Tag: peyote

  • A snowflake flower

    One of the flower experiments from The Beaders Floral looked a bit like a snowflake to me.  I anchored the petals together (the 15s on the straight sides), and it became a snowflake!  I make a snowflake ornament every year for the holidays, so this year, I’m done early!

  • Playing with lava

    I bought some strands of lava beads from Rings and Things, and wanted to try a pendant (or something) with a few of them.  Here are the results!

  • Impressionist earrings

    I assembled the blue earrings from the beautiful pile of blue French beads in an earlier post.  They are from Jean Campbell and Judith Durant, Beadwork inspired by art : Impressionist. It’s a beautiful, full earring, lovely motion and texture. I went to a talk by Jean Campbell in February about using art as inspiration…

  • Blue earrings coming soon…

    This is for ONE pair or earrings.  Really!

  • Cindy’s beadwork

    I’ve posted in the past about the Mystery Image Project that Cindy McCornack began, and members of the Bead Art forum completed.  This previous post has more information.  Cindy was best known for her beaded art dolls, which she documented and taught in her self-published book (no longer available).  I was lucky enough to have…