CERAMIC PENDANT HEART ENSEMBLE

This is one of my favorite pieces (well, they all are!), sold to one of my best customers!  I love these ceramic "Golem" designed hearts.  They aren't too big and come in lots of different color designs.  The coral and green are so great together, and you can wear it all year- round.  Some fire polish, some glass rounds, some wonderful little cut coral flowers with coral rounds, strung together with these darlin' bronze flower bead caps, chain and spacers.  I know this piece will bring you lots of joy when wearing, Kriss! 

 

 

 

AN OWL, A BIRD and FREE FORM WIRE WRAPPING AND STRINGING!

A dear friend of mine is celebrating her birthday today (Happy Birthday Susan!) and she kept giving me hints that she likes "mismatched" jewelry, which is a difficult thing for a girl like me who likes to "match"!  But, alas, I thought, "it's her birthday, so give it a try"!  And try I did.  I think I can... I think I can... I think I can...  I'm very happy with the way this turned out and hope she is too!  

 

The owl and bird are both ceramic, along with a little feather chain and tagua nut rounds in three colors, and two holed lentels with sead beads up the left side and two different chain links on the right side.  The owls on the earrings are different as well... It was a fun project!

 

         And, last but never least, two ADORABLE grandsons on a wonderful carousel! 

 

 

EASY NECKLACE/EARRING PAIRing (wire wrapping and jump ringin') FOR FALL

I love September because that means Fall is basically here and it's almost HALLOWEEN.  I think Fall is my favorite time of year as the nights get cooler - whew is that a nice change here in Boise!  Unfortunately, that means the days get shorter too - but I have good lighting at my beading table, so decided I'd get to work on something light and fun for this new Season!  Ahhh big seed beads, and wood ones at that.  Like it!  I started with the spider - "He" screams Fall and Halloween.  I'm afraid of real spiders, but  of course, glass I can handle!  I loved him the minute I saw him - small crystals adorn his body so he sparkles.  oooooh, scarey!   I attached him to jump ring chain filled with green wood 6mm sbs, then added a few orange, purple, and yellows to spruce it up.  A fun, quick project and with one quick snap of the magnet, off I go...

 

 

Then I made a few different earring styles to go with - hadn't really thought about using colored wood beads on jump rings before, but think they turned out great!

 

 

These are just soooo easy and fun. I bought the earring metal rounds ready-made, threaded on some 6 sb, (it took me going through many many beads to find those with a hole large enough to slide onto the metal) and 6mm fp in the center (with small dainty beadcaps) and the final touch... small heart charms. There will be more revealed in my next post relative to these earrings. They really go with a different necklace of spiral herringbone, but I forgot to take a picture, so next time…

 

  

  And, last but not least, I had these tagua nut rondelles in mutli colors, so on to the jump rings they went.  These are all light on the ears, which make them very wearable... and oh, so fun.