Originally Posted by carhop
i love them they are very beautiful i am very curious though what made you do these
I belong to a bead group that meets each Sat. afternoon. They are sooooo talented and very creative. I enjoy bead weaving but also found I enjoyed bead embroidery using cabachons and crystals creating pendants and bracelets.
One day, one of the gals had been to a thrift store and bought a bag of animals and everyone took one (I was last to arrive so got the last one) and I ended up with the anteater (at first I thought it was an armadillo and was excited to make it, then I realized it was an anteater so I figured what difference did it make.
I looked and looked, fixed it so it could be beaded, sat down and the rest is history as I say. I was 1/3 done when someone came over to my house to see my beaded dolls, spied the anteater and promptly said she wanted to buy it. I've now done 4 anteaters and have bags full of animals just waiting in the closet to be reborn. Sometimes, people purchase their animal and bring it to see if I can do it (example: snake and eyeore). I charge the same price whether I provide animal or not.
By the way, this is all since sometime in Feb.