When I work with those teeny weensy little beads, I wear my work station glasses with the high powered reading prescription
and I use the magnifier I bought at a flea market in Raleigh, NC... the best $8.00 I ever spent!
I'd rather have one of those fancy magnifiers with a light attached, but they're way more expensive than the flea market model I found last year. So, I'll make due with another light over my shoulder.
Whenever I'm in the studio, I pay attention to posture. With a chronically painful lower back, it's easy to get caught up in the work and start slouching. I can pay for that for days afterward with discomfort in every position. So, I sit straight up, feet on the floor, and take frequent breaks to stretch.
Lastly, I hook myself up to my all-important ipod. "What's on it", you ask? Click on the player in the right sidebar to get a small sample list. If Apple ever comes out with a version that's permanently implanted in the brain, I'm gonna be first in line for beta testing! I can't work without good music for company.
Yours in beads,
16 comments:
Hi there sweet Miss Kate!!
WHen I used to bead everyday for over ten years, I could tell my eyesight getting os bad. Then I just kind of stopped. and my eyesight bounced back - but if I ever take it up again, I am doing it your way! Posture and all!!
I love seeing you workspace and lovely you!!! xoxo, V
Kate I feel your pain. I am not faring any better either. Magnifying glasses are a must. But girl you look good and healthy and that's all that really counts
That's a nice picture of you! I do not know how you can work that small. The few minutes I work with seed beads I kind of get irritable and I'm generally a patient person. So I appreciate the time it takes to make your intricate work.
I feel my eyesight slipping a little from my usual 20/15. My mom said that would happen around 40 which is just a year + away. I've been thinking about getting a magnifier for when I paint my dolls faces..thanks for the reminder:)
Have a wonderfully creative week!
You look fabulous! We get AARP and I'm not sure why, I think it may have been part of our vacation club package or something, but Joe and I sit together dreaming of old age and retirement communities (read: the kids moving out).
Your beadwork captivates me, and it really looks like such a relaxing art form, I just can't get past the time and dedication it must entail. I'd have a workspace filled with incomplete projects. I'm a planner and a thinker but when the doing part starts I get bored, tired,achy angry, very quickly.
PS love the new widget-I need it!
You look lovely there amongst all your pretty beads. I wanted to let you know that the glue I settled on for the silk was Alene's Tacky Glue! I can't believe it, but this worked the best! I'm very careful not to press to hard, a light tap is all the silk need to adhere. I also apply the glue to the base with a brush and make sure it isn't to wet.
Hugs!
Nancy
thank you so much for the glimpse of you at work and the tools that you use. I'm thinking that a magnifier (of the flea market variety) ... I could use the advise of remembering my posture when creating ... time to start practicing. :)
look at cute little you sitting there working on your masterpieces! you are adorable...and i wouldn't put too much thought into the AARP thing...i heard that they've pushed the minimum age back again, so we all qualify (kinda like the senior coffee plan at mcdonald's)! i personally am looking forward to my first copy of the magazine (and hoping for the johnny-depp-dripping-in-chocolate-centerfold...you are too much!). i love your magnifier and especially love your ipod brain implant idea...i wonder if somehow we could combine the two? :)
So, THIS is how the MAGIC is created!
Healthy Posture, Plenty of Light, and Great Music on St. Patrick's Day!
Back again ;)
Happy St. Paddy's day lovely Miss Kate!!! I saved you a four leaf clover, I did I did ;) ;)
Kate,
Loved seeing where you bead ... such beautiful things come from this space. I understand the magnifying glasses. I have a pair of *reading glasses* (I won't tell the magnification on them) in almost every room. My bad back send hugs to your bad back!
Hey Kate I don't know how you missed it either! You can still see all of Lisa's fun stuff if you click on the carnival badge!
I am going to have a little give away soon so don't forget to check back! xoxo Sheri DeBow
aaaahhhhh....
THAT is how you do it!
:-)
you are
so neatly put together
with your little bead bowls...
me?
i am all
over the kitchen table.
my Oreck XL 21 has
its own bead collection...
Hello Kate,
I really like your sense of humor and your approach to life.
You look very sharp in your studio, a great photo.
Thanks for letting us in for a visit.
~ Gabriela ~
Kudos to you. I couldn't work with all those tiny beads, magnifier or not.
I love your first song Kate! That is one of my top faves too!!
I also wear magnifying glasses to bead, that is too funny! Since having children, my fine motor skills seemed to have been shot..like stringing beads etc. So I use those reading glasses(manifying) and they seem to really help, those yours look cuter than mine do!!
p.s. Thanks for the comment on my post about Ross...thanks for the encouragement :) You're the best!
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