I'm going to be a bead teacher!

I'm so excited, our Phoenix East Valley Beader group's facilitator has enlisted help from some of us to teach beading at Art Gems in Mesa, AZ. There are about 6 or 7 of us listed and I am hopeful that our classes do well, not just for me, but for all of us.

I'm going to be teaching a Cabochon 101 class and a beaded doll class. If things go well I'll expand my class offerings to beaded journals.

Times may be tough right now, but I'm still looking for other work as well.

Hope everyone is doing well this summer

Beadily yours
Susan Feldkamp
Night Beader

I finished beading the bra!

The photo is a little blurry, I'll take another soon. I was so excited to finish this project! It took 5 tubes of black seed beads just for the fringe. I was inspired by breast cancer survivor's decorated bras and had to bead one. Since I'm still very "large" I didn't want to bead a bra of my own. The bra was purchased at our local Goodwill thrift store and have been beading on it since April 13th.

My next step is to email a better photo of the beaded bra to Belle Armoire and see if it can get into the magazine.

I hope you all like it!

Beadily yours
Susan Feldkamp
nightbeaderatlarge.blogspot.com

Amulet Bag for my cell phone

While at the grocery store one evening, a man asked me for the time. Not thinking I grabbed my cell phone out of my bra (it's usual storage space) and told him the time. How embarrassing was that?

I then decided to make myself an amulet bag for my cell phone!

Here is the bag with an insert of how it looks with the phone visible. Now my bra now longer rings and people like the jewelry.

Birth of Venus

I've had this wonderful lamp work goddess bead from Kim Miles for quite some time and finally made a necklace of her that I'm proud to wear. She is my rendition of the Birth of Venus. I drilled 2 small holes inside the sea shell I had and beaded the goddess bead into the shell, then I made a necklace with size 11 & 15 seed beads in the spiral pattern. I hope Kim likes what I've done with her bead!

Beadily yours
Susan Feldkamp
Night Beader

I've been struggling

It's been almost 7 months since my lap-band surgery and I hate to admit that I'm still struggling. One of my hopes was that the lap-band would help me by not being able to eat the sweets I crave so often. I was wrong! The sweet stuff goes down easier than everything else.

There is no quick fix and no easy answer. I attended a special support group at WLIAZ and found out that I'm not alone. Many of us are still having issues, that helps me not feel like a "loser".

I wrote down everything I ate yesterday and worked out with a Richard Simmons video and took at 30 minute brisk walk. Very sore today but I did get a couple of lovely photos of the flowers I saw while on the walk.

Many of the orchid trees in our neighborhood are in full bloom and that was one of my grandmother's favorite tree so I snapped a photo in her memory. Then I came upon this lovely ground cover which has small daisy like flowers. The wonders of nature help me to focus and I'm praying for more self control.



Thanks for checking out my blog.
Beadily yours
Susan Feldkamp
aka Night Beader

January's Beaded Art Journal finished

My January page is finished, yeah! I know that it is way past January, better late than never! Now it's on to February! I didn't lose much weight in February so I used the same photo with some Photoshop filters and turned myself in shades of red for Valentine's.

Check back soon to see February's page!

Beadily yours
Susan Feldkamp
Night Beader

Roses in the moon light

Hi all,

I snapped a couple of photos of our pink roses bush tonight while the full moon was out, it also helps to have a digital camera with a built in flash! Larry & I cut them back in early January and they have really taken off.

Our weather is wonderful and the citrus blossom fragrance fills the air with a heavenly scent. This is one of my favorite times of the year and I enjoy leaving the windows open during the evening to catch the fragrances of all the flowers.

I went to the doctor's office last week for another band adjustment and have made a commitment to check back in with the nutritionist on the 17th for a progress check. Didn't do so well these last 3 months (scale wise).

Hope everyone will soon be enjoying spring weather like those of us in Arizona.

Beadily yours
Susan Feldkamp
Night Beader