I got to visit with a friend today and show off my beading, which was fun and very refreshing. I love designing things, but my execution can be a bit choppy. My knots tend to slip, my string has a habit of breaking--you get the idea. I also have the bad habit of buying beads that I never use. But in my defense, a lot of the beads I do use only come in sets of far too many for the projects I do. I fixed a rosary that I made and secured it with superglue (which is now all over my fingers, probably for a long while). It's gone through some pretty vigorous testing and I think that it's secure enough to have blessed. I get to go to Adoration and Mass tonight and I think I'll bring it there and see if I can stalk a priest, in the words of my old youth minister.
I finally told my Mom something I'd been holding in for a long while, and that's been a relief, even though I for whatever reason feel a little sick thinking about it. She reacted really well. Now onto Dad!
Back to beading, I have a lot of beads that I love so much in potential that I don't want to use them. Do you know that feeling? It's kind of like Christmas morning, when the anticipation is better or almost better than the gifts themselves. Tomorrow I'm going to look at beads and spend a fun day with, oddly enough, the friend I saw today. I'm really looking forward to it and I hope that it goes well and neither of us gets hit by fatigue halfway through. I got wiped at around 10:45 this morning and came home to rest.
I have a book to recommend, For the Love of God by Lucy Kaylin. It is a non-fiction book about American Nuns and sisters and is quite frankly a fascinating book. While it is by no means from a Catholic perspective, it was a really fascinating study of an often-stereotyped group of women.
I tried to teach myself to tie a Chotki, but I think I'll just have to make a beaded one if that's something I decide to do. Frankly I wasn't going to use it for the Jesus Prayer but for the Chaplet of the Blessed Sacrament. But I think you heard a lot about prayer in the last post and I won't go on about that.
That's it for now. Thanks for reading!
Kfroguar
I finally told my Mom something I'd been holding in for a long while, and that's been a relief, even though I for whatever reason feel a little sick thinking about it. She reacted really well. Now onto Dad!
Back to beading, I have a lot of beads that I love so much in potential that I don't want to use them. Do you know that feeling? It's kind of like Christmas morning, when the anticipation is better or almost better than the gifts themselves. Tomorrow I'm going to look at beads and spend a fun day with, oddly enough, the friend I saw today. I'm really looking forward to it and I hope that it goes well and neither of us gets hit by fatigue halfway through. I got wiped at around 10:45 this morning and came home to rest.
I have a book to recommend, For the Love of God by Lucy Kaylin. It is a non-fiction book about American Nuns and sisters and is quite frankly a fascinating book. While it is by no means from a Catholic perspective, it was a really fascinating study of an often-stereotyped group of women.
I tried to teach myself to tie a Chotki, but I think I'll just have to make a beaded one if that's something I decide to do. Frankly I wasn't going to use it for the Jesus Prayer but for the Chaplet of the Blessed Sacrament. But I think you heard a lot about prayer in the last post and I won't go on about that.
That's it for now. Thanks for reading!
Kfroguar
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