Blog Spotlight: Beads for Brains 365

If you’ve been following along on Inspirational Beading over the past several months, you know that there’s nothing I enjoy more than a good challenge. Whether it’s entering a single piece into a competition, or creating a set of personal beading goals, I’m up for it. Not only are beading challenges great for creativity, but they can make for excellent blogging as well.

Enter Beads for Brains: 365, a beading challenge inspired by Noah Scalin, the mastermind behind the Skull a Day project, and author of 365: Make Something Every Day and Change Your Life! I thought that making a project every day for a month, or once a week for a year, was a great challenge. Imagine beading every day and sharing your experiences, trials and triumphs with readers in a countdown blog for one full year!

The blogger and bead champ, Mandy, is determined to master the art of beading through this challenge, and is using a variety of on and offline resources to tackle new techniques like tubular square stitch, and projects like Sue Jackson’s Fleur du jour, and the Bead Journal Project.

What I love about Beads for Brains: 365, is that readers of any skill level can learn along with Mandy, discovering new techniques to try, and finding unique insights into bead and stitch styles from a trial-and-error point of view. If you’re just getting started with beadwork, or you just want to follow along as one beader blossoms, this blog is worth a visit!

A few other beading gems to add to your reader:

Linda's Bead Blog and Meanderings
The Beadings and Buttons of Randomcreative
My Bead Journey
Backstory Beads

And some of my favorite craft and style blogs of late:

Elegant Musings
Broke and Beautiful
Already Pretty
Honestly...WTF

What have you been reading? If you’ve got a favorite must-read creative blog, share a link in the comments!

Blog Spotlight is a special tribute to my wonderful readers. Featured blogs are chosen from the previous months comments.
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