| No need to have to make a book. Go to your local craft store and buy an already made book, make an embroidery piece and glue it on. Makes a great gift. | |  |
First I did Peyote Stitch, then left it behind and fell in love with bead embroidery. I like to mix the embroidery with freeform macrame and book making.
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 | | Each book has at least 8 projects and are from beginning to advanced. Projects incorporate the use of beads, crystals, serpentine, fiber, ribbon, and interesting tidbits. There are 32 pages, full color, with lots of pictures and illustrations (I'm a picture person). |
 | | As I create new projects, I am putting them on my web site so that you can buy the instructions individually. When you purchase them, I will send them to you via email in either a PDF form or JPEG and you can print them off at home! |
 | | Many of the necklaces are from my books, either the project, or a variation of the project, but some are just necklaces that I needed to make - you know how that is! |
 | | I love wearing bracelets and most of these are in my books. Look through them to see ideas of what you can do. |
 | | Besides macrame, I also do Peyote Stitch jewelry, bead embroidery and handmade books (that have macrame and embroidery on them). |
 | | I have always loved to draw. So much so, I went to college and got a Fine Arts Degree with an emphasis on drawing. Drawing has always helped me to get through life and has led me to my mostof painting. |
 | | My daughter, Gretchen, who ownes Piece of Mind Beads in Sacramento, gave me some really nice wire tools for my birthday. Then her family, my husband and I went on a cruise to Mexico and she brought her tools, wire and some crystals. We sat on the pool deck and she showed me how to do wire work. |
 | | I've done paintings since I was in high school, but watercolor is my very favorite. I have many florals, but I also paint reflections, Koi and portraits. Over the years I have been in several galleries and my paintings have sold internationally. |
 | | We visited Svalbard, Norway this summer, which is a group of islands north of Norway on the National Geographic ship Explorer. We were 530 nautical miles from the North Pole. The weather was cold, but absolutely wonderful (after all, it was over 100 degrees at home). |
| | www.kristinebuchanan.com
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| I have a Fine Arts Degree and have worked in many media including watercolor. I discovered beading through my daughter and have enjoyed applying the same aspects of color, motion, and perspective design that I learned in my formal education and over 25 years of painting and drawing to jewelry design.
I have taught beading and micro macrame at national shows, retail stores and bead societies throughout the United States and the United Kingdom for more than 15 years. I have also written 4 “how to” books on Micro Macrame, which have sold over 15,000 copies worldwide.
My watercolors hang in private collections in Hawaii, Texas, Australia, California, Washington, Arizona, New York and Florida. I have been fortunate to be accepted at many juried shows and have won numerous awards. My paintings have shown at several one and two-person shows in Bay Area galleries, including Olive Hyde and Adobe. I have sold through galleries in Maui, Napa Valley, Sonoma, Carmel and Durango, Colorado.
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