The Art Bead Scene’s monthly challenge was an interesting bit of wallpaper by William Morris. The design elements are something along the lines of what I do so I whipped up a little focal bead with a trellis and orange-y flowers and made a necklace:
It gave me the chance to use one of the cute little bird beads I’d bought sometime ago as well as some of my collection of pretty stone beads.
Well, at least the beads are bumpy:
I would say that life, last week at least, was CHILLY. There was a biggish milestone in it:
I guess that means there’s now a teenager in the house. So far teenage kiddo seems much the same as twelve year old kiddo!
January has been off to a good start. One of the first things I did with my holidays and new year was to clean off the bead table, right down to the top. That means I’ve actually been making and photographing items at a steady clip since. Here’s a few from this week:
This bracelet was fun – using a tab bead in a way I hadn’t really thought of until I saw others doing it on the ‘net.
This is another necklace – I need to take these while they`re hanging, I know – with a pendant in an oval shape with little (downright tiny) blue flowers. There are a few coordinating blue, green and brass beads on this piece.
And these are the dainty little coordinating earrings for the above pendant.
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Next on my to-do list is the drilling of holes in the occupiers of my bead table:
There’s a similarly sized stack already done but I’ve learned to space out drilling tasks so the rest will be done today and the next few days. My hands thank me.
One of my clay related resolutions for 2012 is to get way way more into textured clay. I used to make a few of these little bumpy beads which are basically texture / sculpted versions of my regular beads. I finally got the urge to create a few more including doing a few on flat back pendants or bracelet beads. The reverse side is lightly textured and the whole deal is antiqued.
Here’s a few that haven’t gotten used yet. I have plans though!
This little pendant and nugget bead set got turned into a necklace and earrings. I added lampwork by Cheryl Harris, some tiny amethyst, a few pearls and lots of antiqued metal bits and chain.