Silver Rains

I am one of 5 randomly chosen artists on Artisan Whimsy to be chosen for the 5x5 July Test group.  Currently published in their online magazine "Bead Chat Magazine". We worked with fabulous Beach Glass Beads presented to us by Znetshows .  Znetshows has an extensive wholesale selection of gemstones and beads and their website  is updated daily! Be sure to check back here for updates as I will post photos when I receive my "Beach Glass".  Thank you to Znetshows and Artisan Whimsy for this opportunity! i was inspired by childhood memories of long walks on the beach, looking for the perfect shell or bit of glass as a "treasure" to take home.  Below are photos of the jewelry i made using the "Beach Glass". Happy Beading! Go Gators!

I am so happy to have been chosen to participate in the Blu Mudd Design Team  for a 2nd time!  If you are not familiar with Blu Mudd please take a gander at the Etsy Shop  and you will see a lovely selection of unique jewelry components, pendants, buttons, cabochons etc... skillfully created by  Moriah Betterly .   Below is a sampling of components that Moriah so graciously sent out to each of the participants.  The challenge is to create a jewelry design utilizing the pendant you receive.  The pendants are randomly chosen, and until you open the package you don't know what you are getting!  Fun! Fun! Fun! We submit one photo of our finished piece to Moriah.  Moriah has posted the photos on the Blue Mudd  facebook page and everyone (that means   all   of you! ) can now vote on your favorite piece.  But I do encourage you to take a visit to view the pieces and vote on your personal favorites.  One commen...

It was my pleasure to be partnered with Jean A. Wells please be sure to check out her blog for some amazing pieces! Jean sent me some lovely ingredients for my soup. Here is her winning recipe. 1 handmade pendant created by the very talented Kylie Parry , 25 Brown Sugar beads, 1Fancy Floral Clasp, 1 Green Jasper Nugget, 6 10 mm wood roundelles, 2 Green Picasso Czech Bicone Beads, 5 Dark Forest Porcelain Beads by Ingrid, 8 8mm Fire Polish Topaz Beads and 8 8mm Topaz Crackle Beads. Here is what I created using her recipe. I hope you enjoy it. First for the bracelet here I drilled a second hole in the pendant made by Kylie Parry, I made a copper spiral which I then covered with some lovely fiber that is meant to be doll hair. I did a right angle weave with an assortment of the beads from my soup along with some Czech fire polish from my own collection. I made a little pair of earrings to match shown further below. The bracelet below was created with beads from the soup with the additi...

I am really happy to be a part of this challenge hosted by Sally Russick. Please visit her blog at The Studio Sublime Normally my work tends to be in contrasting color schemes rather than monochromatic shcemes. I enjoyed the challenge of creating a piece in varying shades of ORANGE!! I,love Orange it shouts out loud! What's your favorite crayon color? Be sure to look for your favorite color on Sally's blog where you will find a lot of very talented artists for your blog hopping pleasure! I call this "out of the swamp" any members of the "Gator Nation" out there? Since I used rather generic findings for the clasp, I dressed it up with a little Gator. The faceted rondelles were purchased from Lydia at Beedtime Bead Shop here in Ocala. The Preciosa crystals were acquired at Birdsong Beads in Andrews, NC on one of out many trips up to Murphy. There was no pattern for this bracelet, I just started beading in a right angle weave sort of way with some additi...

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Woohoo! I received a marvelous selection of seed beads in 6/0 and 11/0 from my so generous partner Kelli Jacobson I love what Kelli sent I have been wanting to add more 6/0 seed beads and mixes to my collection. Kelli also made some lovely polymer clay beads In turquoise and her own mix "cherry mango" yummy! That's not all she included some rough cut amethyst that will be gorgeous wire wrapped! Thank you Kelli, I hope you like what I sent just as much! -Happy Beading! Judy

I have looked and looked for this puffy star pattern forever! I finally found it on etsy at Joy Harmon Designs. The PDF was easy to follow with great step by step photos. I chose size 10 delicas for this star. -Happy Beading! Judy