Q: "How do you do that?" A: "One bead at a time."

Some signs that I was done with beadwork--that the artform was, for me, no more:

• I took my old beadwork website down
• No one in the beadwork world talks to me anymore
• I recently came thisclose to giving away all my beads and tools
• My beadwork software is so old that it won't install on this computer

So it came as a surprise to me, this urge to make something beady again. But I have a mission: a Serenity convention in November.

( A ten-inch circle of beadwork affixed to some garment or other is as far as I'm willing to go in costumed geekdom. )

Some signs that maybe beadwork lives again:

• This icon
• I just added "beads" and "beadwork" to my interests
• I'm going to the actual local bead store now.

It'll be like old times.