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Visit the Bead Journal Project website! Visit the 2008 BJP member pages, a gallery of completed work by members who have finished 8 or more pages during the first year of the project.
The 2008-09 BJP, starts with September and continues through August of 09. Guidelines for participation may be found here. To be an official member and to post to this blog, you must have registered prior to August 15, 2008.
We have our own BJP Flickr group, where we can post pictures of our work. This is a good way for members who do not have a personal blog to post pictures. Also, you can see many BJP pieces by different members in one place. You must "join" Flickr to post your pictures.
Due to limitations of Blogger, there are three ongoing blogs to document the Bead Journal Project this year. Here are links to all three blogs:
Bead Journal Project Blog #1
Bead Journal Project Blog #2
Bead Journal Project Blog #3
The 2008-09 BJP, starts with September and continues through August of 09. Guidelines for participation may be found here. To be an official member and to post to this blog, you must have registered prior to August 15, 2008.
We have our own BJP Flickr group, where we can post pictures of our work. This is a good way for members who do not have a personal blog to post pictures. Also, you can see many BJP pieces by different members in one place. You must "join" Flickr to post your pictures.
Due to limitations of Blogger, there are three ongoing blogs to document the Bead Journal Project this year. Here are links to all three blogs:
Bead Journal Project Blog #1
Bead Journal Project Blog #2
Bead Journal Project Blog #3
About the Bead Journal Project
The brain child of Robin Atkins, the first Bead Journal Project, which began in June of 2007, included 241 women and 1 man who were dedicated and committed to creating 12 bead journal pages, one per month, for a year.
The BJP is all about visual journaling using any media and techniques, providing it includes some beading. We are free to structure our bead journal pages any way we want, as long as all 12 are the same size.
The current years' Bead Journal Project runs from September, 2008 through August, 2009. This blog is a means by which we may support each other in process, techniques and design. Participants (many with links to their personal blogs or websites) are listed below.
Due to limitations of Blogger, there are three ongoing blogs to document the Bead Journal Project this year. Here are links to all three blogs:
Bead Journal Project Blog #1
Bead Journal Project Blog #2
Bead Journal Project Blog #3
The BJP is all about visual journaling using any media and techniques, providing it includes some beading. We are free to structure our bead journal pages any way we want, as long as all 12 are the same size.
The current years' Bead Journal Project runs from September, 2008 through August, 2009. This blog is a means by which we may support each other in process, techniques and design. Participants (many with links to their personal blogs or websites) are listed below.
Due to limitations of Blogger, there are three ongoing blogs to document the Bead Journal Project this year. Here are links to all three blogs:
Bead Journal Project Blog #1
Bead Journal Project Blog #2
Bead Journal Project Blog #3
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- My Sept Page
- #1 Done
- Beading done!
- Finally Started
- September's page is finished
- Beginning
- Finished
- I finally chose a size and shape!
- playing catch up/making progress
- September complete!
- My september piece is ready. If you would like to ...
- September
- 2008 BJP September Page
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- Adding the BJP button
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- BJPers are The Best!
- Hello
- I have nearly completed my September block, need o...
- Info Requested re: Site Build It
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- 1 down, 11 to go!
- I Know Everything and Just Learned Something
- Getting Started
- September BJP
- September Notes - Phoenix Rising
- September page progress
- Unstable finish of beads
- Another progress picture
- September page finished
- Using Labels and other reminders
- Blogging Tips
- About beading foundation
- Hi from France
- September page started
- Sept started
- September - Translations
- Notes to Self - Crimp Beads and Bead Embroidery
- September
- My first BJP baby
- Returning Member
- Hi from up north in Wisconsin...
- 'Bad Liz' is Profound
- Blogger Troubles?
- Started September
- Inspiration for the journal
- Hi everyone
- Am I here yet?
- A cautious start
- Old stuff popping up
- Practice Page
- Flickr Group
- This Is Australia Calling
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12 comments:
I thought this was an exercise to find creativity in yourself - it's not a 'good enough' thing at all. Please DO give it a try - you'll be really surprised by your own abilities!
- That Celticat Chick
If you can sew one bead on a piece of fabric, you are "good enough". Choose a small size to work on and add beads. Simple as that. You will be amazed at what you can come up with. Last year we had experienced beaders and brand new beaders. I think everyone's skills went up this last year. I know mine did. It doesn't have to be big or fancy. Just put what you feel onto each page. Try different things until you find something you love, then go for it. I know you can do it.
Arline
That was my thought last year. I'll tell you a secret---you are good enough! Don't look at the other pages, look at your beads, fabric, thread, and then look in your heart. This is your expression and no one has the right to tell you it's not good enough----And they won't.
Be gentle with yourself because you are good enough and everyone here will support you and answer any questions you might have.
I was thinking of beads and scrapbooking...do you think that will fly?
Duh, Cookeg. Haven't you read the other comments? Of course your idea will fly. It doesn't matter what medium you choose as long as there is a bead in it. Scrapbooking is as valid a milieu as any other and if scrapbooking is your choice, then go for it.
Now, for a good laugh, read my "September Project" entry: it starts out 'State of brain today: missing'. Thanks to a2Susan and Shebaduhcat I learned what to do. It really is rather embarrassing to me. But before anybody can laugh at me I am pointing out my own mortal flaws with laughter. If I can ask that question, then surely you can manage very well in this Project.
Good luck, Cookeg. And to everybody else. ...Glass0
Just give it a chance. I think you will completely amaze yourself!
I will give it a chance :) Just a little self conscious (sp?)
Just remember that the BJP is supposed to be fun, okay? You will surprise yourself with how "good enough" you are . . .
Kathy V in NM
We are all good enough, because we are. How profound is that. Last year, I would look at the pictures and think to myself - how can I compete with the others doing this. That was my problem - compete. It's not a competetion - it's an exploration of what is inside each one of us.
What is in common is that we are all using a medium with holes in it to drag it out (some months, the exploration came out kicking and screaming, but it came out). Look forward to seeing your work.
Hi there, cookeg. Believe me, most of us have felt we weren't good enough for this at one time or another! What I learned is that each person has their own style and that's what makes them unique. So don't worry about anyone else's bjp, just have fun with yours and you'll be fine. a2susan
Take in all the wise comments above... they're right! Just try to let go of two things:
1. the need to be perfect and/or right.
2. the idea of competition, which this flat out isn't.
You'll learn and explore and have fun with the rest of us! We welcome you just exactly the way you are.
Robin A.
What wonderful advice & encouragement you have been given by the wise Women above.
I Know you will be fine, in the words of Robin in her book; One bead at a Time.. Just chose a bead you like & sew it on, then another & another..
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