The new Bandroom revealed

After 12 years of being in what he called 'the tin can'- an inner room,
on an inside hallway, with no windows or light from the outside, the
new classrooms and office seem like Heaven to Mr Aytch!! The students
love it as well, and are much happier.
Thank you, Cherokee People!
(remember any photo can be clicked to bring full size)

Out with the Old, In with the New

Kurt's Music Awareness/Piano Lab makes way for the
brand-new Film class this January at Cherokee HS, and
we have spent many hours changing things about. Flats
from the old HS were brought over, felt applied to one
side and black paint to the other, to separate the viewing
area from the lecture/discussion area. The screen was built
from a piece of the old glass beaded screen, stretched over
a 1 X 4 wooden frame, stapled in place and then hung. A
traveler rod hangs on that frame, with velvet curtains to
protect the screen when not in use.
The class will take the students on a journey from Man's
earliest attempts to save images right up to today's most
modern techniques of film. This will be a college level class,
with much thinking, discussion and writing- not for the
faint-hearted, but for those who want to know all they can
about film producing, directing and showing will find most,
if not all, their dreams realized...and Kurt will have a blast!

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All done~

My DH thinks the color scheme is right out of

Fredericks of Hollywood, so the name 'Frederick's Lantern.

Added an extra row of dangles and peyoted the top V

of the inner ones, because I do not like the wonky look

of single delica lines.Also added a few dangles to the top

sections for more bling...gotta have bling!

Lantern Pagoda ornament

This was supposed to be the Paula Adam's pattern

featured in the Dec 06 Bead and Button magazine,

but I got to wondering what would happen if I

changed out the side and added some crystal

roundelles in two sizes....well, what happens is;

it gets longer, and I am running out of the main

bead color. Plus, what was I thinking with all that

purple and no other colors to warm it up. Dk Green

Iris doesn't do it and neither does the crystal AB

for the 'windows'.

Hate the bottom- and there are too many passes

for me to be able to get it to do what I want...I see

the trusty scissors coming and redoing. Yep, I am

a perfectionist...but this is the perfect medium for it,

only losing a bit of Time and thread, and I am going

to use 4# Fireline, so that I have more room to get

thread inside the delicas!

You can also purchase Paula's pattern at;

http://www.beadpatterns-paulaadams.com/ and see

all her other wonderful patterns as she would

wish them done.

Ruby and Frost Earrings

These were adapted from a photo of some done by another

beader, who had used the pattern that came with the Bead

Calendar. I don't have the calendar, but it looked easy enough

to figure out!

Funny thing is, the pattern had it as a two needle piece, but

mine used a single needle, making less unwieldy to create.

I did not have enough 5mm to use on the outside, so used more

4mm.

Happy Holidays!