Dulcey Heller

Category: Jewelry

  • A rose necklace

    I finished a project, a gift for a friend. Rose luster, ivory, champagne ab and gold matte seed beads with ivory and round pressed beads. My own design with a mixture of techniques. The clasp is a brass magnetic ball clasp; I shortened the pink herringbone rope at each end to keep the spacing close to…

  • Crazy lace agate

    Enjoy this beautiful stone – and ignore my lazy photography. This is a Mexican crazy lace agate cabochon, cut by my grandfather sometime in the 1950s to 1970s. I have several of the cabs he cut, but they’ve always been too special and limited for me to feel I could or should work with them,…

  • Seed pods

    I recently sent these off as gifts, and I think it’s safe to post them now; here’s a couple of my seed pods in shades of grey, intended as pendants. I had this design published in Beadwork Creates Earrings, and it was fun to revisit. I also recently made a starfish and mailed it off (also…

  • Snowflake for 2014

    Every year, I make a snowflake for my Christmas tree. Here is this year’s edition; my design.

  • Ornaments, 2014 edition

    So, I’m taking three (?) shortcuts. Using my phone to take a picture. No light tent. Blogging on my phone. What’s the saying? Perfect is the enemy of good? I wouldn’t at all say that this picture is good, but perhaps good enough for a little project. Back to the beadwork! For one of my…