A Contest Win

I'm very new to blogging so please bear with me. I've been meaning to start a blog for about 2 years now but I kept coming up with excuses. "I like my privacy", "no one will read it", I'm not entertaining enough, I can't post every day etc.  the list goes on and on. I told myself this morning "no more excuses" So Here I am.

I'm a lover of all things crafty and am very passionate about making beautiful things. Some of my earliest memories are cutting construction paper, covering coffee cans, and taking arts and craft classes.
 I would absolutely love to make a full time living doing something with arts and crafts or working with my hands. I do have my days when I wish my passion was Neuroscience or something more desirable. Lets face it being an artist likely wont bring in tons of money but everyone can have a dream right?

I figured keeping up with a blog will help motivate me to push myself further. A website, possibly a book someday with patterns or crafty ideas. Lets see if it works!

Ok on to the fun stuff I recently won a beading contest - The Baltimore bead society Challenge. We purchased a really funky kit of random beads chain etc. and were required to use 80% of it. Let me tell you this was not easy. There were some ugly beads in this thing. Not the best photo but here what was in it:

I spent the entire month of August trying to figure it out. After many many hours, working with different types of flowers and stitches, a lot of help from my beading friends at my favorite store Bead Soup in  Savage MD. I came up with this:

  
 Thanks to Kathy for the wonderful Photo!

This was by far the biggest challenge I've ever done, and it wasn't easy!! It's helped me to realize "  Hey I think I can do this"!!  Here's to more to come!