I did stop beading long enough to photograph the chicken I am working on. I started him only because I found a white 11 bead that I thought would look good for his feathers. I had been searching for white, roundish beads with decent-sized holes. Here it was, on my table so I decided to strike while the iron was hot! or my mind had not forgotten.
I was pleased that I had the idea to make his waddle more rough looking with the three bead stitch. What you cannot see the left wing. It is nearly done but was on the shadow side. Was discombobulated by the coming holiday so did not work very long yesterday. Our fall weather has begun with sunny days so I was able to photograph later in the afternoon.

Found out today officially that "Frog Purse" did sell!

And there are photos on Facebook that anyone can see including this excellent one of

the Frog Purse.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152269325517967.1073741873.133390837966. Mark Hansen, PR person for Gualala Arts did a really great job with the frog photograph! Thanks Mark! so much.
Thanks for sharing all the photos you took to get the best one.

So here are all the daisy necklaces I made in this session. Only the pink one used the too-tiny pearl beads. The other two used the better-made white beads which one can see are slightly larger. They were so much easier to use and actually were fun which is why I made the two extra strings.

Also today I got an email from a woman in the Bay Area wanting an elephant.She had seen my animals at CHAC in Point Arena. I searched everywhere for the many photos I know I have and then had to settle with pointing her to the blog. Thank goodness I did have the photos there. I will never forgive Windows 7 for being such a beast to find and use with photos.

Believe it or not, I am back to making necklaces!
When Harmony was here she mentioned that the daisy chain necklace she had gotten several years ago had sprung a leak. So I figured out a daisy chain that does not repeat passage through the 11s. This way I could use heavier thread. So the centers are 8s and the green leaves are 6s. Normally I could have made two or more such necklaces in a day, but instead this one took 2 days. I am making another in the same pattern with yellow centers. I am using some old white 11s and often the holes are too small so I have to take those out. This is taking much longer than the pink one.

I just wanted to report that the frog purse you have seen pictured here so often won a prize at Art in the Redwoods! It was given the "Beading Excellence" award of $100. and the scuttlebutt is that the purse sold! The check for the prize has already been received and the sale money should arrive soon.
Have gotten stories about it! How one of the arrangers of the show tried to pull the five dollar bill out and was shocked to find it sewed down.
One person asked me if the money in the mouth was a bribe for the judges!
So all and all it was a good experience! I would like to see the show before it goes down.

You can barely see the crystals here on the polar bear which is a good reason for NOT doing this animal. However I have so many crystals and they need to go somewhere. I am sure there are not enough to do the swan so I decided to put them on the bear. I am not inspired with this project so they go on very slowly. I do wish I could be fired up and inspired to bead something. I have what the Germans call 'null buck' which means no desire to do anything. Since it is hard for me to set aside any project I see myself slowly doing this one and as it grows becoming more interested in it.

I took a good look at Gracie the swan and decided I would need a lot more beads for her and lost interest in the project. Still I wanted to use up those tiny crystals so started a small polar bear. Boring!