I tried something a little different over the long Whitsun weekend - I've been fascinated by the focal beads - large, often quite elaborate and/or unusually shaped beads that can form the heart of a piece of jewellery or be worn on their own as pendants - created by various bead artists for some time now, so I finally decided to try and make some ( Read more... )

Am still making new jewellery, but since I haven't yet gotten around to taking pictures of the newer stuff (somehow I never seem to manage to think of it when the light is actually right), I dug around in some older pictures of my beaded animals which I already took a while ago, but have never posted so far. I've already shown you my little ( Read more... )

So, I finally got around to taking a few pictures of some of my first attempts at jewellery-making:

( My first necklace ever... )