Mum's birthday lariats

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!

I made these for my mummy's birthday. There were from bead soup mixes I got from Fe at Vine Creations. Nice decent beads in there too. They look and feel great. They are nice and looooong.

Designer quest 11

These are the 2 packs to chose from.

And this is my creation. I didn't enjoy this one as much as previous ones.... having seen some of the creations from the carnelian pack, I wish I got that one!! The pack I chose had amythest, smokey quartz, clear quartz, pearls and aventurine

Bianca's Lampwork Beads

My friend Bianca (I can call her my friend I think.... she is cyber fwend though!)

Anyhoo, she made me these beautiful lampwork beads. They have a silver fleck through them which I think the glass ladies call "Cosmic".

The beads are divine and I wanted to pick up the colours in them. I know my style is "simple", but I hate "plain" so this was hard for me to show off their beauty.

Mum's coral

Many Thanks to the Blue Quoll for taking some pics for me.


Mrs Q and I put these together last weekend. The larger one is soooo heavy and the coral chunks are huge. The faceted nuggets in the smaller necklace are about 20mm in length and the black beads are 10mm if that helps put it in perspective.

Bookmarks

The ladies at craftworks were making these gorgeous bookmarks.... well I couldnt help myself and went off to get some tassles this afternoon. I love these!

Jacqui's Wedding!

Here is the happy couple with their speech. You can see her BEAUTIFUL dress and the jewellery. The pearl necklace she is wearing was her Nonna's. I made her bracelet, earrings and haircombs.

Here are more piccies of the wedding with the jewells in action!

Next photo is John, Jacqui and Me
Can't believe my lippy was still on, this was near the end of the night
Next is me doing a reading as part of the ceremony and Jaqui and Gary in the background I tried to explain that John that a "FULL SHOT" needs to include shoes!!! So here are my shoes I wore :) The wedding was so much fun.

Here is the pic of her jewells and these were mine

Year of the Jewellery - INTERACTIVE

Every week the forum has a different theme for their Year of the Jewellery competition.

I have made this entry for the theme INTERACTIVE. The idea is that you put whatever words you like on the neckring. I had lots of fun with different combos.

So this is just a bit of fun (of course I was procrastinating again..... should have been getting ready for classes tomorrow and hanging out the washing!!)

Beading Challenge - "chocolate, coffee and cream... on the forest floor"

Ok, here goes nothing. After being very stuck for ideas this morning I have created this one for chocolate, coffee and cream............on the forest floor, the new beading challenge.

It is a bracelet and is designed to relflect the colours of lichen, moss and leaf litter with the swirls of creamy coffee and chocolate mixed in. Like the forest floor you will find a bit of everything scattered in amongst the leaves. There are vintage beads, czech glass, MOP, autumn jasper, glass pearls, acrylic, spectral, moss agate and much more.

VERY happy with this one!

That blue and copper wire pendant

Has now become this wonderful piece.

I just love the forum!!!! This was in the lot of wired pendants I made. I put a picture of them up in the forum and I was pondering in that post what else to do with the coiling gizmo.....Well Patricia (Pats Creations - mightycat) told me how to do these little coiled beaded beads. THANKYOU SO MUCH!!!!! and this is what I did with the pendant, with my 2 extra beaded beads on some wire added to some rubber cord and then the spiral ends made with the coiler and a clasp!!!!! They coiled beads are now referred to as Mightycat Coils LOL

Some wiring about

I have whipped up some wire pendants to show the class this week. They are just designed to show you that playing with wire makes your possibilities endless. You are only limited by your imagination and the amount of wire you have.

Commission For Cheryll

A lovely friend of Mum's visits me at the Lawson Markets and last week asked me to make something for her with some beads she had chosen.

This is the final creation. I hope you like it Cheryll.

Charity Auction

I am going to design a piece for a Charity auction that will be run by the lovely Rebecca of The Stranded Bead in Albury.

I have created these darling little napkin holders after being inspired by a project in a South African Beading magazine. There are 8 all together and I am going to put them with some pink napkins. They are representative of the pink Breast Cancer support Ribbon.

I will still make another piece for the auction and once I know some more details I will let you all know here as well.

CLASSES!!!

I will Start teaching this term at Craftworx. A 6 week term with lots of excited students. These are the samples of each project we are going to do this term.

Week 1
Beaded necklace project
Focussing on stringing techniques and finishing off with clasps

Lets talk about
Beads Beads and more beads…. Learn about different types of beads


Week 2
Wrap Bracelet and matching earrings project
Focussing on wire loops and a simple yet impressive bracelet design

Lets talk about
Findings….. Learn what all those little bits and pieces are for.
Stringing…. different stringing materials and appropriate uses


Week 3
Wire wrapped bangle and a simple pendant project
Focussing on wire and manipulation – bit of freeform fun!

Lets talk about
Wire….. What is gauge? What should I use? Learn all about wire


Week 4
Wrapped loop bookmark or key ring project
Focussing on wrapped loops and more wrapped loops – making charms

Lets talk about
Different beading techniques and mediums.


Week 5
3 strand illusion bracelet project
Focussing on crimping and finishing of multi-strand items


Week 6
Ask me how.
Bring in a project you would like some help to start or any repairs you might like to learn how to do. Use this session to brainstorm, finish projects and ask me any questions.

Just a few extras

Some more things I have made up recently. I bit more fiddling with wire.

These will be chokers on black cord, like the pearl ones I do.
Some dalmation fun!

New earring hangers.

Bracelets Galore

I have a thing for bacelets LOL!!! This top one still needs a clasp, I am looking for something special. The beads are amazing they are 14mm Czech fire polished beads and are clear with a swirl of red, every 3rd or 4th bead has an AB coating and the huge daisy beads look great... this one is a keeper I think
Some pink crackle nuggets with antique pink Czech rondelles..... just gorgeous!

Having a pink day I think.

I love the look of these champagne coloured Czech beads.

Ring Ring, Bling Bling

I made this ring from a Toho Kit. It is beautiful but the seedies are teeny.... wont be making many of these and it might be the end of my seed beading too (sorry margie and chez) they just are not my thing!!!! I have one more in black to make and that will be my lot.

A wired pendant

With design inspiration and help from Margie (Marlier) and some tips from Vicki (Dragonflycreations), I came up with this wired pendant. It is quite large and I love the colours. Not too bad for a first effort. It is so hard for me to be random and being symetrically random sometime backfires!!

The Ugly Bead Swap

This time on the forum I have taken part in the Ugly Bead Swap.
You send your uglies to another member and receive their uglies.
You have to make up what you can using minimal additions (stringing supplies etc excluded of course)

I sent some super uglies to my partner and these are the ones I received from her. I think she made it a little easy with the colour tonings (oh boy do I feel bad for what I sent)... but here are the uglies:

and here are my creations.

Some new things to share with you.

Vintage inspired 3 strand with pearls, Czech glass and some beautiful tulip beads. Below are the matching earrings.


These are made with the most amazingly sparkly swaro octogons. I already had the posts so these were quick and easy to make.

This is a spectacle necklace. The wood looks perfect with the vitrial finished matt green Czech beads.

I made these for Deb's Birthday. They are the strongest heamatite beads I have ever come across. This looks awesome in real life, the blue is so vibrant.

I made these up this afternoon with some earring components that Mel gave me. Hmmm another 4 daggers down..... only heaps more to go LOL.

Pink Pearls

Created on a rainy day I have finally found something to do with those blister/rebirth pearly things.