I can blame this bad photo on the computer. I still have to search so much to find anything that by the time I have a bad photo downloaded I am too exasperated to go back to do it again. The dragon, however, is a great joy. Last night I started adding the beads that go over the nose and the red really focusses the sequins. Looking the dragon here, I see I need to do some needle work to remodel the nose - it is too sweet to be breathing fire!

I am offered so many options to get the photos out of my camera that the job is not going well. I am attempting to get back on my schedule of posting every couple of days, but this fight among programs to serve me has my head swimming. Just when I think I have learned how to manage one thing, six other offers pop up, my dyslexia drops down over me.
Anyhow this little dragon attempts to keep me sane! I want to do his wings in black and have red on the mane. That pretty well describes my mood!

I am still struggling to get my new computer to work, but I was able to take this photo the other day and today I was able to get my keyboard to work (thank all the computer gods!) I am already about 1/2 done with the new silver dragon. I thought of going to take a photo of it, but am afraid my keyboard will slip out the window while I am gone! I am okay. I am simply trying to keep my sense of humor while going through all these changes!

I was feeling the rabbit, which is covered with pink beads, looks so orange here but I see in the previous photo it also looked very orange. I liked how the whiskers turned out. I had bought a bunch of #15 needles and they are so breakable that often a new one will break as I thread it. So I began keeping the longer sections to stick through the limp lines of white beads. When I got the needle in I could push the extra length  in to hide it in the animal.

One day when my glasses were bothering me and it was just too hard to see the beads, I cut open a big baby giraffe and a baby one to replace the stuffing. They looked so fat they did not even look like giraffe-like. Then I found a way to tuck in the extra fabric to give them a figure. So above is the tiny one and below if the bigger one. I tried something new on the big one. I finished the ears, feet and horns, and mane and then I started the rest of the skin. I don't know how much time this system saved me, but I certainly liked looking at the animal that seemed to becoming one.

When I get this one done I will photograph it beside the tiny one so you can see the difference.

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. The new glasses are due in a week. The old ones have been readjusted so I can see better than I could. Lynx is in its final proof and yesterday I was able to bead all day long. Finally made some progress on this full-sized Beanie Baby Bunny.

Packed up Peanuts for GrandDaughter Ashley's birthday next week. I hope she will enjoy the significance of an elephant for her. I had such joy in choosing a beast for her.Happy Birthday Ashley!

More and more I am thinking that my headaches and feelings that I am lost or not comprehending the world as I should is due to changes that need to be made in my glasses. I noticed it was so hard to finish this giraffe with the tiny Charlottes someone had given me.for his hooves Between the black thread, the black beads and the dark  inner spaces I simply could not see anything at night with lamps.

So in desperation to be beading something, and not to feel too old to bead, I went back to doing these stars from Dorise Ford. The bright colors seem to help me a bit but I still see places where I have not placed the needle precisely. This only makes me more eager for Friday and the appointment with Gina.. Today the sun is shining so I want to see if I can get all the undone places beaded before dark.

I am surprised that Blogger even remembered me! It seems so long since I was here. Between the holidays, finishing the book (it is out today - http://www.amazon.com/Symbiotic-Poetry-Jane-Reichhold/dp/1494422778/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1388868284&sr=1-1&keywords=symbiotic+poetry) and the long hours it took to bead the kangaroo I have not had much to show. Since the tree is still up, the photo shoot set-up is occupied so you get only a desktop view.

Here you can see the baby kangaroo better. I finished late last night and I think I need to readjust the baby so it's head is more upward and looking straight ahead.