Bead Journal Project: March
March 28, 2009 by Cyndi Lavin
Filed under Bead Embroidery, Bead Journal Project, Beading, Fiber & Beads, Mixed Media, Non-Wearables
Each month, I’m choosing a fragment of scripture from one of the Psalms and using a heart shape to create a little 4 x 4 inch beaded piece that illustrates the feeling of that verse for me. Here is my piece for March:
Psalm 27:4
One thing I ask…that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
There’s always room for more. Always.
My previous pieces for the Bead Journal Project
Information about the Bead Journal Project
Bead Journal Project blog
Why is there one bead outside the heart? Is that the questioner not in the house (heart) of the Lord?
I think it’s really more that he doesn’t yet *know* he’s in God’s heart…but I couldn’t think of any clever way to symbolize that!
I was also thinking about the loneliness that we all feel sometimes. This piece may not be theologically completely accurate, but it accurately reflects my feelings of sometimes being on the outside looking in, and longing to be there.
I think it does it well – I got the idea.
(Weird that my picture is displaying from my website. I don’t recall getting a gravitar)
And here I was wondering how you did that, and also wondering if I should get one!!
Cyndi, I just discovered your blog, and your moon journal project from last year.
I wrote a full-moon poem every month last year. Your journals are so wonderful, and brought that exercise back to me. If you are interested, you can find my poems in the category “Moon Poems” at Watermark.
If I had found you sooner, I would have asked your permission to post photos of your work with my poems, or at least linked to each one, each month.
Such gorgeous work!
Oh how wonderful! I’m going to go and read your poems now…I found the full moons to be such an inspirational way to look at the year. You probably chose a few different names for some of the months than I did, since there are several to chose from in most cases
Cyndi — Are you on Twitter? I’d like to follow you if so (couldn’t find you with a search) — I’m @bookmarkand, sbpoet.
No, ‘fraid not…facebook though
Cyndi, I have been running in circles trying to figure out how to get your feed to my new email account. The old one was the feed from your LayersUponLayers, but that is no longer. can you help? I don’t want to miss anything! Love your blogs.
Hi Andie! I’m sorry about that…Layers Upon Layers doesn’t exist anymore
With Blisstree, which is the portal that all of the “lifestyle” posts are going to, it appears you have to subscribe to the feed for the entire portal: http://www.blisstree.com/feed/ I’ll try to find out if there’s any way to refine this so that you’re getting posts only from a particular section, but I don’t see how right at the moment.
My personal Mixed Media Artist blog feed is http://www.mixed-media-artist.com/feeds/posts/default and I’m still writing Jewelry&Beading, which has this feed address: http://www.jewelryandbeading.com/feed/