I’m A Keeper

Before you go off thinking about relationships, ‘keeper’ in this context is just a nicer way of saying I’m a hoarder. About 5 years back my neighbor was giving away one of those corridor curtains with strings of wooden beads the length of a door. She turned to me and ask me if I want it because everyone knows I’m a keeper and I gladly accepted. At the time I had no idea what I was going to do with all those beads but I sat down and patiently took each bead off the curtain and put it in a bag for storage. A few weeks ago my mother threatened to throw it away so I took the bag and decided to make a portrait of a humming bird hovering by a flower.

It was going well, I knew what I wanted to do but coming closer to the end I got into some difficulty sticking beads into small spaces but I made do. When it was done I was told that the bird wasn’t easy to decipher from the background so I decided to put another row of beads just over the bird so that it literally popped. For the frame I thought that any neutral colour would just blend in so I used blue which compliments the wooden beads and then I decorated it with more beads and bamboo because there just wasn’t enough on the inside. This is proof that ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’.      

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