Leather Wrap Class at The Bead Shop on Magazine St.

I'm so stoked about this upcoming class that I'm teaching in June. So when I walked into the Bead Shop on Magazine last weekend and saw my examples being displayed I was beside myself. I asked that they unlock the glass so that I could take a picture! That's how excited I was.

Bead Shop on Magazine Leather Wrap Workshop Display
Call (504) 895-6161 to register.

The examples shown is a one wrap and a three wrap bracelet but the class will focus on making the one wrap in order to learn the whole process.

Everyone knows I've been making a lot of leather wrap bracelets these days. I can't have enough and lucky for me I know how to make them. Otherwise they would cost a fortune. They are so much fun to make and I would like to teach everyone how to do it!

I'm teaching the workshop at The Bead Shop on Magazine St. on Thursday June 2, 2011 at 6:00 pm.

Call the Bead Shop at (504) 895-6161 and sign up for the class.

Do it now! Don't mean to be pushy but sometimes it just comes out.

Come and join me... I would love to meet you!

Namaste
Kalaya

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For The Love Of Bees!!!

Did I ever tell y'all that I absolutely adore bees? I think they are the most amazing beings on the planet. Well...at this moment I did. I saw this piece of furniture at University of British Columbia outside its bookstore. I'm like cool man. What is this? This totally inspired me. Yes I looked inside this tiny cells to see if anything was inside but to my disappointment no.
I heard a woman say, hey look at that. I bet there are bees inside. Hahahaha!!! No silly woman. Tricks are for kids! hahaha Cute...very cute that she thought that.
This piece of art/furniture sparked curiosity and that is the AWESOMist thing EVER! But what is more cool is THIS... Did y'all read that? Shrooms helped make them. What a great collaborative endeavor. How long does a piece of furniture like this last? I have no clue but talk about impermanence.
I LOVE IT! So there you have it folks. The future awaits.
Namaste Kalaya

A Love Note To My Readers

Dear Friends,
My gallery has decided to move and it saddens me to say that I will not be going with them. I have broken away from the herd.
So what now?
This is what I ask myself and to be honest I do not know.
I turn to you.
The ones who come back to read...to listen to my failures, successes, and my angst. I am grateful that you are still here.

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_/\_
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Every now and then a little elf steps into the studio while I am working and starts asking these annoying questions.

What are you doing?
Why are you wasting your time working on that?
PRODUCTION WORK?!!!
WTH?!!!

He (yep the little bugger is a "he"), I shall name him Doubt, infects my mind from time to time.
This all happened last Friday while making some of my New Orleans' Token pendants.

So I reached down deep inside me to think about the "why". I thought about it because I was running towards something else and resisting the moment.

As I sat there at my bench working on this particular token pendant here is what came to me.
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The ones I use for my pendants are minted in 1947.

I do not clean them up. Instead I examine them, hold them, turn them over in my hand, and then begin my work.
I do not…

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