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Nalla - Bead
Artist and Owner of Turn
left onto
Beading Path: Within a few
months I had learned a simple flower weave design, a permutation of the
right-angle weave. I used to sit in my bed late at night weaving strings
of these little flowers. My sister-in-law accused me of being the only
teenager in town who had beads in her bed instead of crumbs! I thought
that was hilarious and was proud of the image. She then commissioned me to
make a 36 inch rope using the flower weave all in black seed beads. It was
beautiful to me, looking like black lace and so elegant! Merge
into Creative Way:
Right on the Road of Life:
Interestingly enough, when I went back to school at the ripe old age of 36 I
ended up majoring in mathematics and eventually graduated with both a bachelors
degree and a masters degree in math! I then taught math at the college level for
the next number of years. This year represents a temporary departure from
that road. Curve
back into
Beading Path: My infatuation with beads begat the name of my website: It is a combination of the words "unique" and "iniquities" because becoming a bead artist has proven to be a uniquely and nearly sinful obsession for me. And now I'm ready to share the beads and my beadwork with the world. HI
WORLD -- COME LOOK
AT MY BEADS, |
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I'm
just an old hippie and as such am not at all new to
beads. I grew up in the little town of Sierra Madre, California nestled
against the San Gabriel Mountains. When I was about 16 a color-blind
neighbor boy about my age asked me to go to the bead store with him to help him
pick out beads for a hippie necklace. He was afraid that if left to his
own devices he would end up with colors bad enough to alienate even his best
friends. I agreed to go and was completely amazed at this little store
that sold nothing but beads BEADS BEADS!
Of course I bought a couple of dollars worth for
myself and had made up strings for everyone I knew within just a few days.
(Of course we didn't do anything fancy in those days. We just strung 'em
up and wore 'em until they broke.
ive activity going on in my life. I discovered early on
that I am less than half a person (and a very grumpy mal-adjusted one at that!)
if I'm not actively involved in creativity.
ently
and was amazed by some of the things I saw! (to get a look at some of the people
and things which inspired me see my "links" page) I had no idea about bead
weaving! I had never seen freeform and sculptural beadwork! For
weeks my brain was a-buzz with magical words like embellishment, peyote, nbdele,
Swarovski, Miyuki, Nymo, Fireline, Sharps, Pony, etc. Then I began to use
the words, to learn the techniques, buy the beads, BUY THE
BEADS, BUY THE BEADS!
And weave the beads. And obsess over the beads.