>Emergency Bead Run

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Here's a quick glimpse of my beading work space. Currently, I'm working on the tail piece for my beaded Beatles Yellow Submarine. But before I began this part, I had to make an emergency bead run to Beaucoup Beads in Scituate, MA. I almost ran out of shell-coloured seed beads! Luckily, the shop still had some in stock...

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If you took a closer look at the photo above, you noticed that I also picked up a few new colours! I purchased some Sparkling Bronze Magatamas, Light Caramel Ceylon Delicas, and Opaque Cream Aurora Borealis Delicas. I don't usually buy many Delicas because they're pricey, but they come in so many beautiful colours that it's hard to resist. I'm going to use the Delicas for layering over the shell color on the upper half of the sub, and tail piece. I think it will add some much needed sparkle.

Then, I'm going to mix the bronze-coloured Magatamas in with the rest of my yellows to bead the bottom edge of the submarine. Since this piece is 1'', I think I have to bead the edges. Simply covering it with Ultrasuede or felt would take away from the piece. In addition, I also plan to layer the red on each of the scopes.

So, even though it seems like the beadwork is almost finished, it's really not. But, that's okay. While I work on that, I'll also be thinking about how I want to finish this piece. It needs a blue background. That much I know, but should it be beaded or not... It also needs a small propeller on the lower part of the tail, as well as a red railing around the scopes of the sub. I haven't figured out how I'm going to create any of those things... at least not yet... :0