Category: Jewelry

  • Pearls, toothpicks, rubber, and wire

    I wanted to do something little and fun.  I came across some half-drilled pearls, a gift from a friend, and remembered seeing something like skewers with pearls glued on the end.  Kelly helped me remember that the cover image below is what I was remembering: I checked this book out from the library a while…

  • Hang the Moon

    Check out what my friend Cyndi Lavin did with the bail I designed for the open Swarovski square: Photograph by Cyndi Lavin, used with permission. I love it!  Here are her instructions.  If you don’t already have the bail instructions (B&B Creative Beading vol 4, or B&B December 2007), you can purchase them from Buy…

  • Creative Beading book

    The B&B email I recently received, advertising the current volume of the “Best of” projects, included my earring project!  Here’s the “click here” link from the email, listed in small print at the top “if you have problems seeing the graphics.”  Or in my case, want to share them.  Cool! A bigger picture of the…

  • Two more of my patterns available on Buy The Kit

    On the Buy The Kit pattern page, I have two more instruction sets available.  One is Grommets Galore: And the other is Simple Solutions: Select my name from the BTK pattern page – each is $4.

  • Daisy chain sample

    I’ve been playing with daisies for a possible project.  This is the first attempt worth photographing (most others didn’t make a whole daisy, let alone a chain).  These sweet little things are 20 mm across at the face, about 3/4″.  This string of 5 is a little over 2 1/2″ long. If I continue on…