Nature

Rudeness, disrespecting of people places, animals,and our Mother Earth.

Family, friends, beads of course!

A Lake, any where.

Leave nothing behind but your footprints.

Steak & Italian

Beading, thread crochet

love seeing my creations. Relaxes me, even when I'm trying to learn something new. Its also my escape, to totally concentrate on something that brings pleasure in a sometimes not so pleasant world. No Boundries!

Would be my loomed turtle

Magazines, books, nature,other designs I've seen.

Never give up, relax, it will happen.

Just about any where I go, I'm either making or drawing.

stores Forempontain is a favorite, ebay, Garden of Beadin

I'm of Cherokee descent, and for several years I was a traditional dancer. I always admired everyones beadwork. Well, we have a conteat once a year at Powwow, and my name is Little Turtle, I had picked up a book obout the Thirteen Clan Mothers and the story really revolves around the Turtle. Which has thirteen segments on its shell. I decide that because of my name, and the strong feelings I had about what I had read, I wanted to do a turtle for my shawl. I drew it out on graph paper, chose my colors for all the depictions for it, and shopped for the beads. I had never even strung beads before. But one of the women told me how to do the loom. I had one of the small ones she gave me and gave it a start. My design would never fit. So, I designed and built an adjustable loom. I loved doing it, it came very naturally to me. I then beaded a strip for edging using the design on my ring, in my 'colors' red, black and off white. I'm very proud to say I won first place. Needless to say I was hooked.

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