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Fairest of Them All Journal
I enjoy journaling, as well as drawing and painting, so I created this fun journal with heavy weight watercolor paper. This one is more of a coffee...
Components: Paper, paper, paper. I make my own tissue and decorate it with gold paint patterns, pasted to textured paper that I buy. I then raid my junk box for brass and copper wire, findings, beads and chain and have at having fun.
Repurposed Steel Pendant
I've had a 2 x 1/2-inch trough of rusted steel on my desk for a year and I decided to solder an old, odd gold filled earring to the top as a bale....
African Bead Bag Charms
Create a unique accessory for your key ring or purse with African beads & tassels.
Nesting wrens
I saw a pendant years ago at a bead shop that looked similar to this. We have lots of little wrens and goldfinches nesting here for the winter and...
Components: All of the components are LB. I love the little melon beads. I’m a big fan of Czech glass beads. Nesting tiny seed beads at the top.
Clusters? Drops ? Dangles?
A friend suggested I make different designs of these (what ever you call them) that could be switched between long chains, short chains, neck...
Components: glass beads, seed beads, stone, crystal, metal pieces, clay, tiger eye. turquoise and pearls
Designed by God
Not jewelry, but I have to share how God (& Nissan) saved our lives. My husband, daughter, her husband, doggie & I were on our way home from...
Components: Totaled car :( Alive bodies:)
Easy Pieces
While on the road I quickly made two necklaces and some bracelets to wear to events I was attending. Later in the trip I gave one necklace as a...
Components: The necklaces are both mixed glass beads strung on waxed linen from Lima Beads, in a color to go with the chosen scheme. They both have barrel clasps, attached with knots inside the clasps. The bracelets are all simple glass bead stretch bracelets.
Scrap Pile
So I wanted to share something. A truth if you will. Often times when I or anyone else shares a "finished" piece we assume that the person just sat...
Components: Copper and stick to it 'tiveness
It's a Wrap Beads, fabric beads
These are my hand made beads. I loved the fabric beads out there, but I wanted them not to look like fabric. Really it started out as a fluke. Then...
Components: Fabric dye, paint, glaze, foil, Flatbacks, rondells, any embellishments you want.
Handmade silk tafetta beads
These are beads made from silk tafetta, they are stuffed, around a sturdy wire, sewn, embellished with sequins, 2mm crystals, various Swarovski...
Components: Silk Tafetta, sequins, 2mm crystal beads, seed beads, wire, batting, Swarovski flatback crystals, various other beads, headpins.
Coin and Cross Kilt Pin
A way to use up miscellaneous bits.
Components: Kilt pin. Coin and cross charms (Lima Beads), Czech flowers, stray lampwork bead, Toho and Czech seed beads, brown wire (too thick but I managed.
Pink and green bling earings
These are made with green stones and my cylinder beads that I perfected for 10 years of finding what will make them durable, hard and colorful....
Components: My "It's a Wrap beads", crystal rhondels, wire and apple green teardrop stone.
Not jewelry...but...
So I made a lapel pin for my granddaughter's prom date. Volunteered and had never made one before. I had a very long 3 and 1/2 inch wide strip of...
Components: fabric scraps, tea light, pin back, fabric leaves, glass pearl
I'm a Fool for a Good Looking Rock
I like to shop for rocks. My stash has many, many stone pendants and the next time I see an out standing one I'll have to add it to the...
Components: various agate and jasper pendants, photos 1 and 4 have vintage chains
Seahorse anklet
One of the prizes in the Easter egg hunt was a foot of this chain. I added a seahorse charm and a lobster clasp to make my sister an anklet!
Components: Zola Elements angel skin pink coin chain, TierraCast antique gold plated seahorse charm, and a lobster clasp with jump rings. All of this is on sale this week!
Key focals
Before Christmas I made a bunch of keybands/lanyards, which I didn't have time to photograph properly then -- a friend of mine took them to a...
Components: My handmade wooden focals, painted with Gilders paste (LB), patterned with wood burning tool. (The last one isn't patterned, I just stained it lightly to bring out the growth rings, of the leftovers of an old Christmas tree!) Various beads, mostly from LB. Hooks from local stores. Cotton cord.
Something Different
I decorated these tote bags for my daughters for Christmas. They come with the design printed in black & are made to paint/color & embellish. I...
Components: See description.
Snow Angel
This 2.5" little angel sparkles and shines as decoration or a small pendant.
Components: You will need (1) 12mm faceted round bead, (2) crystal leaf drops for wings, 20 gauge wire, (14-16) 6mm rondelles or 4-5mm rounds. Round nose pliers are great for finishing the loop.
Wolf's pride
I made this thinking about earrings, but when I got done it looked more like a pendant or keychain. I ended up making a keychain fob out of it.
Components: size 15 seed beads, leather backing, findings
Starry Night Brooch
Starry Night brooch. Art history has always been a love of mine and Van Gogh brushstrokes are replicated in this brooch with a needle and thread...
