Today I am joining the Superstition Blog Hop. I have been so excited for this hop! Our hostess is Tammy Adams at Paisley Lizard. She made these beautiful black cat beads, and the first 13 people to sign up received a bead. Are you wondering why I am so excited? Well first, the beads have black cats on them, and then the hop is about superstitions. When I saw the reveal was on Friday, November 13th, (which is my birthday) - I had to sign up.
I was very lucky and was the last (13th) person to sign up. Tammy was so nice and sent me extra beads since I was lucky number 13. Here they are in the center, I haven't had a chance to make anything with them but I did pick out some beads to get started with.
I love the focal Tammy sent, it's beautiful and black cats have a special place in my heart. I have been lucky enough to be owned by two of them Onyx, who is at the Rainbow Bridge and Ninja, who is 6. Black cats are special, I love my other cats just as much but the black ones just seem to have more personality and a lot more attitude. Here is Ninja, in the doggybox.
He bosses the basset hounds around as much as they let him, and plays catch me if you can with them. He loves the dogs. He is a sweetheart and loves to lay on your lap and will even roll over for belly rubs (I think he learned that from the bassets). Onyx was very special, I miss him every day. He was an amazing jumper and could jump from the floor to the top of a door and run along the top of the door. He was not afraid of anything and had more personality than any cat I've ever known. Ninja looks just like him.
I am really superstitious, but it's more of a sports thing for me. I am a Cubs fan, and trust me we wrote the book on being superstitious. We brought a goat in to remove the curse at Wrigley Field! More than once! When they were in the playoffs this year I couldn't get up during the games. If I did, they lost, so I stayed put for the entire game. My cousins didn't wash their Cubs shirt until they lost against the Mets. (I would have done the same thing). I don't know many sports fans that aren't superstitious. Most people have a lucky shirt or shoes - something that they feel helps their team win the game. Cubs fans just take that a little farther. And we will win, next year.
I should probably show you Tammy's bead and what I did with it. Here it is, I asked for a cab, and I bezeled it with seed beads. I was working on a beaded necklace, but there was no way I would have finished it in time for the hop, so I did a chain with some really pretty Czech beads.
Here is the beaded necklace I am working on, I attached the chain with split rings so I can change them out when I'm done with the beaded necklace. The pattern for this is from the book Beadweaving, beyond the basics by Kassie Shaw. It's a great book.
I hope you like what I made, please take a look at what the other participants did with their beads, the link list is below. Thank you Tammy for hosting a wonderful hop and for the lovely beads!!
