Throwback Thursday; Beads

I've been so busy working lately, there hasn't been time to complete any quilts. I need to finish quilting the project I was working on at our last retreat: a comfort quilt that I'm going to donate to our guild's stockpile. (When a need comes up, then we have quilts handy to give away.) I ended up hurting my shoulder when I was doing free motion quilting for eleven hours straight. Now that the shoulder has been given a rest for the past few weeks, I should be able to finish the quilt when some spare time eventually comes along. In the meantime, there's Throwback Thursday. :) When I was a kid, I was fascinated with beads and made all kinds of things with them. Every Saturday, Mom would tell me to clean up my room. I'd start cleaning and organizing, but then I'd get distracted by some beads or a craft item. Then I'd end up sitting on the floor in a pile of debris, starting a project. Mom would keep after me until the room was picked up a little, but it never did get thoroughly tidied up. I was too much of a dreamer and a creator to live like "normal" people did. This is a picture of an unfinished bead project that I made when I was a kid. It had been laced onto a bead loom but for some reason was taken off. Too long ago to remember the details.