Dulcey Heller

Category: Jewelry

  • 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…

  • Impressionist earrings

    I assembled the blue earrings from the beautiful pile of blue French beads in an earlier post.  They are from Jean Campbell and Judith Durant, Beadwork inspired by art : Impressionist. It’s a beautiful, full earring, lovely motion and texture. I went to a talk by Jean Campbell in February about using art as inspiration…

  • Blue earrings coming soon…

    This is for ONE pair or earrings.  Really!

  • 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…