The beadses have been speaking to me again...as you see, I've been busy making a pair of earrings to go with my elisem necklace "Wyatt's Cat".  These earrings have been prowling around the odd corners of my mind ever since I found the little cat beads that matched the eponymous Wyatt's Cat bead in my necklace, and they've finally taken (temporary) form.  I expect they'll evolve a bit as my skill increases and they speak to me more clearly about what they're supposed to be, but in the meantime I can wear them :-)

Apologies if the series of Scrapbook photos has clogged your friend's page -- I'm still getting the hang of working with the LJ Scrapbook feature and haven't mastered the LJ cut, either.

Earrings by Aitchellsee: My homage to "Wyatt's Cat", a pair of earrings I call "Wyatt's Kittens". [Sterling silver, bone, early Moe's beads, dalmatian jasper, fancy jasper, glass, horn, coral, and some other stuff]

Wyatt's Cat (detail of necklace by Elise Matthesen) This is my first and favorite necklace by elisem. She named it "Wyatt's Cat" for the cat-bead and the marshal's star that reminded her of Wyatt Earp.</lj>

Ever since I bought my first elisem necklace, "Wyatt's Cat" (see icon) at Noreascon two years ago, I've been under the spell of the beadses.

I found myself going to bead shops here in NYC and when visiting friends, say in Columbus OH, and ordering beads from eBay, and joining elisem's BOtM group, and I'd accumulated A Whole Bunch of Beads, but with the exception of a few pair of earrings for myself and friends, and one pendant for a friend (simple -- 1 bead on cord, so it doesn't really count) and watching elisem whenever I could at various cons, especially last month at LaconIV, I still hadn't been able to really sit down and make anything with them. Until recently.

Then, thinking about Jo Walton's book Farthing and the book launch party she was planning to host in Montreal, and the fact that she was filling in at Elise's booth at Noreascon when she helped me pick out "Wyatt's Cat", and the number of blue beads I'd accumulated over time, things just fell together and something clicked. I found myself putting together my first major bead project, a necklace for Jo that incorporated as many blue beads as I could pick out of my stash, a trio of pre-decimal British coins that matched the titles of her alternate history trilogy, and a scattering of BOtM beads that blended with the theme. I called it "This Farthing P[iece]" after the line from the book in which alternate-Churchill was reputed to have said "This Farthing Peace isn't worth a farthing".

And on the Amtrak ride up to Montreal I committed a second necklace, with Fishies (no pictures yet).

And then when I got home, I made another necklace, No. 3, for my sister-in-law who had hip replacement surgery the week before. And you can see the results here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aitchellsee/252131599/in/set-72157594298723555/