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This Turtle was a lot of fun. I found two antique brass buttons of a Honey Bee. I usually attach my center piece and bead around it. This provided a unique challenge because of the legs and the wings extending out above the beadwork. So what I did was bead one row around the button and removed the button to finish the beadwork. Once I finished beading, I attached the button permanently at the center of the beaded concentric circles.

I am an enrolled member of "the" Oneida Nation and a descendent of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. My mother taught me how to bead on a loom at the age of five. She taught me to include an intentional flaw in my beadwork to symbolize that we are all human beings and we all make mistakes. All my work includes an intentional flaw. I eventually taught myself the appliqué style of beading. I take thousands of tiny glass beads and sew them onto a variety of materials to make a statement not only as art but to preserve the history and culture of my ancestors. I make traditional and contemporary Native American beadwork. My beadwork is a story of beliefs, of art, of commerce. You can enjoy the beadwork as art but behind the art is a story....