The Bead Spot

Pixabay.com It's too late to begin Thanksgiving projects for this year, but I've been looking around Pinterest for a few ideas for next year and making note of my favorites for inspiration. I'm thankful for each and every one, because they all give me ideas for my own projects. Here are just some of the ones I've found that made me smile: Beaded pilgrims on Pinterest.  These are some of the first ones I saw, and I just thought they were so adorable. Beaded pumpkin pie earrings , also on Pinterest. How clever! I think this is the first time I have ever seen pumpkin pie earrings. Turkey charms for a necklace and matching earrings. I haven't bought this pattern, so I don't know for certain that it uses double-hole Czech beads, but I think that's what it is. I love the colors of the turkey feathers and the layered looked. Turkey brooch pin . This might just be the cutest turkey I've seen today. I never think about making brooches. Perhaps I sho

Feather earrings A few months ago, I had big plans for this holiday season. I wanted to spend at least thirty minutes every night from October 1 on working on holiday-themed beaded jewelry to list on my Etsy store. Funny how I keep making plans like that then don't follow through for various reasons. Rather than make excuses for the umpteenth time, though, I am just going to try to get myself on a regular schedule for everything from time posting for this and my other blogs to making some progress on my beading plans. I plan to get a few pairs of the feather style earrings up on my Etsy shop, and then I might do some other earrings and necklaces with a holiday theme, maybe Santas or Christmas trees. Time to get to work.