I had the good fortune to visit two of my best friends in Austin, Tex the weekend before last and while my one friend, Chris, was working, my other friend, Lisa, and I hit the bead stores. Lisa is one of the most talented beaded jewelry designers I know and specializes in Japanese beading. You [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Catholic rosary’
3-D Vintage Rosary
Posted in Prayer Beads of the World, Uncategorized, tagged Catholic rosary, rosary on July 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Lenten Prayers
Posted in Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Beliefnet, Bella, Catholic rosary, prayers on March 5, 2009 | 4 Comments »
First, let me say how touched I am by the flood of emails I’ve been receiving from readers and other friends and family who read my post about Bella. Many of them have contained the most lovely pet prayers – some which had me in quite a puddle of tears – that I will share [...]
Inauguration Prayers
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, Prayers For Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Anne Graham Lotz, Brad Hirschfield, Catholic rosary, Gene Robinson, inaugural prayers, Joseph Lowery, prayer beads, Rajan Zed, Rick Warren, Samuel Rodriguez on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
As the daily news gets worse and worse, I keep thinking back to the hopefulness of the inauguration, especially to the beautiful prayers of Rev. Gene Robinson, Rev. Rick Warren and Rev. Joseph Lowery. I have also been inspired and comforted by the prayers of Jewish, Hindu and other Christian leaders who wrote inaugural [...]
Baha’i Prayer Beads and the Catholic Rosary – One User’s Perspective
Posted in Prayer Bead Makers, Prayer Beads of the World, tagged Baha'i prayer beads, Catholic rosary on January 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Happy New Year all! I am sorry for the long time, no blog. I have been down with flu this whole week and am now behind in work, housework and everything else. Ugh.
A couple of days ago, I received a very nice comment from a man named Larry Gray in response to my much earlier [...]
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 »
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 [...]
Paper Prayer Beads
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Bead for Life, Catholic rosary, prayer beads on May 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Prayer Bead Article
Posted in Prayer Beads of the World, Uncategorized, tagged Catholic rosary, Muslim subha, prayer beads on May 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week, I was interviewed by my friend and colleague David Yonke, religion reporter for The Toledo Blade, about the book and prayer beads in general for an article he is very kindly writing pegged to the trunk show of my prayer beads at Bonita Bead Boutique in Maumee, Ohio. David mentioned that his [...]
Carolyn’s Rosary
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Baubles and Beads, Catholic rosary, prayer beads on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Easter Vigil
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Catholic rosary, prayer beads, Protestant rosary, sacraments on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Saturday night I attended the Easter Vigil service at St. Jerome’s Catholic Church in El Cerrito, Calif. to see my friend Carolyn become a Catholic. Carolyn, who is in her sixties (I hope she won’t mind my saying that!) decided sometime in the last year that she wanted to become a member of the church [...]
Good Friday Prayer Bead Prayers
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Catholic rosary, Good Friday, Phyllis Tickle, prayer beads on March 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
How I would love to go and sit in a church or other place of sanctuary and meditation today and work my prayer beads. Good Friday has always been one of my favorite days in the church calendar. Is that weird? It is such a somber day. I think it is among my favorites because [...]
