Category: Earrings

  • Creative Beading Volume 4

    I got my complimentary copy in the mail today.  Bead & Button picked the “best projects from a year of Bead & Button magazine,” and chose my earrings project (that opened this blog!) as a project to include.  So, if you look at or buy Creative Beading Volume 4, I’m on page 58.

  • Impressionist earrings

    I assembled the blue earrings from the beautiful pile of blue French beads in an earlier post.  They are from Jean Campbell and Judith Durant, Beadwork inspired by art : Impressionist. It’s a beautiful, full earring, lovely motion and texture. I went to a talk by Jean Campbell in February about using art as inspiration…

  • Blue earrings coming soon…

    This is for ONE pair or earrings.  Really!

  • Vielen Dank, Mariposa!

    At the end of December, Mariposa generously wrote detailed instructions for these beaded beads, and posted the pdf on her blog here.  I was able to make the beads without any translation tools, simply using the exploded diagram on the last page. So I could more easily see where the increases were, I counted the beads…

  • Naniboujou spiral complete!

    I used the cab from Drea to make a centerpiece/clasp, and matching earrings. I love it!