Beaded Globe Ornaments (CANCELED)

Sunday, December 15, 2024
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM - 4:00PM
Tuition: $72 Materials: $9
*Sliding scale pricing available*

Come and learn how to net a glass globe ornament using seed beads, just in time for the holidays! You will use seed beads, thread a beading needle and a provided pattern along with lots of patience to decorate a plain glass globe ornament. Basic class materials will be provided. However, please bring a matt to keep your beads contained as you work and another soft cloth to support your glass ornament to protect it from breaking.
The class will be split into two separate sections to have a break in between, so, be prepared for an all day event! We encourage students to bring a lunch, or be prepared to purchase it during the hour break.
After you get the basics down, you will be able to vary your colors and/or alter your pattern slightly to make more ornaments for yourself or gift your family and friends.
Prior beading experience is strongly encouraged. Having confidence in manual dexterity is a definite plus.

About the instructor: Daina Antanaitis is a self-taught beading artist who was drawn to beads in her early twenties. She was captivated by the diverse, rich, cultural, global manifestations of beads past and present. Daina started as most do, by stringing beads. Netting and looming on a little hand-made loom soon followed. She loved the texture, colors and effects that seed beads produced.
Daina moved to the Ely area with her son to work in the outdoors and never left. Over the next thirty-five years, between working, raising her son, meeting her husband and homesteading, she beaded as able.
Daina began beading on leather about twenty years ago, creating “bead paintings”. She also made pouches, shields and bags often as commemorative items for significant life events.
Daina continues to create with beads: netting, stitching, looming and embroidering. Size 11 seed beads remain her favorites. She continues to be inspired by: simple and purposeful living, the natural world, Native American beaded art and good books/stories that fuel her vivid imagination.