About The Beads

MOoK (Making Order Out of Kaos) Pivots in 2025:

Questions? email:kd_bead@thebeadstylist.com

It's ALL About The Beads

February 2025: Please go to this important article about possible price gouging trend noticed with Miyuki Brand beads

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I'm so tempted to go into my story from the beginning, but although intesting, it's quite lengthy so I'll ask my Ai assistant to help me make it more focused before posting.

However, this part of the story must be told, or at least parts of it, because as I had to pivot and rely on my MOoK moto once again, part of which is to, regardless of how dower, or basically impossible a sitution is I force myself to find the positive application and go from there.

In this case the learning from losing all of my hard work, rebuilding my website and cleaning up social media platforms, I realized that my web hosting provider and I were not on the same page resulting in not only no longer getting traffic to my website, but also losing all of my data so I have to rebuild-oncee again.

Learning: Although I never liked the Corporate environment, I did learn a lot from working there for many years. There was this Spoke & Wheel mindset they were despearately trying to implement, which I though of recently while rebuiding. So instead of my website being my main hosting of data and operations, MOoK blog/newsletter will be transformed into the main hub; along with using the best of Google like Drive, and Workspace, to ensure ease of transition when scaling up and or refocusing onto additional pursuits.

I wish I had thought of it sooner, but that's my learning.

Vintage Peyote Stitch Bead Patterns are ONLY listed here for now and can be purchased by clicking on the link below each picture.

I uncovered a treasure trove of vintage beads, books, and buttons while organizing my supplies. I found several vintage Peyote stitch patterns, around 22 years old. Creating these seemingly simple patterns required knowledge of bead types that worked best for beaded bags. Pictured patterns required many beads, carefully chosen to avoid excess weight and to match the colors perfectly.

Surprisingly, these patterns are no longer available on selling platforms. Even if digitized, there's value in following the directions and sourcing the beads (or asking The Bead Stylist for help). Digitizing these patterns is challenging without expertise. However, you can create multiple bags in different colors from one base pattern.