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Beading Bead-a-Day: 2008 Day-to-Day Calendar

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Coming up with 365 beading ideas must be hard, but I was quite disappointed by some of the projects in the 2007 calendar (a peyote weave motorbike?!). The author's website is referenced a lot but on visiting it I found there wasn't much there. The calendar is a great idea - I hope it continues to improve.

I was a disappointed with this calendar. I was expecting a 365 page a day thing with small individual daily projects. However, most of them are multi step projects that are several pages over several days. So far all I've seen are advanced crocheting and stitching projects, neither of which I like to do. Even if I did like those types of projects, the designs are hideously ugly and I would never make them. Another thing I don't like about this calendar is it's not bound like a regular calendar where you tear a page off. Instead all the pages are loose and fit inside a holder that the box turns into. The whole design is weird and I can't quite figure out how to keep the pages in there and organized properly.

It's only the beginning of February and I hate this calendar already!

I bought this calendar because I'm always on the lookout for new jewelry project ideas. So far, I'm disappointed. Don't be fooled by the pictures on the box. Those projects are few and far between; however, if you're a beadweaver, you're going to love this calendar. This is mostly a beadweaving calendar with a few other bead-jewelry projects interspersed among the peyote stitch, brick stitch, and similar items. I've peeked at pages that are still weeks ahead, and beadweaving is not just a January theme.

The title of the calendar is misleading...This is actually approximately three or four projects a week, with the instructions for each spread out over multiple days. This includes a couple of weeks devoted to foundation skills, also with the instructions spread out over several days. Since the foundation skills are already included on cards, I don't see the point of also having them repeated (the identical pages) within the calendar. I wish these calendar pages had been used for actual projects...Maybe projects that don't involve sewing seed beads into painful patterns.

If you love to sew your jewelry projects with a needle and lots of teeny-tiny beads, this is the calendar for you.

Beading Bead-a-Day: 2008 Day-to-Day Calendar

I received the 2007 version as a Christmas gift and was hooked from the beginning. You get 365 days of instructions, eye candy and wonderful projects. It's not just beading, there's wireworking, knitting and crocheting, applique, and even bead making. Something for everyone.

For your favorite beader - this is a must give gift!

The projects pictured on the box will invite you on an inspirational journey through 2008. This next year has 366 days so you have a whole extra day to bead! There are projects in polymer clay, including a mokume gane bangle with pearls, woven bracelets, wirework, and many other projects. Make a resolution to finish a project each day in 2008.

This is the third year I have purchased this calendar. Everyday there is a new project, some for beginners, and some for advanced bead workers.
I would give this as a gift to any bead lover.