New earring prototype

My great-nephew, Brayden, is the photogenic young man in the first two pictures. Here is a new kind of earring that I am hoping to make more of for the holidays.

Sorry it has been so long

I have been creating stuff. But I haven't been online much. Here are some of my new creations.

Pictures

I have been very busy lately. I got to make a lot of beaded beads this weekend. I also took a class from Jodie and I have pictures from that as well. Lots of eye candy.

Snowflake Class

I will be teaching how to make my Swarovski Snowflake Pendants at Main Street Bead Studio on Nov. 7. Here is their website: http://www.mainstbeadstudio.com/
Hope you can join us there in Fremont NE.

New stuff

Finally, I have a chance to upload new pictures. I have a picture of some candle holders for the wedding in September and the top and bottom of a bracelet based on Laura Shea's design in a recent Bead & Button magazine.

Rivoli beaded bead

I had this idea and here are the pictures of the results. 10 rivolis are set in the beaded bead.

Quintuple Dodecahedron

Here is a crystal beaded dodecahedron. They are stacked with the smallest on the inside and the largest on the outside. The smallest one has one bead on each side and the largest has 5 beads on each side. The smallest one requires 30 beads and the largest requires 150.

Bowl of Dodecahedrons

These are a bunch of the dodecahedrons I made for a recent show.

Art in the Yard

A show at the Parmele House B & B in Plattsmouth, NE tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. That is what I have been getting ready for lately. I have been making enough dodecahedrons to fill a wooden bowl. Dodecahedrons are a 12-sided three-dimensional figure. Each side is the shape of a pentagon and each one takes at least 30 beads. I have been making them in all sizes, shapes and colors. I have made a few "double" dodecahedrons where there is a little dodecahedron inside of a larger dodecahedron. Last night after school got over for the summer, I made a quintuplet dodecahedron. I am hoping to take pictures tomorrow at the show to share with everyone. Thanks!

Frog Update

The frog has one cabochon sewn on. I started with red beads and each row is a different color--I got all the way to blue in the rainbow. I need to get purple 15s so I can do one more row. The frog is going to use all the colors of the rainbow, but I am going to make circles of one color at a time. Similar to the circles on Lola (purple, green, and orange). Stay tuned for more updates. : )