Hello! I hope you are all enjoying your summers.
I've been working on redoing the layout of my home page. There's a link at the end of the newsletter, and going out a lot with my family to enjoy the weather. It's been in high 60s low 70s here in Anchorage, and if you know an Alaskan, you know we bust out the shorts at 50 degrees.

Here's the latest article from the Beadwork site at BellaOnline.com.

Differences Between 1 and 2 Drop Peyote Stitch
How choosing your graph can affect your pattern, and why sometimes using a non-standard stitch can be better.

http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art62202.asp

We went out to Potter's Marsh the other day, and saw a bald eagle. You can see a really bad picture of it here.
http://shala.addr.com/newsletter/6-07-09/eagle_060709.jpg I've been trying to convince my husband that as much as I love my camera for taking pictures of beadwork, I really need one I can take pictures of birds that far away with.
We also saw geese, and as you'll see in today's article, ravens.
http://shala.addr.com/newsletter/6-07-09/6-7-09geese.jpg
http://shala.addr.com/newsletter/6-07-09/6-7-09raven.jpg

My homepage, which does have some free bead patterns and other things on it hadn't had a new layout in a long time, I was still using the same banner from 1998. So I spent the last couple of weeks working on a new layout. You can see that at
http://shala.addr.com

Please visit beadwork.bellaonline.com for even more great content about Beadwork.

To participate in free, fun online discussions, this site has a community forum all about Beadwork located here -

http://forums.bellaonline.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=postlist&Board=400

I hope to hear from you sometime soon, either in the forum or in response to this email message. I thrive on your feedback!

Have fun passing this message along to family and friends, because we all love free knowledge!

Shala Kerrigan, Beadwork Editor
http://beadwork.bellaonline.com

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