Progress---But Still More to Come

I worked on my beadwork quite hard yesterday and finished the foreground, beginning work on the stars.  The entire starfield needs to be beaded, but this is random and non-patterned.  It still is a large expanse of fabric, though, that needs to be covered.  I like the way that it is looking, though, it has a subtle sparkle that will augment the glue-on Swarovski crystals that will also be placed eventually.  I want to take one more close look at the cosmography of Middle Earth before I glue on the crystals - I actually want to have the "Sickle" and perhaps the "Warrior" constellations pictured in my sky. 

I also wired up my etched copper yesterday.  After the disk had been cruel to my wire twice before by breaking my wire when I tried to tighten the spans, I had grabbed my round needle file and filed each of the holes from both sides.  This time I had success and didn't break my wires.  So, it was a successful studio day and I'm ready to dive back into shop work later this morning.  I have enough remaining to do that I will still be carrying my project back and forth from work and trying to get one hour or a bit more of beading finished every morning.  Have a creative day!