Designs by Beadzilla aka Wanda
Peacock Tail Feathers
This started out as a one strand long necklace that I was going to tie into a knot.
Components: Dancing fresh water peacock pearls one strand. Teal strand is, czech dancing cubes, two glass foiled beads at the bead caps, seed beads, and silver spacers. Purple strand is, peacock czech petals, seed beads and silver tubes. Silver bead caps, spacers, jump rings and clasp.
Maroon Sun
When I put the mookaite and sunstone chips I had together on my bead mat. The maroon colored mookaite seemed to pick up the little bits of copper...
Components: Mookaite, faceted coin puffs, Imperial Jasper rondelle, Sunstone rough cut chips, Multi Gemstone is the yellow faceted rounds, handmade copper spacers, copper spacers, beads, chain, jump rings and clasp.
News Flash
Just trying to use some beads I have had around for a long time. This time I had to figure out what to do with that newsprint jasper from LB, that...
Components: Newsprint jasper, rough cut spinel nuggets, Serpentine rounds and heishi, black and lime lava rock, two czech glass black beads, silver bead caps, beads, jump rings and clasp, unknown gray with black squiggles stone.
Clear Skies
My sister has wanted me to make her a necklace for a long time now. She wears a lot of burgundy and navy tones. This is what I came up with for...
Components: Angelite, Sapphire, Swarovski crystals, Blue resin beads, Silver chain, clasp, bead caps, spacers, headpin.
Magnesite Mountain
The inspiration came from me accidentally dropping the white magnesite into the blues and browns I had been playing around with.
Components: Magnesite, Turquoise, Lava Rock, Red Conglomerate Jasper, Copper clasp, chain, beads and end caps, Seed beads.
Bronze Sunflower
I have had those six sided graduated Botswana Agate for two years now. So I went looking at what I had and found the pendant. So now to figure...
Components: Botswana Agate, Bronzite, Smoky Quartz, Czech square and round beads, square ceramic brown beads, brass spacers, beads, jump rings, gold and brass clasp, delica beads, Topaz silver flower focal. The Botswana Agate, Bronzite squares and the czech squares are all from LB.
Totally Teal
Memory wire bracelet with stash beads.Another peyote stitch ring.
Components: Amazonite, Lampwork beads, various teal czech glass beads, other glass beads, silver beads and spacers, memory wire, Toho delica, magatama beads.
Butterfly Dance
This was my attempt at going out my box, by adding some bead weaving into my design. I also added their antennas with some bronze wire. I made the...
Components: Smoky Quartz, Butterfly focal, Czech glass, various seed beads, copper caps, jump rings, spacers, and clasp.
Evergreen Copper
For the love of greens! Can't remember what the big green stone is.
Components: Brazilian rainforest Jasper, Malachite & pyrite, Jade, Chrysocolla, other green beads in stash, czech glass beads from LB, copper clasp, spacers, beads and hammered set.
Night Owl
Wanted to do something with the handmade glass beads my friend gave me, in my random black and white ones.
Components: Feathered Owl focal, handmade glass beads, other glass beads, metal beads, silver chain and grey silk string.
Rusty charms bracelet and ring
Just a bunch of beads from my stash that I wrapped or looped onto a chain, and a peyote stitch ring.
Components: Carnelian, Lemon Quartz, Jasper fish, Swarovski crystals, glass beads, copper beads, copper chain and czech glass beads from LB
Recycled Coral Flower RIng
Inspiration was the flower that came to me via my daughter, broken and going into the garbage. Saw a design similar to this in a magazine, and new...
Components: Carnelian, Czech glass beads, other glass beads, Copper Chain, clasp and headpins, Flower focal bead.
Southwest coral and turquoise
Just a collaboration of beads I had, that I put together in a southwest theme. The pendant was the inspiration.
Components: Turquoise, Coral, Cinnabar, Czech glass, silver spacers and clasp, red and turquoise seed beads and silver dangle pendant with painted blue and red flower on it.
