My Pinwheel Bracelet

So here is my latest creation. It's taken me a while to get it posted but here it is. I had a little fun photo shopping the pictures this time. I think they turned out pretty cool though. The bracelet is a lot of fun to wear and because of all the colors I can wear it with a lot of different outfits.

Something for me!

Okay so I haven't made a whole lot lately and I decided to just make something for myself as I rarely do that anymore. So I bought a bunch of different Lucite cabs a while back thinking that they would turn into something cool one day and I finally got them out and started working with them. They are the blue and white ones in the picture above. I didn't want to bead them with just blue and white, so I went through my boxes of seed beads and picked out two colors that I thought really complimented them. The first is a delica seed bead called lined ruby/black.
The other is called opaque cactus luster.

I decided to bead the cabs with the two colors and soon realized that some of the cabs would also look good with a blue delica so I chose to use one called silver lined sapphire. I plan on weaving the cabs together some how to form a bracelet. So in the next few days I should be finished and I will post the final piece here.

Summer Corn

I recently made this necklace and earring set for my mother-in-law, as a gift for her birthday. I've noticed over the years that she enjoys wearing simple jewelry that is pleasing to the eye. So when I decided to make her a piece of jewelry, I knew that it would need to be something that she would enjoy wearing. It couldn't be something so extravagant that she would never wear it, yet I did want it to be a quality piece.

I decided to try the herringbone stitch in this piece because I have admired it for a while, but have never tried using it until now. Needless to say I love the herringbone stitch! Definitely a stitch I will be incorporating into other projects in the future. Both the necklace and the earrings were made with it. While the necklace uses the tubular herringbone, the earrings are made with a circular herringbone. For the colors I used a variety of delica beads including copper, gold, a wine color, and a rose tinted metal. The necklace is accented with gold and copper spacer beads and also rainbow amozonite. The necklace clasp is gold filled and the earring clasps are gold.

I'm Pregnant!

I know, I know, I haven't posted anything new in a while. I'm sorry. We went on vacation in June and when we got back I found out that I was pregnant. So, to make a long past 3 months short, I've just been to sick to even think about beading. Luckily I'm at my three month mark so hopefully I will be back to beading in no time. I have lots of projects that I can't wait to get started on once this morning sickness passes. So in the meantime I hope you enjoy the past work that I have done and I will be back up and beading soon.

Toni's Bracelet Completed

It's finished!!! Man am I glad it's done too. I finally finished sewing on the buttons for this piece last night. This bracelet was definitely a challenge for me. It was one of those projects where you just go at it and hit it from all directions until you get what you want. Toni had come to me with her idea of what she wanted out of this bracelet and I went to work on it. I feel like I went round and round with this thing, adding a flower or some beads here and there. Then I would just leave it and come back to it and add a little more until it looked right. I learned a lot from this project, but man am I glad it's done.
I presented it to Toni today and she loved it. It fit her just perfect too. I am so happy. She will be wearing it in her wedding this weekend and I am so glad that she asked me to make it for her. I put a lot of love into it and I wish her many, many years of love and companionship with her soon to be husband.

Toni's Bracelet ( A work in progress)

Okay, here is the progress that I have made on Toni's bracelet to date. It's about half way done, I think. So far I've been stitching with a little bit of right angle weave and a little peyote also. Enjoy!

Toni's Bracelet

Here is the beginnings of a free form bracelet that I have been commissioned to make for a wedding. The bracelet will also be embellished with an assortment of glass and plastic flowers. So far I have just begun with the seed beads and the free form bead weaving. I will post more photos as the project goes.