYC and found like 40 strings of multicolored, multi patterned seed beads, they said they were like 80 yrs old...and I brought em home, took em out of the bag, freakin loved the colors, they are so tiny! Then I put em back in the bag, having absolutely no idea what to do with them. I have absolutely no desire to make anything with em, I just love all those colors! Besides, whatever I did would look like an indian bead thing, and I don't even wear jewelry. But god i love those beads!!!! Well, maybe if I had a year, I could re-string all 40 and make the world's largest necklace..it would be impressive!

03-30-2004, 03:31 PM	#13
sparticle Conspiracy Theorist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cleveland, oh Posts: 4,702	Sometimes i wish I could do it that way -- just make what I like and never mind the rest. Unfortunately, I have a bead habit to support. Really, it's more fun just playing, though. Some of my favorite pieces are probably never, ever going to sell: but they are such fun to make and play with!

03-30-2004, 03:37 PM	#15
sparticle Conspiracy Theorist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: cleveland, oh Posts: 4,702	I think it's a tactile thing. They've been on the website for months and nothing, but i'll bet if I try them at a show this fall they'll sell. They're "prettier in person". For awhile I focussed more heavily on selling my stuff on Ebay, but I'm discovering that there's a preponderance of people who want stuff like 14K gold earrings for a dollar and not as many fans of eclectic design. I try not to pigeonhole people, but there you are. FleaBay is just not the venue for my more "out there" work.

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stuff i make ...and other stuff.

stuff i make

...and other stuff.