Jeff Russell

I'm glad you found it helpful and motivating! I agree, there are definitely pluses and minuses, but overall, I appreciated its attitude of "just do the work".

I have to confess, I had no idea you could make beads out of roses - how does that work? Is it the stems? Buds?

And thank you for the kind offer! So far, I've been "feeling it out" with the beads - the main beads are yew (or at least claim to be), which I chose because some folks associate the Germanish World Tree (Yggdrasil) with the yew, the spacer beads are a dark-ish green jade, chosen because it looks a bit like green apples, and between each "nonade" (nine-bead grouping, equivalent of a decade in a traditional rosary), I have blue lapis lazuli beads, chosen for a color reminiscent of deep wells. So, as you can see, so far I don't have a ton of plant-based beads, but maybe that's something I ought to reconsider.

Do you have any recommendations for learning more about plant-based beads besides wood?

Thanks,
Jeff