Jan Huling at the Hoboken Historical Museum
Jan Huling’s work is instantly recognizable – fully-covered objects, often quirky and always beautiful. Huling had the cover article of June/July 2011 American Craft, where you can read about her beading, starting with a kazoo. If you live in the Hoboken, New Jersey area, you can see Jan Huling’s work on display at the Hoboken Historical…
A meadow of daisies
I sewed a top out of this fabric, and decided I needed MORE daisies – so made earrings to accompany it. There’s a few Swarovski as the center, and some lovely petal clear ab beads from Beadcats. It’s fun to remember the projects for the original purchase; the petals were leftover from a commission I…
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…