I am going to combine June and July since I know everyone is busy with vacations, ball games etc. This will also give you more time to work out your design and order beads, etc. The Summer Challenge is going to feature tubular Herringbone Stitch. The Rule is very simple: Make a tubular Herringbone Necklace. It must have royal blue as a main color. According to paint charts, Royal Blue encompasses a lot of shades of blue. You can complement it with any other colors you want. It can be as wide as you want, use whatever beads you want. Box 5 of Bead Master Envy is an example. I will be scheduling a a quick tutorial mid-June. (I'm babysitting my grandkids next week) This challenge will end July 31. I haven't decided on a prize yet, but you know it will be good. 😉 Good Luck!

Looking at all of you and your projects that you are working on, I am envious, I love to bead, craft of any sort, as it relaxes me. BUT, how do you get yourself out of a funk where you feel like you aren't able to bead or do anything. My day to day employment makes me exhausted and by the end of the day I just don't want to do anything. Help a ole lady out. I am too young to be this tired. 😂 Seriously though.

I had completed these 2 weekends ago, along with another set of earrings, I was burning the midnight oil. Especially with the first photo, I had taken the earrings apart 3x until I got them the way I liked them to hang. Thoughts?

How many unfinished beading projects do you have laying around that you 'swear' you are going to finish? These are projects that you already started.

Along the way we all find that one (or few) things that helped so much that we can't bead without. To us it's so obvious, but it may not even have crossed anyone else's mind to think of it. What do you have that you cannot bead without? I thought if we shared that something then maybe we could make someone else's beading life easier and more enjoyable.