Two pieces!

A fun necklace:



I used organza ribbon on the pendant. Easiest thing ever!

And an amethyst bracelet to match the necklace I made earlier:



This one gave me a bit of trouble. I used elastic cord, and had a terrible time covering up the knot.

Crabby re-do and new beads!

I decided to make a different necklace with the crab pendant. I used blown glass beads and silver seed beads.



Bead shopping- Michaels is discontinuing the blown glass beads, so I bought three different designs, two each.



And I'm ordering these beautiful peridot teardrops from firemountain.com:



I'm going to design a necklace with freshwater pearls and smaller peridots around these drops, with earrings to match.

Bookmarks!

Small charms and beads on hemp cords. Easy as pie.

This is cute, but what do I do with it?

It's from the newest line from Blue Moon Beads, Noir. It's a pendant, but it doesn't really have a place for a bail or jump ring! I'll probably just thread it on a ribbon.



I finished a bracelet last night:

I made it to go with the pink necklace from this post:

http://kirabeads.blogspot.com/2009/03/two-more-new-pieces.html

Same beads, except for the silver spacer I used to cover the elastic cord's knot. That was from Blue Moon. I have a bunch more of those, and I can't wait to use them!

Beading inspirations...

I have been going through different bead magazines over the past few months, and I have some favorites.

Stringing is only published four times a year, but it's full of great projects with easy to follow directions.

Beadwork is published six times a year, and is for very serious beaders. There are a lot of beautiful projects, but most are out of my reach! They make me want to go out and learn new things. I doubt I'll ever reach the skill levels required, though.

Just playing around...

Not quite sure what I'm going to do, but here are a couple of things I'm messing around with.

Chinese style ceramic beads and clear flourite stones:



Amethyst and seed beads, with a heart charm that can be threaded with a bead.