Beading and learning and repurposing

These are two motifs from a beaded bracelet kit.

My motto this year is "use it!" so when I ran across this kit bought two years ago I thought, "don't store it, use it!"

 so I gathered my little beading dish, instructions, fireline pattern, glasses, kit beads, and courage to follow someone else's pattern. I got together with one of my beading friends Cindy, took a deep breath, looked over the instructions, threaded the needle and began.
I made one motif, we put our heads together and realized I had missed some important instructions.
(blink, blink) (do I abandon the project? hide the evidence deep in the studio? Undo the beads back to the mistake? )
I carefully undid the beads, and miraculously finished two motifs, and joined them with a motif before I gave up for the day!

Lessons learned:
1. not all patterns are clear although this one really is done well
2. go ahead and start, you can do it!
3. have a friend nearby for support
4. Learning is a good thing. Doing something you've never done, a good thing.
I used fireline and double holed cylinder beads for the first time, and wove the pattern for the first time.

I carted my stuff along in this bag...

Thank you to Lancome for the freebie!

It's silver and black leather like and a great size.

I didn't really like the Lancome brand on it however, sorry to them...

It occurred to me I could place one of my ornaments over it...

so all I have to do now, is sew in on to have another cool tote, more like me.

Repurposed.

And I'm "using" a bag and an embellishment.

BTW, my friend Joanne just did a great post showing many miniature quilts so take a look
http://teatimegardening.blogspot.com/2016/03/mini-quilt-show.html