Monday, May 12, 2008

Another Week of Opportunities!

This weekend has been quite fruitful in terms of beading. I managed to complete quite a few pieces and am pleased with them. Right now I'm working on a series of necklaces, bracelets and watch bands for Christmas. I'll probably have them all ready by late October for a gallery showing. If there's anything special you want me to make for you, do let me know. Remember, I don't post all my designs on the blog, just the ones that are different and a bit more special. I do make lots of other jewelry as well.




This is a lovely lime green 37-inch lariat and 5-inch drop which took 3 days to make! For the main lariat I used size 8, 11 and 15 Japanese glass seed beads, Swarovski crystals and Czech fire polished beads. For the drop, in addition to the glass seed beads I also used lots of freshwater pearls, amethyst gemstone beads and Czech fire polished beads.

The colours are youthful and simply gorgeous.






Here's a lovely bling-bling 17-inch necklace made from Swarovski rivolis. I used 16 and 18 mm rivolis. The main necklace is made from Swarovski bicone crystals. Really nice for evening wear.






And the last necklace for today is an 18-inch spiral rope necklace with a pyrite centrepiece. Pyrite is also called "fool's gold" because there are lovely shiny gold coloured speckles which catch the light nicely.
For the spiral rope I used size 8 and 11 Japanese glass seed beads together with Swarovski bicone crystals and Czech fire polished beads.
Now off I go to get more inspiration and work done for this week. Have a wonderful week everyone!

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