Category: Jewelry

  • Bead-around-the-world, group 2

    Here’s the second group of beaded beads for the Bead-around-the-world beaded bead exchange: These are for Angelica (the bottom black one), and Ulli (the green one, which is a significantly darker and more olive green than the photo, but I had to lighten it to see anything of the detail of the black beads). All…

  • Bead-around-the-world, group 1

    Bead-around-the-world is a group in which I participated, where most of the participants are in Germany. Each person makes a starter beaded bead, and the rest of the beaders makes a bead to compliment that bead. We send our beads to our host, Angelica, and she puts the sets together and sends them to their…

  • Bead-around-the-world beaders

    I’ve received permission to post pictures of the beads I’ve made for Bead-around the world! Before that, here’s the blogs of the other Bead-around-the-world beaders, if you’d like to browse: Angelica (hostess) Britta Inge Marylou Renata Sylvia Tynchen Ulli (she has posted the beads she has received) Other participants are Angela, Anke, and Ute; they…

  • Blue beaded fans, step 1

    So building off the fan pendant I recently made, here’s a few elements to combine for a bracelet. I’ll likely finish this as a bracelet — but I think I like the pendant better, the shapes are more interesting to me with only two fans. It runs through my mind that I have no idea…

  • Art Deco fan pendant

    This is a shape idea I had, and when executed, I found looks reminiscent of Art Deco style. I can easily picture a string of them made as a bracelet. I like the negative space between the green rounds in the way that I combined the fan elements. Also, perhaps a bit surprisingly, this pendant…