Shala loves making things

Progress

Project Progress
Bag of Holding
65%

Interesting Places

Links and Stuff
Shala's Beadwork My page,beadwork, printables, graphics tutorials
Beadwork at BellaOnline.Com
Check it out.
Blue Bonsai
Perfectly roasted coffee.
Laura's Body and Soul
Where I feed my scent addiction
Project Gutenberg
A collection of public domain books
SurLaLune Fairy Tales
Art and fairy tales
Violet Bead
Pam Welborn's bead page
Craftster
You know all about Crafter already I hope.
Crochet Pattern Central
Frequently updated crochet links
JBox.com
Wonderful bento items.
Add me to your Google homepage.

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In this journal

In This Journal
Bath stuff
about my favorite bath products and tips for healthy alternatives to commercial products
Beads
Bead patterns, ideas and pictures
Cooking
Recipes and questions
Crochet
Crochet patterns, ideas and pictures
Duct Tape
Duct tape crafts and goodness
Paper stuff
Origami, printables
101 Things
101 things to do with cereal boxes or plastic bags. Lists in progress
Versus
Taken from Bosco's
My complete tag list

Glossary

Shala's Glossary
hiih
What I've been saying instead of hello since 2400 baud modems
hygolical flips
Those annoying bits of moodiness without cause or reason when it seems like everything is just one key off.
schmoda
What you treat the hygolical flips with, anything made with icecream that you have to go out for
HT
Hot Topic, the place I buy clothes for my 58 yo dad, and my 33 yo brother feels like he's too old for
HK
Hello Kitty
Hell
Old Navy, Mike said once Old Navy is Hell and all the demons wear headsets. The term stuck.
turnips
my answer to everything when I'm tired. The word turnip just amuses me
And just turnip means E. She says she's my turnip girl.
buglies
uh.. nevermind. I'm not gonna define this one after all.
Snugglelump
a particularly annoying pet name I use for Mike. I love watching him flinch
Naet
Not as evil twin, currently up for debate. She's sneaky evil and probably would call someone snugglelump to see them flinch.
Sugarbutt
see snugglelump. A twice as annoying pet name I have for Mike. Yes. I spend time thinking these up.
Lone Wolf
An aggressively unique individual who is full of angst and misunderstood. Probably not helped by me laughing at them.
IMNEVHO
In my not even vaguely humble opinion
Comic Book Day
Every Wednesday new titles get released. We get comics every Wednesday.
ahblahbleam
When you trip over your words and just can't say it right.
"And that I ahblahbleam.. ah. you know.."
dead people's bellybuttons
what my dad calls mushrooms.
dirty socks potato chips
BBQ chips
glifflestopphen
rubbing the top of a kid's head with your knuckles and messing up their hair.
"I gotta get some of the glifflestopphen!" *messing up kid's hair while kid squeals*
farfalonous
Sickness, generally flu like symptoms or feeling just icky.
"Can you get me some soup, I have the farfalonous."

04 June 2008 @ 11:55 am

Some patterns

( Some beadwork patterns )

As always.. will trade beadwork for lots of things. :) Make me an offer. I love barter!

Tags: bead patterns, beadwork, pattern

Feeling:

amused

Current Music: Emotion- Samantha Sang

Caffeinate me

30 April 2008 @ 06:53 pm

Bead patterns

This is a collection of the bead patterns I put did based on comic books I love, I'm posting it here so I can find it quickly.
( yeah.. I'm geekiest beader ever )
I've been sick all week. I'm sort of tired of it now.
I made an Invincibility Star necklace I need to get a picture of soon.

Tags: bead patterns, beads, comic bead patterns, comics, pattern

Feeling:

sick

1 cup of coffee | Caffeinate me

10 April 2008 @ 10:40 am

YAY!

My first e-book is up for sale now! It's got the original patterns from my knotwork patterns plus 6 more bracelet patterns.
I'm excited and hoping for the best. The best being, over the next couple of months, making enough to buy Mike the Foamy dvds he doesn't have yet for his birthday.

Need help from the TCG type people out there.. what are the dimensions of a deck and which game do you play? I'd like to make some printable boxes, including one with Mel's "stained glass" moon design for my son, they will be posted on my printables site too, but I need the dimensions, and if possible, any design considerations you think are necessary. Personally, I'm thinking a lidded box like a gift box, but I'm just not sure.

TIA!

Tags: bead patterns, beading, bellaonline, ccgs, printables

Feeling:

amused

Caffeinate me

07 March 2008 @ 08:17 pm

Sometimes..

Today I spent the day graphing out knotwork bracelets, and after I finished 4 different designs, I thought "Why not a dragonfly?"

And that was it, for the rest of the day. It took something like 6 hours to get graphed just right for me. Of course, I'm NEVER going to make it. It's 110 beads long and 90 beads wide, in either flat peyote or brick stitch.
( wanna sneak peek before I post it with the bracelets? )

E and I walked up to the grocery store today, it's just a bit shy of 2 miles, and a friend saw us walking and offered us a ride, he looked at me like I'd grown another head when I said "No, we're just enjoying the weather and the walk." It's 35 degrees today! Positively summery!

Tags: bead patterns, beads, patterns

Feeling:

accomplished

Current Music: Interplanet Janet- Man or Astro-Man?

3 cups of coffee | Caffeinate me

01 April 2007 @ 04:26 am

It's finished...

My Wonder Woman bracelet I mean. Figuring out the clasp was the hard part, but I finally did something I liked.
I think I may wind up doing a few pieces based on strong female role models, and I think I had a pretty good idea for the next one.
( pattern behind cut )
Of course, anyone else who wants to make up that pattern can. I hope you like it.

Tags: bead patterns, beading, beads, patterns

Feeling:

Inspired!!!