Desk Full of Spring

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Elaine

Little polymer clay beads are one of the happy things in my world. Which is good because there’s a fair number of them in my world, too. Here’s a few of the latest:

These are wild petunia (the light purple), violets, crocus and little white accent flowers. The petunias could be another type of violet easily enough. I could spend MONTHS poking through Google Images looking at flowers. I probably have, actually.

For you local folk who read here: I’ll be volunteering at the Art Gallery from 1-5 this afternoon which means I’ll ALSO be working on my clay projects. I’m not sure exactly what I’ll get up to but I figure some blends at least. I always need to do those.

Missed My Wednesday

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Elaine

I did mean to post for the Bead Table Wednesday. Mostly because Bead Table Thursday just doesn’t have the same ring. But here it is anyways:

I made these beads last year at some point. The smaller beads are various semi precious stones and I used a lovely gunmetal coloured wire for the links and clasp. It was nice to sit down and create a whole necklace.

Here’s a few of the beads I was photographing and using yesterday. I found an even, thin, white plastic box to take photos in to replace the ripped tissue paper version I’ve been using and I like how smooth and even the lighting is. I do plan on buying an actual table top photo tent soon for the larger items but for beads and small jewellery without props a 3 or 4 foot cube seems like overkill.

If YOU have a bead table you should share your projects with us in the Bead Table Wednesday flickr group.

Trellis

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Elaine

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.

Life is Bumpy

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Elaine

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!

Bead Table Wednesday

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Elaine

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.