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... )

I uploaded a couple of new pictures... once I got comfortable with doing Peyote stitch after a few of the Delica cylinder-necklaces I've already shown you, I tried my hand at some pendants made from Svarovski crystals framed in Delica beads stitched with circular Peyote. This is a bit trickier than the simple cylinder beads, especially once you get ( Read more... )

I've uploaded a few new picturs - in addition to lots of jewellery, I also made a few beaded boxes again, and instead of working off patterns tried making my own designs for the first time - very simple ones for now, ranging from some geometrical patterns to a small flower and some fish. I'd like to try something more elaborate one of these days, ( Read more... )

It's been a while since the last time I posted any pictures - I've been rather busy with preparations these last few weeks, since I participated in my very first tiny little local art and crafts fair this weekend with my jewellery and bead figures. I have to admit I was a bit nervous before, but all in all it actually went quite well ( 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... )

A couple of new pictures - I found a book called Little Bead Boxes a while ago and thought they looked nice, plus the idea that you could make boxes only out of beads (and thread, of course) rather fascinated me. I wasn't sure how it would work out at first - this was the first time I'd tried any beadwork with stitching instead of stringing beads ( Read more... )

So, in keeping with my resolution to actually start using this journal more regularly again, I've uploaded a few more pictures of the beadwork I've done in the past few months.

First of all, I made a tree. (  Well, a small one anyway. )

Hi there ( Read more... )

I made another new bead figure - I gave Harry a beaded friend last time, so I figured it would now be time for ( someone a little less friendly... )