Category: Necklaces

  • More stained glass pendants

    Here are more pendants that Carol made for me.  Again, the solder is lead-free.  The top red and yellow wasn’t intended for the BFAC necklace currently waiting for me on my worktable.  The rest were possibilities, and we got together and experimented with possible layouts.  Then she took them home and soldered on the rings…

  • BFAC 2010 idea

    Here’s where I’m going with my BFAC 2010 project: My stained glass artist friend, Carol, made several pendants for me in the color scheme of the kit — I provided her with the fan of beads above, and a sample of those beads not included in the fan.  The rose montees are placed on the…

  • Beading for a Cure 2010

    Auctions are complete, and the kits are (long ago!) purchased and distributed to those of us participating in the project.  Beading for a Cure is a creative fundraiser for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Association in honor of Layne Schilling, a beader lost to the disease.  Beaders buy a kit of unknown contents, and are…

  • 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…

  • Button centerpiece

    Here’s what I’ve made the button into — my intention is to string it though the shank on the back, hopefully hiding the clasp underneath it.