Dulcey Heller

Tag: herringbone

  • I love French pumpkin beads

    Really, I love all these colors, but the pumpkin is its own category of wonderful. I have a lot of this particular bead, but they are precious because I love them, and because there are no more French seed bead manufacturers. I’ve long admired Julie Powell’s beadwork, especially her collections of herringbone rope necklaces. 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Lapis and pyrite pendant

    Thanks so much to my friend Katherine, who when she went to Chile, kept her eye out for something for me to bead. We met for lunch when she returned, and she poured this lovely lapis cab out of a bag. It is a lovely, rich blue with very attractive pyrite inclusions. I made something simple, but…