Thinking of beads 🌸

Choices are hard but once a definite choice shows up – it gets easier.  Having natural colors is most common choice; so I picked these colors.  The hard part is which color?

Deciding colors
Oh, it snowing in Fairbanks Alaska.  I didn’t run from the cold- I ran to the beads at “Beads & Things.  ❤️🌸

Author: Nasek'taq

Merna Wharton “Nasek’taq” is Yup'ik from Akiacuaq (Akiachak) lives in Anchorage Alaska. Merna is an Alaska Native artist, poet, traditional and contemporary seamstress, carver, gatherer of greens and berries, and loves the outdoors of Alaska! Merna enjoys finding art in natural elements and shares her experiences through her website, nasektaq.com. Merna crafts to preserve her culture and art and shares her worldview from a remote village Yup’ik girl’s perspective with a glimpse of life in Alaska in her writing and poems. More information about her art can be found at https://www.rasmuson.org/49writers/artist-profile/merna-wharton/.