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…
The inside…
Does this help, LB? Peyote and tension. No fluid drape of beads, that’s for certain! The face without the white frame of beads is 18mm tall.
The beginning and a bit more
I spent a day, many hours, trying to put the face in a head. The beads were disagreeing with me — the white beaded bits are just a few of the false starts. The white domed circle was the top of the head, and it looks like a top of a head, but the white…
Brilliante Weblog award
Kat gave me this award, thank you!! Her blog, Oranges and Peaches, is a play on the library reference question where someone comes in and asks for Darwin’s Oranges and Peaches — what can happen when you lack a piece of so-called common knowledge that makes the answer nearly impossible to find. I hereby award…