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The Bead Journal Project

by Cyndi Lavin

Is there any beader out there who has not heard about this project yet? If so, bookmark this site, and make sure that you get in on it next year (I am counting on this becoming an on-going event!). I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate before it was too late. Robin Atkins, beader extraordinaire, has modeled this project on the Quilt Journal Project that many are already familiar with. The blog homepage for the project is the 2007 Bead Journal Project. From the blog site:

About the 2007 Bead Journal Project
We are 239 women and 1 man who are dedicated and committed to creating 12 bead journal pages, one per month, for a year, starting June 1, 2007. We live in 13 different countries, including 37 states in the USA. Our primary goal during this process, is to stretch our creative and technical limits. The BJP is all about visual journaling using any media and techniques, as long as it includes beading. We are free to structure our bead journal pages any way we want, as long as all 12 are the same size.

I have chosen to do the names of the moon for each month. Researching this, I found that there were many alternate names for each month’s full moon, so I put together a list of the names I liked the best. I also decided to do the moon for the previous month each time. I’m not sure why…probably just because I really wanted to start with May, which is the “Flower Moon”. So here is my offering for June:

may-flower-moon-72.jpg


In July, I’ll be doing the “Strawberry Moon” for June!

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Posted in Artist Communities, Bead Embroidery, Bead Journal Project, Calls For Entries & Submissions, Mixed Media, Non-Wearables on June 29th, 2007

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  1. Bead Blogging Babes 06/29/07 Says:
    June 29th, 2007 at 8:12 am

    [...] from Bead Arts, joined the Bead Journal Project, started by Robin Atkins, and in this post, she shows the beaded journal page that she has created [...]

  2. Talking about the moon… « Violet Cottage Says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 5:39 am

    [...] came across this beautiful beaded picture whilst I was looking for moon images ~ isn’t it gorgeous?  The artist is taking part in a [...]

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