Inventory Your Projects This Holiday Season

The holidays are upon us and what better time to take inventory of all the bead projects we’ve worked on this year. We’ve all taken some classes, learned some new stitches, and started LOTS of projects. I’m not embarrassed to say that I have my share of incomplete projects in the drawer. Every artist has to experiment, right? You have to try new things, sometimes dozens of times, before finding just the right design. There are necklaces I started only to run out of beads before finishing, new designs that just didn’t work out, a new bracelet obsession started in every color…and then there’s that Crystal Cuff bracelet I started for my sister’s birthday back in March…three years ago!

This holiday season, I’m making an early New Year’s resolution: to finish all - no, most - definitely some - of the projects I’ve started this year before starting anything new. Well, maybe just a few new things... After all, they make great holiday gifts!