My first beading class!

So, last month I was looking into a beading class. I thought, I'm self-taught, I should probably learn how to do this for real! ha. Well, I later get a groupon in my email for this new bead store by my house... the classes were like 30-40 bucks - way beyond my unemployed budget. But, for $10 - I got to go finally! The Colorado Bead Company is on Colfax near the Ogden. They have only been open for 6 weeks, and told me that with their Groupon special, they sold 700 classes! I was expecting to go in and have a HUGE crowd, but the room was one table with 6 chairs! So intimate! They are so full on most all of their classes and have added a class for almost every single night just to keep up! Wouldn't that be fun to open a business like that and just have it explode? The owner is my age, too - just seems amazing! And how fun to do your hobby all day!? I would love that! I kinda wish I had the money or the knowledge to be able to do something like that myself actually!


Anyway, I get there and there is the one "know it all" in the class who is way too advanced, the one person that has no visual coordination, the one REALLLLYYY Slow lady, the one girl that asks questions the WHOLE time, the old lady that has no idea what she's doing, and of course the one you get along with. Haha.. The one I got along with actually lives and runs 2 businesses right down the block from where my mom lives! What a small world!


Well, We just strung a simple necklace and made matching drop earrings, stuff I was thinking "oh i already know all this, maybe i shouldnt have taken this class" - but suprisingly, I learned a lot! Not that my old techniques weren't working, but the tools we used, the way she did the clasps, all so much more simple than all the stuff I was attempting to do on my own. And the earrings seemed like an even simpler task, and I totally learned new ways to do those too! Who thought that putting a bead on a pin and attaching it has so many variations in technique? haha.


Anyway, made a small beaded necklace with matching earrings with some beads I had bought and mixed in some other beads a friend gave me - I like the way it looks, but might offer it to my little sister. I know she would love the colors!
All in all, so glad I went, here is some pictures i took during and after. I need a bead board now!!