Dulcey Heller

Category: Jewelry

  • Nine O-rings

    I finished my coworker gifts today — I beaded enough O-rings to have one for each person. Our staff is small, and we like to exchange presents. I try to choose something that can be worn as a pendant, or hung on the Christmas tree. I also aim for something that I can mostly make…

  • Holiday beading

    Corners of what I’ve done… Yes, I broke out the sequins.

  • Button necklace

    I was scanning the book Bead Journey, a Kalmbach stringing publication, and saw a project stringing large tagua nuts shaped as buttons. It was a belt, connected with long loops of beading wire covered by rubber tubing. The tagua beads reminded me of these bone large-hole buttons that I bought more than 20 years ago…

  • A small gift

    I made this last night for a friend who deserved a little something. I tried to make it reversible, using a blue-green like the Swarovskis to edge the right angle weave on one side, and the gray on the other. However, I do not have a bead in a charlotte or Japanese 15 that looks…

  • Lovely right angle weave

    I was reading the current newsletter from My Lovely Beads, a bead store in Alexandria, Virginia. Check out the Geometric Bracelets gallery towards the bottom of the page. There’s some great right angle weave, nice sculptural shapes by Galina Kolmogorova. See how she’s used memory wire to give at least some of them shape? I’m…