Beadwork - Rosary

Here is my latest creation... and it is not a box.

This rosary has been a challenge. Originally I had some beautiful pressed glass beads that I was going to use, but they were a very orange red. They did not work with the great lampwork beads by Amy Waldman Smith. I found the perfect fire polished red beads. I have strung them with sterling silver spacers, the lampwork beads and a few Swarovski crystals to hold the lampwork beads in place.

This is a gift for my friend Debbie's aunt, Sister Rita, who will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of taking her vows as a nun.

Beadwork - Purple Tempest & Metal Forest Star

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.