A Few Steps to Help You Achieve Beading Inspiration and Aesthetic Sense

1. It helps you get closer to defining your own personal sense of style. This is not meant to be a method of limiting yourself, but a means to extracting the essence of your artistic vision. The more you know about your taste in color and design the more likely you are to do work that truly pleases yourself and others.

2. This collection of exciting images will be a godsend to you on those days when you just can't seem to get those ideas flowing.

Tip: Use a three ring binder and add some plain paper for jotting down ideas and sketches as you have them. Sometimes it seems like we come up with all the ideas we could possibly use when we're busy doing something else.

• Keep a Notebook or Journal of Inspirational Images/Articles.
• Look at other people's beadwork; write down what you like/don't like about it.
• Make swatches of beads to see how the colors looks when worked.
• Test bead colors next to each other to see how they are affected.
• Do as good a job as you can on each piece, but know when to stop.
• Don't be afraid to start over if the project is just not working well.
• Take time to learn a new beading stitch or technique.
• Remember to be critical of the beadwork - not of yourself