Components: Nunn Design Antique Gold (plated) Rectangle Ornate Grande Brooch 28x46mm
PMC Made from a rose
I made this with pmc more than 20 layers and fired in the kiln!
Components: ((( fine silver
African Tenner Chaplet
Here is the other piece from my Pick about chaplets. Very textured. Color scheme of matte black, matte olive, matte frosted bronze.
Components: Almost everything from LB. 12mm black lava stone rounds, African metal trade bead, 6/0 matte olive green and matte black "jet" Toho seed beads, 8/0 Toho frosted bronze. Tiny textured bronze plated cross. From sources other than Lima Beads; I used two 6mm Czech druks in a color called "Forest Mix" to either side of the Pater bead. This Czech bead has swirls of the same tones of black, olive and cool bronze. Tiny 2mm dyed bone spacers to control the large holed Pater bead, heavy oxidized jump ring, little black iron jump ring and the usual .019 silver satin Softflex--from LB. 2x2 Heavy sterling silver crimp beads.
Matte Botswana Rosary Chaplet
From my last "Rosary Chaplet Pick." A smaller rosary you count ten times around to reach a rosary. Used where carrying a rosary could cause...
Components: The matte Botswana agate is worth every penny. Warm shades of plum through grey with a touch of purple. I matched it with two 6/0 Toho seed beads; silver-lined frosted light tanzanite and frosted transparent med. amethyst. Two 8/0 Toho seed beads; a transparent frosted plum from an "Ambers Mix" and frosted transparent dark amethyst. The cross is two-sided silver-plated "Talvera" by Nunn. The Pater bead is a silver-plated coin bead "Primrose" by Zola. I used a purple enameled copper jump ring and a tiny black glossy iron jump ring. Softflex .019 and Heavy sterling silver 2x2mm crimps.
Here comes summer!
Just some summer fun - to mix and match with bathing suits at the beach. I got the idea for the circle design from You Tube.
Link for YouTube...
Link for YouTube...
Components: C Lon cord, embroidery floss, craft cord, seed beads
Photo purse charm
I have been experimenting with photos and setting them in bezels. This is a pic of me with my two sons last Mother's Day. I made it into a purse...
Components: bezel connect, laser-engraved stainless steel charm, large swivel lobster clasp
Jacaranda
Oh, no! It's another tree!
One of the prettiest trees in Southern California is the Jacaranda. There are several here in my neighborhood and...
One of the prettiest trees in Southern California is the Jacaranda. There are several here in my neighborhood and...
Components: 14 and 24ga red brass wire, amethyst chips, chrome diopside, emerald glass, peridot chips
Felted Beads!
Hello beaders, its been awhile. I have been insanely busy with school, so I haven't been on here much, but I really wanted to share these with you....
Components: wool, glass beads for spacers
New Work
This what I have been working on this week. I have always wanted to make my own headpins, so I watched a few tutorials and here is the result. I...
Components: Pure copper wire, PC, acrylic paints and sealer.
Plummer
Rebecca Nunn designed these adorable lapel pins with astrology in mind. These are so cute and zodiac signs are on trend.
Cherry Blossoms and a Summer Tree
I've done all four seasons! I've been having some trouble finding greens but finally located a web site that had gem stone chips AND glass chips!...
Components: gemstone chips, glass chips brass and copper wire.
Ammonite Mega-Weave
I absolutely love wirewrapping these ammonites. This is the first one I have put into wireweave. I almost always wrap them in vintage bronze but I...
Components: Very Large(3")Ammonite(this particular one is from a bead show but LimaBeads carries ammonites now), 20 gauge non-tarnish gold Parawire, 26 gauge vintage bronze Parawire
Bookmark gifts
I wanted to make some little gifts for my book club friends for our December meeting. They are all different and were quite fast to put together!
Components: Most used a decorative headpin with the various beads strung on them. The one with the feather has beading wire which allowed me to make the loop
Shaman Prayer Beads
Pagan prayer beads are like a strand of worry beads. The idea is to have lots of interesting to touch and see beads to help you focus on the moment...
Components: 10-11mm Tibetan style lined rounds, 8 mm Tibetan style zigzag rounds, green zebra heishi (love this as a subtle stone separator), etched and striped 6/0 Czech beads, Czech double key tabs, a Czech black with red picasso melon, TierraCast paloma bead, three rough old glass beads, 11/0 matte metallic olive Toho, Heavy 2x2 sterling crimp, .019 silver satin soft flex.
Itsa Key-per!
I needed a new keychain/fob, and couldn't find exactly what I wanted. So I made one and I love it!! I know this isn't exactly jewelry, but it's...
Components: Leather fob from another of my old, unworn leather belts! Tree of Life and dragonfly charms from an Etsy shop, rivets from LB, and large jump rings and centerpiece from my stash.
