A New Fun Thing

This is something I have never made before.  What do you all think?  Is there a market for them?  I mean, do lots of people wear shawls and scarves?

This one is for my friend.  We wear shawls here sometimes and this was fun to make but I can't decide if they'd sell.  Chime in everybody!  :D

Seeing Stars

So, I got all these cool enameled stars and wanted to make all kinds of fun things.  I LOVE stars!  So, here's a pix of the *before*:

and the *after*:

Stellar, don'tcha think?  :D

Serendipity

A few years ago my clay friend Ginger gave me a round ceramic box to cover.  I made cool leaves and flowers that look like they had melted on the leaves.  ;( Being far too lazy to *do* anything about the melted flowers, I left them until a couple weeks ago when I was washing a few layers of cat fur off the top.  It came right off the ceramic box and a flower broke.  Yay!

So, I took all the melted flowers off and threw them away and left the leaves, which I must say, were very cool.  I put the leaves on my work table then decided to make some fun sea glass.  I got my glass all done and no matter what I thought of... it sounded ugly. Then, I looked at the leaves, and I looked at my faux sea glass, and POOF!  Instant match!  This is the result:

I was SOO happy!  The *rope* is wire with seed beads coiled around it and attached to a fun vine-looking wire wrap that I thought would look good with the leaves.  A wire wrapped clasp and earrings and it's all done.  :D

Holy Crow..It's Been TWO Months!

Yikes,  Two months since I was here.  I wonder if I have and friends left?

My friend Lee makes dichroic glass.  She makes other stuff, too, but her dichroic is just great!  So, I wanted to tell you about her shop.  I've purchased several pieces for bead embroidery and they are beautiful. In the picture below, you will see a necklace I made.  Lee kindly gave me that cab and I thought it was so cool that she ought to have it to wear as an advertisement for her beautiful glass.  So I made this necklace and sent it back to her.  She's in the Chicago area.

So, it came out nice, didn't it?  Maybe I should ask for it back?  No?  Ok, she gets to keep it.  :D  Isn't that brick pattern cool, tho?  LOVE those colors!

So, please go visit Lee's Etsy shops.  Let's see if I can do this so the links are clickable:
www.etsy.com/shop/beadsbuttonsandmore
www.etsy.com/shop/beadsbuttonsdichroic
Please do pass on Lee's name to anyone who loves dichroic.  Happy Beading!  Happy Claying!  Happy everything!
xoxoxo