It is the first day fall here in Weston. So I am going to take a look a back at some of the beading I did this summer. Some I have blogged about and some I have not.
Summer started with those three great classes with
Jean Power,
zinnias,
frames and
stars. Following the class I finished the zinnia and not just one star but 4.
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| Finished Zinnia |
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| Finished Stars |
In July I was part of the
Bead Hoarder's Blog Hop. Using some of the beautiful beads I had been saving I made four different sets of jewellry. Here is my favourite, using beads by
Jennifer Tough that I have had stashed in a little metal Swarovski box.
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| Bead Hoarder's Set |
I took a great class at
beadfx with
Pamela Kearns. The
shooting star pendant is from the book Crystal Play by
Anna Elizabeth Draeger. In class I did one with jet & red coral Swarovski crystals and silver seed beads.
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| First Shooting Star Pendant |
I did a secod one later in the summer with green seed beads, green and yellow Swarovski crystals. It is not quite the look I was hoping for. I likely remake it with some brown seed beads to look like a wooden trellis for the flower-like cluster of crystals.
In August I
posted about the piece I created with the polymer clay component by Alenka of
Pepita Handmade. It was a fun challenge that push me to make something very different then usual!
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| Pepita Handmade necklace |
The last challenge of the summer was the
Cabochon Challenge. I loved this reversal pendant project from the August issue of
Bead & Button by
Amy Kohn made with Lunasoft cabs. I have been wearing the Red/Grey pendant and love being able to flip the piece during the day.
After blogging about
Peyote stitch on the
Rypan Designs' blog I decided to make a few projects from
Diane Fitzgerald's Shaped Beadwork book. I love the Celtic Trefoil design. It was interesting to see this go from a long loose knot of 99 delicas to a beautiful Celtic Knot Trefoil pendant.
To finish my first one I used short lengths of chain and small Swarovski crystals.
The second one has just silver chain.
My third is accented with mauve Swarovski Pearls.
I also started to play with the pointed ovals from Diane's book. I was looking to use them to create a flower brooch. I was inspired by this photo I found online a number of years ago.
Here is one of the pointed ovals in progress.
Five ovals worked together in to a flower. I just need to figure a way to hold it together as a wearable brooch.
Here is the necklace that I made with the beads that my friend Maria got for me at Bead & Button show. The beautiful owl pendant is accent with ceramic, copper and wooden beads.
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| Owl necklace |
Back in July I purchased some
amazing ceramic beads from Kathi Mohlman of
Earth n Elements Pottery. The urchin beads I wanted to put them with the
Sea Urchin beaded bead from
Marcia DeCoster's Beaded Opulence book. I added some fire-polished beads and pearls.
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| Sea Urchin Necklace |
I finished a few other projects for fall challenge reveals. Stay tuned to see some other fun projects.
