Things I learned with this project:
1. Seed Beads are expensive and I never should have gotten rid of the millions I had just because they fell out of their separate containers and got all mixed together.
2. Being a crafter means getting excited over such things as an assortment of different colored copper wire
3. That K-Marts still exist and that the one in Broomfield smells like fumes people huff out of aerosol cans and still has the design and neon lights it had in 1984
4. Working with thin, 30 gauge wire is just as frustrating or more than working with string. Kinks and knots occur frequently and are hard to get out because the wire is stubborn (so its a mystery on why the kinks get there in the first place)
5. That I don't know what I was thinking when I was obsessed with beading on a loom in high school.
6. That I remember that working with seed beads was just the kind of tedious project my brain needs to get me to stop obsessing.
7. That the lamp my sister made me with the shade made entirely of seed beads is a masterpiece in patience and talent. (Honestly I already knew that - I have fallen asleep by its light many nights thinking "oh my god, how did she do that it must have taken her forever and about seven hundred fits of frustrated rage at those tiny little beads").
8. That I can become just as upset at my seed beads as my husband becomes at our sod when little round spots of it turns brown, reminding myself to cut him a little slack
9. Flower tape is not actually tape, it is barely sticky at all.
10. Beaded flowers are beautiful.
Side Note: I made the small camellia flower and instead of adhering it to velvet ribbon for a wedding corsage as Martha suggests, I sewed it to a string of leather so that it was a bracelet that could be worn everyday. See below for pictures.
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