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 [...]
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged crimp beads, prayer beads on June 25, 2008 | No Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, Book Reviews, tagged Art Bead Scene. book review, prayer beads on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book Expo, prayer beads, prayer books, Stephanie Pearl McPhee, Yarn Harlot on June 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the long day – the big book slog. We have to be at Book Expo early (for us) and my Publishers Weekly editor, Lynn Garrett, has a day of meetings before moderating a 4 p.m. panel on the changing world of American evangelicalism. I’ll blog separately about that panel later.
I got to the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Book Expo, prayer beads on May 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Going on all the time here are Book Expo Educational Programs, panels and talks for booksellers and publishers on a variety of ways to sell books better and sell better books. I am in one right now called “Steal This Book: Selling and Promoting Literature on the Edge.” I came because I thought I might [...]
Posted in Making Prayer Beads, tagged Anglican rosary, Bead for Life, Catholic rosary, prayer beads on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in My Prayer Bead Practice, tagged Anglican rosary, prayer, prayer beads, Sea Ranch on May 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My husband and I just returned from The Sea Ranch, where we went to celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary for four nights. We did not have internet access while we were there, or cellphones (yeah!), so it was a very low tech long weekend. But I did take my computer and wrote and stored some [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged prayer beads on May 11, 2008 | No Comments »
This must be my lucky weekend! Not only did Bead One, Pray Too appear in an article in The Toledo Blade (see last post!) but it was also in an article in The Grand Rapids Press - on the same day! Thank you Juanita Westaby for a great article, and thanks to my friend and [...]
Posted in Bead One Pray Too: About the Book, tagged prayer beads on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Yeah! Here is the article about the trunk show of the prayer beads from Bead One, Pray Too currently on display at Maumee, Ohio’s Bonita Bead Boutique. The article appears in today’s Toledo Blade. Thank you, David Yonke, religion reporter extraordinaire! I love the part of the story about the sisters, Anita and Ann, who [...]
Posted in Prayer Beads of the World, Uncategorized, tagged Catholic rosary, Muslim subha, prayer beads on May 10, 2008 | No Comments »
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 [...]
