I decided to make 6x6 cm pages for my unofficial Bead Journal Project, and then join them into one 24x18 cm beadwork. I make them so tiny just because I don't have experience in bead embroidery, and I almost don't have time to bead. So, 6x6 cm is optimal size to me. Unfortunately, my digital camera is broken, so I can't post picture of my work in progress, and I can't scan it either - because it has dimensional grass area. I'll photograph it later.
I'd better post a page from my visual journal - I created it when I graduated this winter.
Don't you know I have a degree in economic risk analysis? :) I studied mathematical methods in economics for 5.5 years, and I'm so happy it's over! I have humanitarian mindset and it was very hard and uninteresting experience.
Now I've started to think how to connect my job with my passion - beads. I've come to idea of online bead store - we don't have enough of them here in Russia. As a matter of fact, there are only 3 bead stores in Moscow, 4 or 5 online stores with quite poor selection, and there are no bead stores in other regions at all. So we have here the same situation that was 15 or 20 years ago in USA: 3 bead stores, no beadwork communities, fery few books & magazines and growing interest to beads - a large business & creative field to explore.
I can't explain how enthusiastic I feel about making my own business! I'm so tired to work in big company - mostly because I can't see the results of my work. I make sales contracts of goods I've never seen, how stupid!
So, my own online bead store. I'm trying to find beads manufactures (mostly in Europe, esp. Czech Respublic, to minimize shipping costs). Do you have any experience in beads business, or maybe you do have friends who know advantages & disadvantages of running bead store?
I would be very grateful if you could give me some information about beads business & manufactures.
27th of April was a very special day. I became a blood donor. I realized that I live in pasteboard world. It's not real, I can't feel it. I can't feel myself. I'm not sure I do the right things every day. People live on Earth not just for going to work to make money to buy things and then go home to rest because they're tired of making money. I realized that being helpful to other people, making good deeds is the key to happiness. I can't find the right words to explain my feelings when they took 450 ml of my blood. I wasn't scared at all, it wasn't painful. It took only 15 minutes and than I became the happiest girl in the world. Only 15 minutes and 450 ml of blood can save somebody's life. I felt like flying, I felt so alive! My doctor was more utilitarian and said my euphoria could be caused by anoxaemia :) Anoxaemia or whatever - but I liked this feeling a lot. I can help other people. My life is not senseless.
And one more thing I want to share - on May, 12th I celebrated my 23rd birthday. I'm a big girl now! And I'm frustrated I missed Robin's Beaded Journal project. I think I should organize my own Beaded Journal project, with only one participant. Myself :)
