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 [...]
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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, [...]
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The Sea Ranch, Monday morning . . . .
This morning, sitting in the window overlooking the ocean, I got out the packet of paper beads I ordered last month from Beads for Life. I am going to hold a Beads for Life party in June and I couldn’t wait till then to see what they [...]
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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, [...]
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First, let me apologize for the rotten pictures here. If anyone knows how I can get these pictures to appear on the blog in a larger size, please leave a comment in the space below. Okay . . .
Last week, I posted about Baha’i prayer beads - what they are and how they fit into [...]
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Eariler this week, I posted about going to see my friend Carolyn become a Catholic after 40 years of attending the Catholic church.
As a gift to commemorate her baptism, confirmation and first communion - taken all in one ceremony the night before Easter - I promised to make her a Catholic rosary, so today we [...]
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