Dulcey Heller

Category: Necklaces

  • Naniboujou palette, part 3

    And a bit longer. Half done? I think I want this fairly short. I spent (too much) time surfing for a fabulous button for a clasp, no luck so far. I may end up getting this to the point where it’s done except for the clasp, until I come across the one I want.

  • Naniboujou palette, part 2

    I’ve done a little bit more. It’s going a bit slowly because of my available time and the beading itself. It takes some finessing to get the needle into the core beads. My tension should probably be looser.

  • Naniboujou palette

    I just love these colors used in the ceiling at the Naniboujou Lodge, which I wrote about here. I decided to make a double spiral rope using these colors. I wanted to use the bright colors more as an accent, to help it not be too overwhelming and busy. Here’s my first attempt — too…

  • More beaded beads

    A slowly progressing project is making more right angle weave beaded beads, to eventually string into a necklace with a wonderful button as a clasp (I’d like to figure out a great embellished loop for the button). I have one orange bead to include. I’m making a bunch of these blue beads. The orange bead…

  • Small pendant

    For a friend…. Okay, now I really want to buckle down and figure out a more substantial project to do next. I like doing bigger projects, but sometimes it’s hard to start them (and then there’s the stage at about 2/3 complete, where the end never seems to be in sight). I have a Jo…