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…
“Bead” in Reston, Virginia
The exhibition “Bead” is open until the end of the month at the Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia. I have met five of these artists in person, I believe – two as teachers (Joyce Scott, David Chatt), two as fellow students (Rebecca Starry, Teresa Sullivan), and one in context with one of my jobs…
A beady shopping list for the American Craft Council show in Baltimore
I won’t be there, but I can identify at least SEVEN people at the retail show who work with small beads, my first love. Most use thread, one uses glue, and at least a couple use a lot of gemstones, but these are all my beady people! Thea Fine, Beading Design, booth 913 Olga Mihaylova, booth 512…