At the moment my mind is filled with ideas, but none of them seem to be coming to fruition. This is leading me to jump from one project to another with no satisfactory outcome. I'm finding it hard at the moment to keep my concentration and focus on one idea at a time and seem to spend all my days flitting from one thing to another.

Many of these ideas come as I lie in bed at night, and I convince myself I will remember them in the morning, or as I'm walking somewhere with no pen and paper to scribble down the sure to be amazing creations I have dreamt up. So I'm constantly worried that I am forgetting these ideas as soon as I am having them, so today I have the urge to to try and 'log' some of them before they disappear from my mind, forever lost.

I am hoping this will also spur me on to actually get on and bead one of them!

Some things I am thinking about (some have got as far as samples, some are sketches and some are simply vague ideas floating around in my mind):

• Onye plus one (or two, or three) I would love to really ramp this up and add extra rows of rivolis. Not sure this will work so need to get my rivolis out...
• St Brides pendant. I really want to work on an octagonal pendant with a lift-off lid, similar to Geometric Secret, but with a few sneaky changes. The idea of an octagon has been in my mind for years but the project being inspired by St Brides is only since March
• A beaded key. Something like a big skeleton key in metallic beads, getting the right beads to make it look old would be a bonus. I always remember my dad having a drawer of keys he had collected over the years 'just in case'. He is a lover of old furniture and we would spend weekends trawling markets and auctions and, in my memory, whenever he found a cabinet or drawer that had a long lost key he was always confident he would have just the right one for it. I own a lovely key with a lampwork bead on it made by Keiara Wells and on Monday at the We Make London shop I bought a key brooch made by Shan Annabelle Valla (who also made the beautiful porcelain birds I showed you yesterday). To me keys evoke childhood memories of optimism, the feeling that adults could deal with any situation, the excitement of hidden treasures waiting to be discovered and enjoyment of craftmanship. Imagine being able to sum all that up in a simple piece of beadwork
• A large centrepiece using rivolis and square crystals such as I used in my Geometric Crystal Squares. I first need to sit down and draw out a plan of how they would interlink and the finished shape they would make. Or just dive in and see what happens!
• A long 'chain' necklace based on beaded rivolis and beaded sticks or stem (I know what I mean!)
• Elaborate rivoli earrings using some great findings I found last week. I saw a woman today wearing huge big circular earrings which looked to  feature some kind of cabochon and wirework. Though, as I only saw them from a distance, I suspect they were actually all just moulded plastic, but the effect was great and spurred me on to thinking I should actually bead the idea I have been floating around for a couple of years now
• A ring with a tube band and a long, multi-finger-covering piece of beadwork. I began doing this in Tucson but packed it away somewhere when it didn't go as I wanted immediately
• A detailed collar using Swarovski sequins as embellishment. This I have already begun but I need to sit down and finalise the design and how it will increase row by row etc
• A design based on paisley and/ or peacock feathers. This has also been in my mind for years but I have yet to sit down and bead it. Maybe one day soon. What's mainly putting me off is the realisation that I suspect what I want to make is actually phyiscally impossible. But who knows, I should give it a try

They're all the ideas I can think of from the top of my head!

After writing the lis,t the one my fingers are itching to bead (mainly because I hope it will be the easiest and I need something to work for me at the moment) is the chain necklace. So out come some Delicas and rivolis...

A few hours later you can see what I've produced. It's exactly what I was aiming for. There was a bit of time I wasn't sure it was going to work, but I got there in the end.

Except typically I've run out of the colour of Delicas I wanted to use. Mind you that might be a good thing as originally I wanted to bead it in gold but now I think a matte copper would be a good choice as the matte would let the crystals shine out and the copper is a more unusual choice and will work well with both the wire I'm using and the rivolis I want to use.

So Delica colour decided on, now I just need to figure out what colour size 15 to use. And of course despite hours of searching I'm having no luck tracking down copper coloured size 15s here in the UK. I can see this project taking a while to complete now as I begin a long search to find the perfect beads. I'm back to feeling thwarted at every turn