Eureka!

Backstory: I've been doing my best to come up with a fantabulous design to teach at Beading by the Bay, a March 2010 retreat in San Francisco with Marcia Decoster and Maggie Meister. When I was invited to teach at this event I think I wet my pants a little. I love these two women, for one thing, and am overjoyed at the idea of hanging out with them for more than 5 minutes, which is usually the case at shows and whatnot. But they are also two major heavy-hitting teachers/designers, so I knew the pressure would be on to come up with something not only great-looking, but interesting to make. I think the pressure has caused some shrinkage in my right brain because try as I might, I've come up with squat.


Okay, so here's the front story... Emma had a 3-game fastpitch softball tournament on Sunday morning. It was 5 hours of sitting in the stands, cheering "Good eye!" and "Get a piece of it!"... I tell you, there's just nothing like salty popcorn on a Sunday morning to tide you over until Father's Day brunch.

I knew I'd have lots of waiting-around time at this softball tournament, so I found a picnic table near the fields and planted myself with my beads (yes, lots of stares from parents, and one dad who commented "Boy, you must like to stay busy!" Oh, boy, Buster, you don't know the half of it...). I think all the fresh air helped, because Eureka! I was able to come up with this really fun sculptural petal shape during Game #1 that I think I'll be able to use for my Beading by the Bay design.



So now to build the rest of this design. It's a 1-day class, so it needs to be fairly involved... Any ideas? Bracelet? Necklace? Colors?