Dulcey Heller

Category: Beaded beads

  • Bead-around-the-world start

    I’m participating in a project, hosted by Angelica, a beader in Germany, called “Bead-around-the-world.” Its blog is here, and the basic premise is this: each person makes a starting beaded bead, and then the rest of the participants make a bead to complement it. Each beader gives her size and color preferences, and at the…

  • Blue beaded bead

    This is perhaps the first bead in a swap in which I’m participating. I need to see if I continue to like it after a few days! It’s peyote over a 12mm wooden bead as armature.

  • Green ruffles, completed

    Good Quill Hunting (music plays) is hosting a Haute Couture contest — “inspired wearable bead art.”  Participants are to choose any one of 36 different Haute Couture pieces, and make something inspired by that photo.  Here’s what I chose: Click on the photo to see two detail shots. Two things caught my eye with this…

  • Sylvia’s sautoir

    Look at this lovely necklace I received as a gift from Sylvia Sur! There is copper chain between the beads (a perfect complement), which I’ve pooled into piles between the beads – so you can simply admire these beautiful beaded beads.  Every one is different, yet creates a wonderful cohesive whole. And a prettier shot:…

  • Orange beaded bead necklace done!

    It’s done!  My plan, as I was working on it, was that the clasp (button) would be worn jauntily off-center.  I think it looks best centered.  It literally took me hours to string, and that was after I had laid out the design.  Here’s the lesson to take away from this:  when making right angle…