| Jeri Herrera | |
My name is Jeri Herrera. I am a single mom of 2, ages 18 and 6. While
working a full time job, I also run a bead business. Mostly I just love to bead! I have been doing this for 7 years. I have also done many other crafts, but have pretty much stopped doing everything else in my obsession with beads and beady things! I think there was a portion of my brain that was sleeping and came awake with a start at my first site of beads! Since then, I have been a lost cause, with beads in every room of the house, and the inability to go to places without finding out where every bead store in town is before leaving!
Recently, I had a bad day at work, and my 6 year old son came up and put his arm around me and asked me if I was unhappy. When I told him I had just had a rough day, he left the room, and came back with my
beading tray and bead case and told me to please bead something so that I would be happy!
With Christmas being my favorite holiday, I do a lot of hand beaded ornaments. Here in the Pacific Northwest, miniature trees that have been decorated are a very popular. This gave me the idea to bead miniature ornaments. So I took my knowledge of beading ornaments, and have spent the better part of this last year beading ornaments, 1 inch and smaller, to decorate a miniature tree. I have added or redone many of my ideas for large ornaments, as well as coming up with many ideas strictly for the miniature ornaments. This tree has 1 inch ornaments with bead covers, 1/2 inch ornaments, angel babies (for which I have provided instructions), beaded snowflakes, beaded garland and a
beaded skirt.
Hope you enjoy the tree! Have and wonderful and safe holiday season and remember:
Bead all that you can Bead!
Jeri Herrera
www.dbeadmama.com
Thank you so much Jeri! And now, come with me to look at this amazing Christmas Tree on Jeri's website Da Bead Mama. Don't miss the other goodies on her site, as well!
And, as an added bonus, Jeri has written out the instructions for her Beaded Angel Babies for us! Check them out, they are adorable!