Bookmarks
Still loving working with wire, although it's been almost a year.I've been making the cord markers for friends, lots of fun!
Components: Copper wire, glass beads. Waxed cotton cord.
Bronze Birds and Red Creek Supplies
These are what I ordered to match my pick! The Red Creek heishi beads are unbelievable. Substantial at 10 mm with a great range of reds, green,...
Components: Red Creek heishi, Nunn Shenandoah Bird in bronze, mixed wooden beads from the Philippines, Czech seed beads in two browns and matte opaque brown Toho seed beads, simple Greek toggle. Most from Lima Beads.
Chatter
on “Wild Jasper”:“This is so beautiful. That Jasper is gorgeous.…” read »
on “Wild Jasper”:“Soothing sea colors. I love this!…” read »
on “Little Green Man”:“Thanks for all your lovely comments!!…” read »
on “Fairest of Them All Journal”:“Lovely creativity! So fun and happy and joyful!…” read »
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on “Coral Coasts Bracelet”:“Love the colors and the design using the new chain. This bracelet actually determined my…” read »
on “Fairest of Them All Journal”:“Great journal! This would be a place to display my wonderful 1967 Mardi Gras trophy bead-string.…” read »
- on “Repurposed Steel Pendant”:
“Lovely.. . for some reason it makes me think of an elegant succulent dish-garden I saw…” read »
on “Fused Glass & Lava Rock Mala Necklace”:“This is very pretty. I like the spring shades in the tassel. And the matching beads…” read »
- on “Wild Jasper”:
“I remember now...it's blue calsilica jasper and LB has some gorgeous strands!…” read »
- on “Wild Jasper”:
“I can't recall the name I have always known it by, but I agree that the…” read »
- on “Repurposed Steel Pendant”:
“Excellent repurposing! Very original and great colors!…” read »
- on “Fairest of Them All Journal”:
“Very pretty journal! I've seen several very pretty journal covers on YouTube by some artists…” read »
on “Coral Coasts Bracelet”:“I’m so glad you posted a new way to use that pretty bead chain as well…” read »
- on “Little Green Man”:
“The contest between the mask and the copper chain above is pretty.…” read »
- on “Little Green Man”:
“This is super. I did not know you could patina pewter. Did you patina…” read »
- on “Wild Jasper”:
“Great necklace!! I love the natural organic look.…” read »
on “Little Green Man”:“Very unusual and wonderful necklace! Gives an ancient feeling immediately, like being part of a tribe.…” read »
on “Little Green Man”:“Wow is right! The focal is exceptional and the colors are perfect with it.…” read »
- on “Speed”:
“A speedometer cable! What a novel idea. I'm all for unusual components and that cable…” read »
- on “Lazy weekend fun”:
“Great bracelets and what's not to love about Kingman turquoise! And those artichokes are just…” read »
- on “Coral Coasts Bracelet”:
“This is really beautiful! Love the colors. I've never worked with waxed linen. This makes me…” read »
- on “Raven Pearls”:
“Rich, rich color! I love pearls of every color and shape. Beautiful color combo…” read »
- on “Spring flowers”:
“Spring is here, (almost)! Enamel work is always so fantastic and your pieces are no…” read »
- on “Amethyst and Ametrine”:
“Amethyst and gold are always a great color combo. Ditto to all of the above…” read »
- on “Tumbled Citrine”:
“Love the rich golden color of the nuggets. Great color and design.…” read »
- on “Coral Coasts Bracelet”:
“I think this is a great bracelet...not real sure about the sliding square knot, but I…” read »
- on “Lazy weekend fun”:
“All are lovely! I especially like the blue bracelet and that focal bead!…” read »
- on “Little Green Man”:
“Tomasina....the mask is patina ed pewter. It's from a shop on Etsy called Inviciti. Thanks!…” read »
- on “Little Green Man”:
“Love your colors! Prehnite has always been a favorite of mine. Love the original…” read »
- on “Spring flowers”:
“These are fabulous! Thanks for posting! I made a silk scarf (painted,dyed) once many years ago,…” read »
on “Balanced in Blue”:“Beautiful design that looks so elegant and expensive! It also looks so time consuming and…” read »
- on “Little Green Man”:
“Please tell what the mask is made of, who made it, and where you found it,…” read »
- on “Amethyst and Ametrine”:
“Beautiful! The chunky stones look great with the more detailed gold components and the smooth tubes.…” read »
- on “Little Green Man”:
“Oh wow! This is just fantastic! You definately did the focal justice. I love each and…” read »
- on “Safety Pin Link Necklace”:
“Very cute! I like the safety pins with loops a lot!…” read »
- on “Amethyst and Ametrine”:
“Very exquisite! Love this bracelet!…” read »
- on “Spring flowers”:
“Love the enameled pieces you used and did a wonderful job showing off their beauty! …” read »
