The second year for the Bead Journal Project is quickly drawing to a close.  Last year, I made fairly elaborate pieces that featured the full moon for each month.  I knew that this year I would be more pressed for time, so I chose to make very simple pieces. Each month, I chose a fragment of scripture from one of the Psalms and used a heart shape to create a little 4 x 4 inch beaded piece that illustrates the feeling of that verse for me.   By the end of August, the entire project for the year should be finished…Yay!
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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 February:

Psalm 90:2
From everlasting to everlasting, You are God
There is no trouble or struggle that is as big as God.
Here are all three of my Winter pages together: December, January, and February

My previous pieces for the Bead Journal Project
Information about the Bead Journal Project
Bead Journal Project blog

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 January:

Psalm 46:10
Be still and know that I am God

No need to struggle…just let go of your self-will, and know that He is there.

My previous pieces for the Bead Journal Project
Information about the Bead Journal Project
Bead Journal Project blog

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 December:

Psalm 42:7
Deep calls to deep
 
The deepest and most satisfying relationship in my life is my spirit’s communion with my God.
 
My previous pieces for the Bead Journal Project
Information about the Bead Journal Project
Bead Journal Project blog

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 November:

Psalm 84:10
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere.
 
 
Here are all three of my Autumn pages together: September, October, and November

My previous pieces for the Bead Journal Project
Information about the Bead Journal Project
Bead Journal Project blog

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 October:

Psalm 16:11
In Your presence is fullness of joy.
 
The symbol here is joy that is so tightly coiled within that it just has to burst forth.
 
My previous pieces for the Bead Journal Project
Information about the Bead Journal Project
Bead Journal Project blog

Beaded face panel
by Cindy McCornack
Cindy McCornack was a friend and mentor to beaders, in person and online. She lived in Alaska, but had friends all over the world through the online beading community, especially the Bead Art forum. Among the things she left for for beaders was her book, Exploring Beaded Art Dolls, full of instructions, inspiration, and photographs of beaded art dolls that she and her friends created.
When Cindy was diagnosed with lung cancer, the Forum responded with flowers, gifts, support, and contributions. In thanks, Cindy began the Mystery Image Challenge. Inspired by the Mat-Su Valley Bead Society in …read more

The Bead Journal Project started up again this month, and I was ready and eager to dive right in. This year I’m making my pieces smaller. I know that last year’s postcard sized pieces weren’t really that big to begin with, but I found it sometimes challenging to keep up with it. This year, I want the pieces to be more heartfelt and less about techniques.
Huh?
Well, last year I used the full moons as my guiding theme, so each month’s pieces was based upon the name of that moon. This year, I’ve chosen hearts, but simply …read more

Technique Tuesday!

I used 12″x24″ gallery-wrapped Frederix canvases to mount my Bead Journal Pages. Each page is 6″x4″, so this left plenty of space around each.
Materials and Tools
3 gallery-wrapped canvases
Golden’s acrylic paints
Sponges
Waxed paper
Beading thread
Beading needles
Step by step instructions

April’s Grass Moon
I am finished!! The year-long project known as the Bead Journal Project is drawing to a close, and my journal pages are all completed! You can see the entire set of them on Why Not Art, my mixed media website. I decided to make April’s page lush and crowded, the way I remember spring being when I lived in the more fertile and warmer regions of Pennsylvania instead of here in New England, where I’ve been for the past twenty-some years. Spring comes earlier back home
You can find links to more of the Bead Journal Project’s …read more