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Vintage Italian seeds and silver “coral”
The hazard of putting supplies away is that you find things with which to play! I purchased this silver-plated bead from Rings & Things that looks like a coral branch perhaps two months ago, because it appealed to me — no intended purpose. It was in a pile to put away (yes, it can take…
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Hang the Moon
Check out what my friend Cyndi Lavin did with the bail I designed for the open Swarovski square: Photograph by Cyndi Lavin, used with permission. I love it! Here are her instructions. If you don’t already have the bail instructions (B&B Creative Beading vol 4, or B&B December 2007), you can purchase them from Buy…
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Button necklace
I was scanning the book Bead Journey, a Kalmbach stringing publication, and saw a project stringing large tagua nuts shaped as buttons. It was a belt, connected with long loops of beading wire covered by rubber tubing. The tagua beads reminded me of these bone large-hole buttons that I bought more than 20 years ago…
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Knotting….
This was a nice little project. I’ve only knotted a couple of times, it’s kind of a nice project to do. I have a friend who strings the beads, then will sit in front of the television with a needle and knots while “watching.” I used a needle too, to pull the knots down next…
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More olive!
The last piece of jewelry I made for myself was olive too. I DO work with other colors, these are just the colors I am using right now. I bought these cubic zirconia beads and pearls from Baubles and Beads, a splurge for me. I’d like to knot them. The strand of cz’s is probably…