Some trick or treats ... have I mentioned I love this time of year and Halloween is one of my favs? The colors, the candy, the costumes, the decorating, and all this fun jewelry to create in my mind, make with my hands, gift or sell and just plain enjoy. Here are some of my creations for the Season of Halloween and fall.
The bracelet and earrings in St. Petersburg chain are adapted from a pattern on Facet Jewelry's web page.
I found the orange star components below at Heart Beads in Murray, UT. What an awesome bead shop!
One can never have too many skulls or candy corn!
My dear dear friend LuAnn lives in WA state and they are avid SeaHawks fans. After all these years of making her birthday jewelry, it dawned on me this year I should make something she could wear on game day. Duh! Takes me awhile I guess. I saw a wonderful bracelet/earring design by CzechMates Trendsetter Svetlana Einy -- using four hole quadratiles, size 11 and 15 sb, and 2mm fp. I don't usually bead with silver beads, or use silver wire, ... but you have to get out of your comfort palette from time to time, and for this girl, it seemed perfect this year -- LOVE YOU LU!
Next up an incredible pendant design by Penny Dixon - it's supposed to be earrings, and as with many of Penny's creations, if I get one done... I'm feeling lucky. This one took on a JDreams life of its own at the end, as I made a couple errors (imagine!), which sometimes takes me on a lovely side journey, and things turn out great. So, on this journey, I ended up adding some little flowers to the bottom round on either side!! I absolutely love this piece and will post once I have an idea of how I'll finish it. I used 2-hole crescents, 3mm fp, size 11 and 8 sb, and for the flower add-ons I used pips, 2mm melon rounds and size 15 sb. This pattern used RAW, and I worked very diligently to get it down. It took some practice!
A couple more metal projects using stencils and paint -- so much fun! Thanks to Heather at Humblebeads for inspiring me to try this technique - she does incredible, fun projects and takes us along to explore new art dimensions. It just takes a steady hand (hard as you get older!!), a piece of metal, some Vintaj paints, and a stencil. So many options to explore with stencils... I love these sets. I added some chain and some danglies for the necklaces and assembled some darlin' earrings to go with. Dress em up or down. My daughters-in-law look great in these darlin' sets! Just like new fall clothes, you gotta have a new fall set for your ears and neck too! :)
