Grumbly Beads??

Early this month, during his concert in Troy, NY; John Prine told a story about listening to his transistor radio (remember transistor radios? They were the size of a standard iPod but three times as thick and, thanks to the required 9-volt battery, ten times as heavy). He spoke of a Fats Domino song with a lyric he heard as "grumbly beads" until he read the sheet music and discovered that the actual words were "promise me". Prine went on to tell of a fan miss-hearing the "half an inch of water" lyric from his That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round as "a happy enchilada"...but that's off the subject.

When I heard the words Grumbly Beads all I could see were my countless tubes, boxes, bags and strings of beads urging me to get to it and make some of the projects that swirl in my head...this reminded me that I had resolved to start a beading blog in 2008 because (and I do realize this is a ridiculous leap of logic) a blog would force me to be more productive.

We'll see how it goes. So far, all it's done is given me yet another project idea--polymer clay grumbly beads.

Here are some preliminary sketches.