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.

Beadwork - Sea Aneome Box 2

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.

Beadwork - Bracelets

I have finished two bracelets using two different stitches.

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

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.

Beadwork - Ric Rac Bracelet redux

I really liked the ric rac bracelet that I did in a class at the Toronto Bead Society's Bead Fair. I made two more to give as gifts.

The first is done with bronze seed beads and hematite 4 mm Swarovski crystals.

I gave this to Maria to go with the necklace that she asked me to make for her.

The second bracelet was a gift for my sister's sister-in-law. My brother-in-law and his sister celebrated their birthdays together a few weeks ago. Here is the bracelet that I made for Liz using black seed beads and padparadscha AB swarovski crystals.

Beadwork - Trypillian Refined Swag Cascade

Inspired by the Trypillian exhibit that was at the ROM earlier this year Maria Rypan created the necklace with bronze and black seed beads. I made the sample for display earlier but Maria wanted to have a piece that she could wear. She started the necklace by making the base band. I finished it for her by adding the cascading swags.

Beadwork - Galaxy Necklaces

Amy Waldman Smith, an amazing glass artist and fellow member of the Toronto Bead Society, makes these amazing bead sets. They etched glass dotted with fine silver. I have a number of these sets but have done nothing with them.

I started with the set that is browns, oranges, reds and yellows. I strung them with two different Swarovski crystals and small silver beads.

I made a matching set of earrings.

My other two sets have fewer beads. So I designed a section of beading which I extended with pieces of sterling silver chain.

I wore the blue one to work yesterday and the jump ring holding the toggle opened. I am going to change them to split rings to make it more secure.

Beadwork - Padparadscha Opalite Set

One of the other pieces that I finished this weekend I started weeks ago. It was draped on one of my display forms all this time because I was not sure if I was happy with the design. Looking at again this weekend I decided that the design need one small change. I added smaller crystals on either side of the opalite drops. This allowed the piece to drape better. Here is the finished necklace.

I made a matching bracelet and earring set.