Vacation Beading - Day 2 & 3

Yesterday I had lunch with Maria to celebrate are birthdays this week. We had burgers at the Works down in Bloor West Village. I gave her the Shooting Star pendant that I made on Thursday.

I spent the rest of the day working to finish my series of geometric stars from the class with Jean Power. Using the colour palette from the sea anemone as seen in Margie Deeb's book The Beader's Color Palette.

I finished the fourth star today. 

Here are all four stars together.

I just need to decide how best to display them.

Tomorrow I will do some beading in the morning and spend the afternoon with my sister and her family.

Happy Beading!

Vacation Beading - Day 1

Summer is almost half over and I am taking a short vacation from work. I am hoping to do some beading everyday while I am off. So here is day 1!

Yesterday evening my friend Anna and I took a class at BeadFX.  Pamela Kearns was teaching the Shooting Stars beaded bead from Crystal Play by Anna Elizabeth Draeger.

Class sample, beaded by Pam

Using 2 sizes of Swarovski crystals and seed beads you combine right-angle weave and netting to make this fun and sparkly gem.

I used Dark Red Coral and Jet Swarovski bicones along with galvanized silver seed beads.

It makes a simple but elegant pendant.

I am looking forward to trying other projects from the book.

Happy Beading!

Niagara Falls

Anna and I have spent the last couple of days in Niagara Falls. Here are a few pictures.

Horseshoe Falls

American Falls

Maid of the Mist (wet but amazing)

White Water Walk (as close as you can get to class 6 rapids)

Horseshoe Falls as seen from the observation desk @ Journey Behind the falls

Rainbow over the falls.

Beadwork - 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.