Bead Brain's Anonymous New Year's Resolution!

12 Steps for Bead Brains Anonymous (or not so Anonymous):
(based on the original 12 Steps as published by Alcoholics Anonymous)

1. We admit that we are powerless over our addiction - that our lives have become controlled by beads.
2. We have come to believe that a Power greater than ourselves can restore us to sanity
3. We will make a decision to turn our will and our beads over to the care of our organized pull out bin
4. We will make a searching and fearless inventory of beads and tools
5. We have admitted to ourselves and to our beading cohorts the exact nature of our imagination and obsession
6. We are entirely ready to learn to control and channel these creative defects of character
7. We humbly ask our family to never remove our Bead Stash
8. We will make a list of all persons we need to make jewelry for, and become willing to take classes to achieve this
9. We will make direct attempts to create such jewelry wherever possible, except where doing so could injure self or others
10. We will continue to take personal inventory of Bead Stash and when we don't have enough beads, we will make a trip to StonesNSilver Studio
11. We will seek through application and reflection to improve our conscious beading techniques, petitioning only for full knowledge through more classes of all ways to make jewelry for us and others and the power to carry that out
12. Having been captivated as the result of making jewelry (and other beadable objects), we will try to spread this obsession to other bead brains, and continue to practice these "blingy", flamboyant tendencies.

Created by Shelby Rich of StonesNSilver Studio and Bead Shop
Inspired by Kathy Cass of Columbus, TX