Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book on April 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I am often a very lucky girl. About six weeks ago, as I was marketing Bead One, Pray Too to independent bead stores, I received a call from Ann Tristan, co-owner with her identical twin sister Anita, of Bonita Bead Boutique in Maumee, Ohio. Ann thought the book sounded like a good fit for the [...]
Posted in Prayer Beads of the World, Uncategorized, tagged Lutheran prayer beads, Pearls of Life on April 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Last time we explored a single form of prayer beads, we looked at those used by Baha’is. Really, no rhyme or reason here - I just feel like exploring the Pearls of Life next.
The Pearls of Life - sometimes called The Wreath of Life - are one of the newer forms of prayer beads. They [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pearls of Life on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
I have been happily busy the last two weeks with my freelance work and some of it has really paid off - if not in $$$ then in notoriety. On Monday, a story I wrote for Religion News Service on the history of the religious polygamists in Texas ran in USAToday and about a [...]
Posted in Prayer Beads of the World, tagged Paternosters on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
Hey, if you haven’t been there in a while, visit the blog Paternosters. Blogmistress Chris Laning recently came back from a two week trip to Europe and has some interesting posts about historical rosaries she saw there. Also, check out her posts on a two-day rosary making workshop she took in Leiden - hate her!!!! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
What a nice way to start a Monday! In my email queue this morning was this post about “healing beads” for children from Beading Daily, a publication of Interweave Press, which publishes Beadwork magazine.
The story is about the Children’s Healing Arts Project, which brings beading projects to children and their families in hospitals. It is [...]
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, Prayer Bead Makers, tagged prayer beads, prayer bracelets on April 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
As I wrote in an earlier post, a couple of weeks ago I attended the national conference of the Prayer Quilt Ministry in Dallas, Texas. The two-day meeting had talks, field trips and break-out sessions. One of those sessions was on making prayer bead bracelets and was conducted by a beautiful young woman named Allison, [...]
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged healing beads, Pearls of Life on April 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A couple of nights ago, “Deborah J.” left a wonderful comment on my posting about Baha’i prayer beads in which she mentioned becoming inspired by Bead One, Pray Too to make a set of “healing beads” for a friend. I emailed Deborah back and asked if she would share a picture and a description of [...]
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged Anglican rosary, creativity, prayer beads on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I want you to meet a young prayer bead maker, Andrea Cueva, the 17-year-old daughter of my friends Kathy and Bob Cueva. I have known the Cuevas for about four years, since I began working on the book Fabric of Faith, which was about Prayers & Squares, the prayer quilt ministry. Kathy is the president [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book on April 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I must have been an extra good girl lately because the good stuff just keeps on a-comin’ my way. Diane Gilleland, the brains behind CraftyPod just did the most lovely spread and review of both Bead One, Pray Too and Fabric of Faith. What I most liked about her review is that she hones right [...]
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged creativity, prayer beads, spirituality on April 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Be sure and check out the Friday, April 4 podcast at CraftyPod. Host “Sister Diane” interviews Amy Kleene, an artist who makes altars, altar cloths, prayer beads and prayer boxes for people. My favorite part of the interview was Amy’s discussion of creating a sacred space - how it is different for each person, but [...]
