Results: What is your darth beading name?
October 3, 2008 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Beading, Mixed Media, Other Bead & Jewelry Sites, Question of the Month, Wearable Art
Beyond Necklace by Phaedra Torres
Phaedra write:
My darth name is Junky McDarth (cuz i collect lots of junk for my jewelry)
Cyndi, just for us really ignorant (or perhaps ‘out-of-touch’) would be closer to the truth for this Middle Aged Italian-American,but, please, what the heck are you talking about?
LOL
Star Wars!
“Darth” is the title of a darkside being called a Sith. Like “King” So-and-So, except it’s “Darth” So-and-So. They are into power, and learning to control “the force” for their own ends. I figured there was something a little controlling and greedy about most of us who work with beads and jewelry…in a jokey sort of way, of course. We are all really the nicest people!
Well, I asked hubby and he said my name would be Darth Hoarder, when it comes to the beads themselves, and Darth Creator, because he is always amazed at what I can do with them. Isn’t he sweet?
What a wonderful man, Heather! Send me a picture of one of your creations and I’ll post it along with your link
ohhhh (long,drawn out ‘oh’, at that.)
Ouch. (Use the force, Luke.) I always wanted to meet Yoda – I wonder if he would teach me to wield my beading needle more efficiently, though I refuse to close my eyes with #15 in my hand.
“I trust the force I just don’t want another battle wound, master!”
I agree that silence & calm helps me know the right place to place the bead – the light from the dark, contrast, beauty enhanced with each bead placed its proper place.
Darth-hoarder is already taken.
I’ll serve the light and call myself Lady Oba di Perline. (at your service, bowing politely!)
— special note : I am desperate for Christmas gifts and inspired to give plenty of beaded things this year… cheap to mail, pretty to the eye, etc. I have waited way too long to get started,though – anyone else making Christmas gifts at this time???
Love you all. back to work.
LOLOL!! That would take some major trust in the force to use that #15 blindfolded!!
Love the name you picked
As for Christmas gifts, I guess we’ve got to get started on pulling together some fast and easy projects for the holidays here pretty soon!
I’m thinking the same thing – some bracelets, a few pendent pieces, some simple multiple strand pieces my friends can wear even to work, I’m going make an amulet bag for one — nothing audacious, just pretty and simple. I’ve been looking through magazines and books, even getting books out of the library – need inspiration, Cyndi, been away from my beading table way too long.
I’m suffering with my right shoulder & I’m experimenting with different wraps and things to see if the pain will diminish some, realized recently it was the low-level pain that was dampening my enthusiasm for craft work.
(Those old battle wounds are annoying, aren’t they? ) LOL
I tend to ignore pain until it knocks me over and stands on me. ‘What pain? I don’t feel any stinking pain!’ LOL
Thanks Cyndi,
I’ve sent you an email with a photo attached with a recently completed project.
Well!!! I also thought that my name should be darth horder but seeing as how it was already taken I would have to say darth Cuss a LOT seeing as how my husband gets upset when I am setting there quietly beading and all of a sudden a wave of profanity erupts from the depths of my being. Becase I made a mistake and have to start all over again on what I am trying to make. Well I am very clumsy and have a hard time making jewelry but I keep thinking one of these days if I persist I will be able to do it with ease.
Oh, that’s a GREAT one, Sue
You should send me a picture, and I’ll put it in a post of its own 
Darth cuss???? LOL
I still haven’t gotten beyond ‘darn’ and ’shoot’ and the immortal ‘fiddlesticks’ !
Speaking of mistakes I am finally learning how to deal with less than perfect results and my creative life is getting real, real interesting. Does anyone else here have problems with perfectionism?
Oh no, none of the rest of us have *any* problem at all with being perfectionists…LOLOLOL!! Ok, well, yeah…most of the time I do have that problem actually. It’s really hard to settle for “good enough” sometimes.
I’ve been struggling with perfectionism since I was a child without realizing it.. been creative since just about birth – I used to play with my mother’s beads & threads at 4 years old. (Drove her nuts!)
I realized I wasn’t creating anything and really finishing it the last few years. Nothing seemed ‘good enough’ couldn’t even turn the heel of a sock without hesitating – One day, I just decided to ‘let go’ /release my perfectionism. Cyndi, I am writing, knitting, beading – just enjoying my creativity for the first time in a long time!
I think it is because it is nearly impossible to make anything look/sound/feel as great in the physical world it does in my imagination, that and I am never skillful as I would wish to be – always more creative worlds to conquer, right?
“Wars do not make one great.” LOL
Turning heels hasn’t got any easier, though. (:
Don’t misunderstand me, because I really am pretty much of a perfectionist in many areas of my life, BUT…I have decided that anything worth trying is worth doing poorly. As long as I enjoy it. Maybe as long as I am getting better at it, but maybe not. Maybe just as long as I am enjoying the process. What do you think?
Cindi, I do think you are right, it is worth doing poorly even so, because even if you don’t like the ultimate finished product, there are so many differing opinions on what beauty is and what is not, that someone out there is bound to like it. Others to hate it. I have a brother who is a magnificent artist, who once told me that art is never perfect because it is man made. I have always thought about what he said and thought it made so much sence, but thought it never applied to me because I couldn’t do anything right, (I thought,) but now that I am getting old and have the time for hobbies, the more I do try new things it astounds me that it does get easier and easier. Of course my husband would say that I am full of it. Because I still do have fits of profanity spewing forth, but I believe there are fewer and fewer occurances.
Where there is life, there is hope!! Right, Sue?
Touch’e” All is well.
In the new year I am planning to learn tapestry weaving – something which as has fascinated me for decades (I am obsessed with weaving but thought it beyond my skills, and the physical limits of a small house for years.) — writing is one of my hobbies. I was trying to describe a tapestry last week and found that I needed more technical vocabulary but also understanding of how tapestry is done. I need to do it ‘get my hands dirty’ –what I will do won’t be the Unicorn tapestries at the Cloisters Museum in NYC (please go to my website or the Museum website if these are unfamiliar!) – and I can’t expect myself to ever be that good – I’d need to concentrate on weaving a lifetime to master it. But the experience will be priceless.
I think you are ‘right on’ Cyndi – must do it badly before you master it, MUST accept your first attempts will be pretty pathetic and from time to time even after many years the sauce burns, dear lady, no matter how many years you’ve been cooking.
(I tend to want to try everything that has thread involved and spread myself too thin, anyway!) It took me 20 years to get past the Tatting barrier and I have several large bags of half done motifs to prove it!
I would suggest one of the meanest things in our language is the line”Well, IT is JUST HANDMADE!” So the stuff coming from China is perfect?- The stupidest line is “How long did it take you to make THAT?” LOL
AS Cyndi said “BUT… I have decided that anything worth trying is worth doing poorly” — just get the hands moving, some will be great, some awful, some you will pull out, some you will brag about !
No one is going to see half the mistakes you see, anyway! (:
I create because I am a creator, perfection is for God/gods, goddesses, the ONE or what ever you believe in that is bigger than yourself.