Back to home & business

Well, I've returned from my island vacation with my sweetheart. I'm already missing him. I wish he had come back with me.

Monday begins work. I'm really not ready for that.

Anyway, my etsy shop is now reopen! Feel free to stop by!

In a week or so I'll have the new tutorials up! -a ring, cross, bangle, clasp & bracelet, and 2 earring types are all in the works!

Gorgeous hotel room in Miami, Fl

This hotel room is lovely! I flew back into the States through Miami. Only staying over night because am 8 hour layover was ridiculous! I probably won't even leave the hotel room!! Air conditioning after 2 months of none!!! Woot!

Precious Peace- using up bits and pieces! When I get home I have to make more polyclay flowers. I'm running low! Need to experiment with profile faces and hats!

Tiara

Tiara Day 2011

I've wanted to make a tiara for a while. I put it off and did other pieces. My friend Cor-Owl recently posted one of her FB page. I decided why not make a day of it- Tiara Day! So the challenge was to make a tiara ( or buy one if you don't make jewelry), post a pic of you and your tiara on FB, and have fun being a queen for a day!

I started working on mine last night. This is what I came up with :). I wasn't sure if I liked the piece up side down or as a crown. So here are pics of both :)

Now of course I could not take queen pics and leave out the fantasy! Photo Wizard iPhone app- yeah! Hence my transformation to the Blue Queen.

New Agape Cross Ring !!!

Here is 1 style of clasp I'm working on!

I've been ensconced in these swirl crosses and boned bangles! I just keep getting ideas! So I'm writing them all down and working up prototypes.

I love this clasp! Definitely not a shrinking violet component :)

Several tutorials coming soon!

Vacation tut experiments

The last few days I've been working on brick and peyote stitch. I've been trying to learn the ins and outs. I saw an awesome sculptural piece I'd love to be able to try, but I had to learn the basics. Needless to say it was stressful.

Today, I took time to relax with my wire!!! I wrote a new cross tutorial. It will come out for sale mid August. I made a bangle. A free tut I'll post. Maybe I'll just do one for right here on the blog- no download needed :) I also made this insect looking piece. I'm thinking a bracelet. Maybe a second free tut!

I like bead weaving! The versatility is awesome, but when I really need to chill and release tension- wire, wire, wire!!!!

Brick stitch & peyote stitch learning curve

Ive been working on learning the ins and outs or peyote and brick stitch. I wanted to have flowers and leaves to add toy polyclay faces since I'm running out oh Czech glass & polyclay ones. Not bad.

I've decided to focus on those two bead stitches for the rest of summer :)

Double everything pendant! Vacation piece #2

This is the double everything pendant ice been working on this week! Finally finished it- 2 polyclay faces, 2 shells, 2-sided! Beach time!

The summer if wire and faces!

Vineyard!

Ahhhh huge sigh if relief! I've been on vacation without my beading supplies for 13 days! That is an eternity for a bead addict! Finally 2 days ago my sweetheart went to the post office to pick up my beads and wire boxes I'd shipped down here to St. Croix USVI. Bless him!- he staved off my mental frustration! Woot, Baby! Lol.

I started this piece a couple of days before I left on vacation. I spent half of yesterday finishing it! Vineyard- the result of 13 days pent up creativity - now unleashed! :)

I have a feeling I'm going be doing a lot of face pieces this vacation.

Flying through the air

It's amazing what earth looks like when you're flying! I wonder if birds think so?