Hah!

[akirlu]

And furthermore, Hah! I say. This is the sound of Ulrika having finished the triple-looped moss-covered color morph necklace of doom. And so I say unto you, Hah!

I ended up having to restring the whole thing in order to have enough extra thread to do the knotting. And still I was fighting with scooting beads out of knots with tweezers and subvocalized swearing by the time I got to the end. It turns out they really mean it when they suggest untold spare yards of silk to thread on, because knots eat a surprising amount of thread. Still, the fixed-needle knotting technique sped things up enormously (thanks for the link, Marilee!). And the re-string allowed me to make some small improvements in the overall bead layout while I was about it, but really, it could be a complete three alarm conflagration and I'd still be pretty damn' happy because IT'S DONE!

Which reminds me -- don't let anyone tell you that if something feels like homework that proves you don't love it enough to make a career of it. Anything -- ANY damn thing -- be it done for money or fun or love or even orgasms can feel like homework sometimes. Don't judge your love of anything by what it feels like when you hit a chore-point. That's like judging sex by how much you like it when he puts all his weight on the arm that's trapped your hair.

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[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

(looks up while copying the last two sentences into my big Notes to Self binder)

...uh, hi, did you say something? I'll be with you in a minute, I'm almost finished writing.

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

The above might have been too dry. I mean that I liked it.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

From you, I have come to expect the Atacama. Which is to say, I got it the first time. But hey. Confirmation is often useful. Also, even joking about copying it into a notebook was scary enough to inspire me to go back and fix the line-edit I just spotted.

Whew!

[liveavatar.livejournal.com]

Communication has been a little wavery lately on my end, if certain conversations with other people mean anything. So I wanted to be Ultra-Sure (TM).

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Also, the Jon Stewart icon kinda makes the point all by itself. So thanks for that.

[albionwood.livejournal.com]

Word.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

And where's the picture?!

Here's what I just finished:

http://www.mjlayman.com/catflowr.jpg

I couldn't match the lighter red/pink colors on the polyclay cab, so I went all black with different sizes/styles/finishes plus ruby-lined black Delicas (the light diagonal lines) and burgundy Swarovski bicones on the last inch and around the cab. The Delicas & bicones are slightly more obvious in real life.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Picture s-o-o-o-o-n. I would have done it yesterday, but got hung up on wanting the clamp light I have for photography lighting and not being able to figure out where it got off to. Maybe tonight I'll catch up on WIP photos, since I still need to shoot that amber-and-pearl hedgehog.

I do like that helical spiral effect very much -- nice work.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

In the meantime, I'm wearing the new necklace today to test it out. It seems to wear pretty well.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

Okay, photo now posted in my most recent entry, here.