Escapees North Ranch, Congress, AZ

It wasn't long before we arrived at North Ranch for Karen's long awaited Week of Beading!!! I had done Stringing with the twins and it was time to learn some new Beading techniques.

I usually use Delica beads; very seldom using Seed Beads. This was a week of learning to bead with seed beads. I sure do have a stock of seed beads now. In addition to the lessons there was a great "store" that Cathy Benson was offering. Cathy was the "managing coordinator and director" of our week. She had gather together many beading friends from both North Ranch and Saguaro Park in Benson, AZ to teach the different projects.

We came everyday for 5 days, eight hours a day and sometimes into the evening we beaded together. If we were at home in the evening, we beaded by ourselves; finishing one of the two projects we learned.

An option of a different sort was learning to bead on gourds. Some of the men came to join the gals in beading gourds.

Somehow there just isn't time to practice all the beading I learned; between catching up on blogging, moving and visiting more National Parks and Monuments.

Ok, so it is evening, television is on and maybe I better get beading then. TTFN