Bead Journal Project…September’s Harvest Moon
October 26, 2007 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Home & Living
Harvest Moon
At last! The warm browns and golds that I love so much! I spent the month of October reflecting on the month that had just passed and creating Harvest Moon. I think I’m going to have a very hard time with the moon for October, which I’ll start the first week or so of November. It will be the Hunter’s Moon. It’s not that I have anything against hunting, having grown up in a school district that took the first day of deer season off without any sense of irony. It’s just that there isn’t really any hunting symbolism that really appeals to me to bead. Oh well, hopefully I’ll think of something, or else I’ll just make it an abstract.
You can find links to more of the Bead Journal Project’s participants on Robin Atkin’s blog.
You can also click on “Bead Journal Project” under “categories” in the right-hand sidebar (of my blog, that is!) to see the past three months’ beaded journal pages.
What a yummy piece, starting with the fabric and all that you added to make it a real harvest moon!
Thank you, Robin
Hey Cyndi – I’ve been enjoying everyone’s beautiful beadwork on this site and yours is just gorgeous. Re: hunting symbolism – I always think of the cave drawings and various petroglyphs – that’s about the only hunting I go for except maybe hunting for new beads! Keep up the great work!
I love your moons. As the Autumn equinox falls on or around my birthday, I am especially drawn to the Harvest moon.
I expect that you know the Hunter’s moon is also known as the blood or sanguine moon. Maybe those alternative names will offer you some inspiration.
What ever you decide upon, I look forward to seeing your next moon.
CA
Thank you so much for the suggestions, both of you! I’m leaning towards doing a foot-print sort of pattern for it…at least right now LOL!!
Always look forward to seeing what you will do with each moon — these colors are outstanding.
Perhaps you could think of the Hunter’s Moon in terms of animals who hunt . . .
There you go! That’s it exactly…the footprints of a hunter who doesn’t happen to be human. Thanks!
This is another nice page. The colors are rich and remind me of plowed up fields rich and brown before the snows cover them.
I was thinking of Diana the huntress when you mentioned the hunter moon but those animal footprints sound mighty good.
That is lucious!