A very quick project!

Two pretty foil hearts, some gold beads and wire, and voila! Earrings!



I need to tighten the wires a bit, and might have to use a little glue to keep the little beads from slipping. But this only took 15 minutes!

New beauties to work with!

Foil hearts and lampwork floral beads, and two large blown glass beads. I have an idea for the flowers, and the hearts will become earrings. They were very expensive, so I decided to only get a pair.

My mom gave me a new book- Wire Jewelry Workshop. I've never really done any wirework before- but this book has good step by step instructions. I'll give it a go!

Finished pearls and peridots!

This took about three hours- and would have taken longer if I didn't have the bead spinner!




The peridots aren't the highest quality, but the imperfections add a bit of charm, in my opinion!

Feeling a bit green...

I've started work on a necklace with pearls and peridots. I've done the first strand- peridot colored glass seed beads with a few loose pearls.





I found a gold mesh ribbon (made in Italy) that will look good with the necklace. I'm working on the second strand, which will mix freshwater pearls, peridots, and tiny 14K gold beads. I should finish it tonight or tomorrow night.

A new project!

I did this in less than two hours last night- that bead spinner really saved me some time. All of the beads are from Blue Moon.



I'm going to get a lot of use out of that new toy!

My new toy!

Cool and fun to use!



A bead spinner, which really cuts down on time spent stringing seed beads. I'm having fun with it.

The bead grab bag, May edition!

The large assortment of interesting beads from Fire Mountain that Mom chose for me:



The peridots- and an idea I have for them.

Damage repaired!

I fixed my necklace. I used a double wire to make it stronger. Hopefully this time it won't fall apart! I'll post a picture later.

My big box of beads arrived today! Mom ordered a lot of extra fun stuff- some crackle glass beads, pearls in funky colors, and small millefiori beads. The peridots are lovely, but they're so tiny! I can't wait to work with them.

Disaster!

The beautiful necklace I made in January broke suddenly while I was at dinner last night!



I think I picked up all of the beads- I do have some extra in case I did lose some. I'll have to re-do it with stronger wire...

I made this quick bracelet for someone's birthday:



Most of the beads came from Beyond Beautiful.