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 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 [...]
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged prayer beads, World Mala on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Poking around on the internet the other day, I came across a blog called “The Mala Prayer Bead Project.” The blog, which just got started last December, is the work of someone who calls herself Joy Found. According to her profile, Joy is a 38-year-old single mother whose spirituality is a blend of eastern and [...]
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged Neo-Paganism, pagan prayer beads, prayer beads on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »
I first met Raven, who is 42, when I was writing a story for Religion News Service about Neo-Pagans who use prayer beads and rosaries as part of their practice. The story eventually ran in the Washington Post and on Beliefnet.com. Raven has been making and selling Pagan prayer beads of many stripes for about [...]
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged Anglican rosary on December 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is a new one on me! I was googling around and through some odd combination of search terms, I can across the website of someone named Karen who makes many different forms of prayer beads, including ( drum roll please . . . .) a “motel rosary.” According to her website, Karen was driving [...]
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, tagged Anglican rosary, Catholic rosary, Lutheran on November 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I just came across this wonderful post by someone called “Gunfighter” on his blog, “The View From Here.” Gunfighter is a law enforcement officer and Lutheran who, for a hobby, makes Anglican/Episcopal and Catholic rosaries. When he posted photos of some of his creations on his blog, people encouraged him to try and sell them. [...]
