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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Beadwork - Purple Tempest & Metal Forest Star

I finished the Purple Tempest box's lid and added sparkle with a Swarovski crystal finial.

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This box is for Lauren, my eldest niece. An exact copy has been requested by Elizabeth, my youngest niece. Not to be left out my nephew Mackenzie select colours and a pattern from Julia Pretl's Little bead boxes book.

He started with a deep green and a glavenized gold, we then added another green and a metallic bronze. Here is his box.

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Friday, July 17, 2009

Beadwork - Niece beading

It is almost the end of our week up in cottage country. I have shown my eldest niece, Lauren, how to do a basic diagonal weave. She has made a ring, bracelet and is working on a bracelet.

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Of course my youngest niece, Elizabeth, could not be left out. So I made her a ring, bracelet and necklace.

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Elizabeth has decided that I am not allowed to photograph her new necklace.

I am working on a star box for my nephew Mackenzie, should have it finished by the end of the weekend.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Beadwork - Purple Tempest

Purple Tempest

I am on vacation up in cottage country. Of course I brought some beads with me. I had four shades of purple selected to make another box. My oldest niece, Lauren said that she liked purple. So this is her Purple Tempest box. I only have the lid to finish. I photographed by the lake as an added rembrance of our vacation.

Purple Tempest

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Beadwork - Sea Aneome Box 2

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Here is the second in my Sea Aneome box series. I still have to do the lid, but I have run out of one colour of beads. My inspiration was from Margie Deeb's Beader's Color Palette. The first box in the series had the darker fuchisa as the dominate color. Here the pale creamy yellow is. I think that this is closer to the inspiration picture regarding the ratio of colours.
Here is the bottom of the box.
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Monday, July 6, 2009

Beadwork - Bracelets

I have finished two bracelets using two different stitches.

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This one uses right angle weave. This is my own design using Swarovski round crystals and pearls to create a ribbon like bracelet.

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This bracelet is from the new Bead & Button magazine. It uses triangle weave. There were instructions to embellish, but I decide to leave it plain. I used to 8 mm Swarovski margaritas as closures. I will need to rework this part of the bracelet as it kept falling of today at work.