Reflections

This heart has been simmering on the back burner for awhile with the name "Reflection." Well, I finally finished it tonight. First, do you remember doing the little plastic bead designs with the kids? Ironing them to fuse them together. Well, this heart is that size. I found some of the old plastic designs and I cut the suede that size to bead with. I have six different designs and this was the first one of those that I used. The other shapes are from a die cut machine and significantly larger.

New fringe bracelet

This is made with beads by Jodie Marshall. They are bullseye colors. I decided to make a fringe bracelet with half of the beads and I haven't decided what to make with the other half.

Ogalala gone wild

Okay, here are three new pieces of eye candy. An autumn frog necklace--frog is carved tagua nut and the clasp is a copper button and seed beads. The tips of the netting have 3 mm cube beads on them and there is fringe hanging down from the frog. Pink bracelet contains a clasp of seed beads and a Tanya bead with flowers. The purple bracelet contains one of Joan's dichro buttons.

Ocean waves

This one is totally new. I finally learned the Ogallala stitch. I have a little pamphlet that one of the bead magazines published that contains this stitch. I made a bead soup to use for the necklace and then I fringed it with cube beads and abalone shell beads. I really like the way this turned out.

Rainbow twist

This I made to hang my name tag on at work.

Some Fringe bracelets

These are from a while ago, but I haven't posted pictures of them before. The brown one is made with lampwork beads of Aimee Perez (Lakeside Lampwork) and the beads remind me of dinosaur eggs. The blue and white ones are also made by here.

A new pendant

I have been working on this one off and on for a long time. It is a drusy quartz freeform cabochon.

Pretty in Pink

Okay, so finally something new to put on the page. (Also, news to share--my niece got engaged last night.)

A different kind of snowflake

This snowflake is a pattern that I created. I haven't seen it anywhere else. I have them in two different sizes. The snowflakes are a lot warmer than the frozen ones coming down outside this evening.

Other new stuff

Here are some other things that are fairly recent.