Personal DNA

  Yeah, Like I really had the time to sit and do a personal DNA test! LOL!!  Like I really didn’t have 50 other things on my list of things that need to be done….

Thank you Cat for sending me to Michelle Davis Petelinz’s blog!  How fun was that!!  

 This is my report!  (Don’t laugh!!)

My Personal DNA Report 

 

I think that  for the most part it is ME!  LOL!! That was the scary part too!!  I always enjoy these “test”!  I find them insightful and sometimes humorous!  I never see myself being as “kind and insightful” as they always make me out to be!  So it’s always a huge ego boost for me!

Speaking of an Ego Boost!!  Man Cat!!   You sure do know how to make a woman feel like a million bucks!  Thank you for all the wonderful words you said about me and my beads on your blog!  You are such a talented artist and such a giving person, I feel so blessed to have you as a friend! 

Hope you all have a Wonderful Weekend!!  It’s finally Spring here with warm weather!  This week as been WONDERFUL!!     This weekend is to be up in the lower 80’s!  We won’t know how to behave! LOL!!

Angel Wings or Ocean Waves?

Is it an Angel’s wing or an Ocean Wave? 

I am so thrilled with the outcome of this set of beads – of course the sparkle really doesn’t show – you can see the hints of glitter,–trust me they do sparkle like crazy! 

 I used circles and dots again! and lots of translucent clay!  Man What would I do without that stuff?  If you look closely you can see the cane design of circles and dots.  I just used varied shades of blue intertwined with lots of translucent clay.

I just watched where I placed the colors and once the cane slices were on the bead I smoothed the bead till it was all blended.  Then decided where I wanted to put the “wave” ….. it’s just always so exciting watching the bead take form under the glass…. the trick isknowing when to quit! LOL!   I just love swirling them and swirling them – I have swirled till there was no colors left to swirl! – oops! LOL!!

As you can see, just manipulating the cane you can create so many different looks for the beads….  Canes are just so much fun to play around with!

Circle Circle Dot Dot

These beads were made with lots of circles and dots…  I used translucent clay to seperate each circle/dot and to keep the colors from blending together…. Man, I just love the way they look… 

I named them “Flight of a Fairy.”  They look just like fairy wings to me ~ Girlie Girl Beads!! LOL!!

 Working on more!  and Almost have my mermaids done!!  Just need to drill holes…

I just joined Heather’s Bead Makers Blog Ring

Yep, I  just did…. or at least I think that I did!! LOL!!

I decided why not!! It just looks like it would be a  lot of fun!!

Heather, from HumbleBeads has a web ring for bead makers…. how fun!! 

 if you would like to see what it’s all about and join here is the link:

http://www.beadmakers.blogspot.com/

oh, and if you would like to learn more about her and her wonderful PC beads….

 Here is Heather’s Blog:  http://www.humblebeads.blogspot.com/

 now off to get some beading done! 

pins and needles

ok… I have to admit… I have been on pins and needles and a little freaked out about all of the talk of crediting and placing ownership on techniques in the PC world!  It really has just zapped the creative juices right out of me this week….  I am so scared of doing something similar to someone and trying to figure out where my inspiration really does come from!

Shoot yesterday alone I had an email from someone and then antoher person state to me that they wanted to credit me for their inspiration in creating beads!!!  What is going on?!?!  LOL!! 

I am fairly new to PC…. I was introduced to it about 3 years ago.  I have never taken a class, and I hate to read tutes, but I do get Polymer Cafe~  Most of what I do is inspired by nature… other PC artist… and lamp work artist… shoot, I even like looking at the scrap book pages for inspiration….  I see something and say “hey, I like that… let me see what I can come up with and lets see how it turns out”…. 

I guess to me PC is just like any other art medium.  You pick it up and you create what comes to you.    I never said, this is a drawling that I created, but I used this shading process that Mr. Custard, my art teach taught me in high school, and this pencil stroke was one that Mrs.Baldwin taught me in elementary.

PC is so new!  I create things that in my heart I just know it’s mine and only my idea, only to see it done by someone else…..  It’s going to happen time and time again….   I guess it’s like saying that you are the one that created that certain pencil stoke…. That one shading technique…   It’s enough to make a person go mad….. and loose a lot of creative energy, which I have this week… stressing!!

But after the emails I got it really did just HIT me!!   Why in the world would I want to take the credit for something that was strictly created by them?  There is not one ounce of “Tina T.” in those beads!  Nothing I did was in those beads…. how can I allow them to think that they should credit me for it……..   OH, The FREEDOM!!!  It came to me just like that!!  I have the freedom to create what I want and not worry about what inspired me, because we all are inspired each and everyday by something!  and life is way too short for me to stress over who or what it was that inspired me…… I JUST WANT TO CREATE!!

I know that there are people out there who will not agree with this.. and that is fine…   But I now know that I am not doing anything wrong….  I didn’t watch them – they didn’t show me – I just did it my way!!  So I can breath and be creative again!!  so off I go on another PC adventure!! 

Thanks for letting me vent!!   Vent back if you want!!  I would love to hear what others have to say!!

~Tina T.