Grandma Marilyn has been a crafter ever since she can remember. She started out with crocheting and other crafts. Late in 2005, she discovered beading. Grandma Marilyn started small making some ornaments and easy beading. She needed to have to have a pattern or she could not bead. Of course, all of her crafting had been that way ever since she could remember. She used to say that she did not have a creative bone in her body. With some encouragement from other beaders, she started doing harder and harder beading created by other bead designers. Her beaded jewelry can be found in Grandma Marilyn’s eCrater shop. Grandma Marilyn found some beading software and started playing with it coming up with some patterns that she beaded up and put up for sale. Glenda Payseno and Marie Starr started working on her self-esteem and convinced her to create some beading patterns and put them up for sale. Well, She can be proud of her accomplishments as a bead pattern designer as her bead patterns are now for sale in several shops online, as well as Amazon and CreateSpace. Because she was shown the way by other bead pattern designers, you can share in the beautiful bead patterns she has created.