Category: Vessels

  • Christmas tease 2 – vase!

    This vase is made of myrtle wood – I liked the greenish tone of the wood with these pretty red luster beads. I need to buy more transparent lusters, I’m infatuated with this bead finish right now.

  • Christmas tease 2

    Gold luster red beads and copper-lined twin beads.

  • Swirl beaded basket

    Pretty thing, isn’t it? Last summer, when I took a class from Diane Fitzgerald, she gave us these instructions that are in the April/May Beadwork magazine. This is the piece that I made at that time; I knew they were going to be in Beadwork, so I waited to post this. The beads are Italian,…

  • BFAC 2011, step 4

    Again, maybe.  The medallions are to be incorporated with this; I believe I have an idea

  • BFAC 2011, step 3

    Maybe. If I decide I like this, I need to make 4 more. They will be used with tension, which should smooth out the oval around the cab.  I simply kept adding beads, and now it’s more ornate than my typical beadwork. The advantage of ornate is that I’ve used all the required beads except…