* The seed bead world has been offering me a lot of inspiration recently. Quite a bit has happened since my "absence". Especially, I have gotten inspired by a lot of bangles I have seen online. So, I have planned to start a bangle but I know that the first two rows of peyote with a bunch of beads can be difficult. But then I remembered that the Peyote Starter Strip can be helpful in this case. However, I have also discovered the books and the website called Contemporary Geometric Beadwork. I have ordered the books but I have only the digital versions at hand currently. In the books the MRAW bellyband is described. And I thought why not practise this technique and use it as something like a peyote starter strip at the same time.

* It has turned out that the beginning of the bangle has become too wide. Plus the colour scheme was too homogenous. So, I decreased the corresponding number of beads (see pictures below) and used this narrowed-down bangle als a peyote starter strip for a new beginning.