June is the month of weddings (yeah – I was married in May) and so I thought some of you out there might be interested in making a special set of prayer beads for the brides-to-be in your lives.
As I have a friend getting married soon (yeah – not in June) I decided to make [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Bridal Prayer Beads
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican prayer beads, Anglican rosary, bridal prayer beads, Catholic rosary, prayer bead making, Protestant prayer beads, Protestant rosary, rosary making on June 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bead for Life Party
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bead for Life, prayer beads on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Know what I was doing a week ago today? I was hosting my Bead for Life party! I wrote about how I found out about Bead for Life, and how I made a set of prayer beads from some of their loose beads in this post.
I cannot tell you how easy and fun this party [...]
Crimping Tutorial
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged crimp beads, prayer beads on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick post today as I have to go down to San Jose and cover those pesky Presbyterians for Religion News Service.
This came in my inbox today – a tutorial on how to use crimp beads from Beading Daily. Crimping is deceptively simple – only need one bead and one tool and two movements, [...]
U.S. Religious Landscape Study
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pew Forum, prayer, ReligionLink, U.S. Religious Landscape Survey on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released the second part of its U.S. Religious Landscape Study today, a broad survey of the way we Americans think about and live out our various faiths, including those who profess no faith.
I am a national correspondent for ReligionLink, and as such, was given an advance copy [...]
Praying with All Saints
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged All Saints Episcopal Church, Episcopal prayer beads, prayer for beads on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Sunday morning, before my husband and I piled our son’s undergraduate detritus in our van and headed home from Pasadena, I stopped into All Saints Episcopal Church for the 9 a.m. worship service. I took with me my set of Episcopal prayer beads that I made at the Sea Ranch – the ones made [...]
Shawn’s Graduation
Posted in Uncategorized on June 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is the last post I will write on my son’s Shawn’s graduation. It has NOTHING TO DO WITH PRAYER BEADS, but is for my friends and family. So, if you want to read about prayer beads, skip this post.
We woke up this morning all excited and ready to go. A quick breakfast and the [...]
Shawn’s Graduation – Day One
Posted in Uncategorized on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This post will depart from the usual subject of this blog – prayer beads – and chronicle the night before my eldest son’s graduation. So if you are friends and family, keep reading. If not, you’re welcome to read, but there ain’t nothin’ about prayer beads in here. Tune in tomorrow night, as I have [...]
Not a Great Amazon Review
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged pagan prayer beads on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
S.L. Mehegan of upstate New York wrote the following review of Bead One, Pray Too on amazon.com:
“The information in this book is quite good, but it lacks pictures and examples of different prayer beads. I also felt there could have been more information on Pagan beading and examples of prayers.”
I can’t agree with her on [...]
Bobby Kennedy and the Rosary
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged rosary on June 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Just wanted to make sure you all saw this brief piece in the New York Times on Sunday. It describes the experience of a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel who saw Bobby Kennedy’s assassination and placed a rosary in the candidate’s hands. I just thought it was a very nice way to remember the event [...]
Double Happiness
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, Book Reviews, tagged Art Bead Scene. book review, prayer beads on June 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I was away in Los Angeles, I received an email from Heather Powers, the highly creative brain behind the Art Bead Scene blog and creator of some gorgeous, lust-worthy beads. She let me know that she had posted a review of Bead One, Pray Too on her site and I am so pleased! It [...]
