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Before 2014 I drafted, deleted, denied, forgot or just didn’t bother with many of my Wordpress blog posts. That said, this moment brings you Mary Yaeger Design, my next generation blog and ecommerce site!
Every day many things delight and inspire me. Always I want to create using all my senses, heart, mind and soul. Please enjoy what you find here: beaded and handmade objects, designs, tips, techniques, curiosities and more!
I submitted my beadwork as a featured designer for the 2024 Toho Challenge back in March. It’s called “Circular Circulation,” reflecting my love of 60’s psychedelia, paisleys and day-glo colors. Circ Circ is a wall hanging, but here it is displayed on a plexi necklace frame, so that the Toho Team wouldn’t have to mess too much with display and getting it to hang perfectly: The challenge has now moved
You will receive this tutorial when you make a donation of $5 or more to the Artist’s Emergency Fund (CERF+). This ten-page tutorial contains color illustrations and photographs. The instructions are written with the beginner in mind. The design does not require expensive supplies, only several sizes of seed beads in matching colors. Suggestions for making earrings and necklaces are included. If you bead a lot, you still will benefit
The Beaded Hands Project – A Fundraiser for Artist’s Emergency Relief In this year 2020, people everywhere are experiencing mind-boggling distress in nearly every aspect of their lives. Like most people, I have spent more time at home due to COVID social distancing, which has given me more time for reflection and art-making. Much of my work over the years has included miniature body parts, beaded and embroidered, but I
Here is the first newsletter sent by me since 2019. I’ve relaunched my etsy shop, with a new name: WeBeadBecause. You’ll find bead tutorials in digital download format for these designs: Plush Tassel Necklace Tutorial Miniduos Cuff Bracelet Tutorial Tierra Pyramid Bracelet Tutorial In addition, I have bead kits for the following items: Tierra Pyramid Bracelet in bronze/chartreuse and aurora borealis. Tierra Pyramid is a modified version of a design
In “The Stunning Astronomical Beadwork of Native Artist Margaret Nazon,” Maria Popova of Brain Pickings writes about the bead artist Margaret Nazon. Popova weaves some of her other writings about science and visionary culture into this essay about Nazon’s celestial-inspired work in beads: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/10/08/margaret-nazon-celestial-beadwork/?mc_cid=a71d28cbe3&mc_eid=071ef6cc84 Margaret Nazon’s Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/NomadDesign8/
It’s these flat tiles of color that inspired my “Tierra, Sol y Mar beadwork designs and kits.
Let it Bleed, Just Let Me Bead: I was taking a Typography class a few years back, and came up with these bead-based graphics. I don’t think I ever showed it to anyone until now. I liked the teacher and the class, but I missed having time to do bead.
Here are the colorways: original blue violet with zest, silvery sage and berries & blues: You will note that the original version shows four petals made with dragonscale beads. I’ve since added a fifth dragonscale petal for “berries & blues” and created a second style of four-petal flower made (with the new gekko beads) for “silvery sage.” You might want to view this post about petal beads on Facet Jewelry:
According to this article, success is much more difficult to deal with than failure. If you decide to read, tell me what you think. Every now and then I have my small victories and even surprise smash “hits,” but why is what to do next so daunting? https://journal.thriveglobal.com/how-to-go-from-successful-to-very-successful-and-why-most-people-cant-do-it-96e98e311b00
What do you think of the name for this design? I started out calling this design “Minnie’s Duo Cuff,” but the Bead&Button decided to help me out by listing the class as “Minnie Duos Cuff.” I was trying to make a play on words–Minnie being a woman’s name, and that there were lots of two’s in the pattern, as well as MiniDuos. But then it all sort of flattened out/got
