Creativity abounding

New necklace in the works. Don't even know the name of it yet. It stared as a matching piece to the Tears of Joy earrings but it's something else or it could go with it bu hmmm you decide.

Right now it's just a work in progress.

First pic is a not so good shot of the center drop beautiful faceted glass and an aquamarine Swarovski bead on Sterling silver wire. With glass pearls in cream.
Next up the stage right of the necklace with Czech glass oblong bead amoung the creamy pearls.


Lastly, the stage left of the necklace, variegated sizes of pearls with a Swarovski aquamarine bicone. It's just lovely.


Just bought a clasp off etsy to go with the necklace and i'm sure it will turn out to be just marvelous.

Work in progress...will post final pictures when the necklace is finally arranged.

Bead Swap August 2009 Part 2

Okay the Bracelet and matchign earrings are finished!

Thank you to Cathy Dailey of CathyDailey's Handcrafted Artisan Findings for the wonderful Hammered Links and the S clasp. Will so order more, my mom wants me to recreate this bracelet set for her.

Here they are:



This experience has been wonderful. I enjoyed creating and making this bracelet and then had to make earrings.

Tropical rainforest, with colors that can go into fall and winter seamlessly. They would so look great with jeans and a cute top (See previous post to see the inspiring plants that helped make this creation possible.). Could een go with a simple black dress.

Getting better at Photo editing and lighting. These were taken outside and i just love the pictures. So happy with the results. This rekindled my passion for creating jewelry. Hope to open my own Etsy or Artfire.com store.

Beaded Bookmarks...Bling for your books!

Okay so i am a bibliophile.

I love books with great covers and great stories..who doesn't?

i find myself trying to coordinate my bookmarks to the story or to the cover...most times the cover...i love great cover art.

So i have made a few beaded bookmarks with Silver Plated Shepard's Hooks. Just so easy to threat a headpin and attach to the hook. Simple and an elegant look.

I'm going to add some to my Ecrater Store. It's hard parting with some of them because i get attached to the look.

I hope the photo editing stuff i Dled from Picasa helps.


This is so pretty. It's got cracked glass and a huge acrylic faceted bead with silver spacers. Every time I look at it, the word that comes to mind is "elegant." Though in the picture it looks very earthy. Any suggestions for a name?

Here is another one with glass beads and swarovksi beads. I have this one in copy of The Hindi-Bindi Club. Great read and has wonderful recipes too! I'm giving Indian cuisine a whirl this week and it's really flavorful! Using cilantro in a new way is so much fun. The flavor just feels so different with masalas. Yum!

I'm also reading a vampire novel and i have these dark burgundy czech beads that i wan tto use for the book. Then there are a few more i just made on a whim. Will post as soon as i can get them scanned and edited. Any suggestions on how to make the beads clear and beautiful would be great. I'm still new to the whole photo editing thingy.

I do take custom orders so if there is some biblio-bling that i can make for you let me know!

Happy Blingn!

Handmade jewelry

I had event i was going to and the jewelry i was looking for didn't exist or wasn't at the price i wanted so what I did was make my own necklace and earrings for the night.

As you can see in the picture the dress is quite nice.

I hadn't made my own jewelry in quite a while but it only took me 20 minutes to whip together the necklace and earrings. I love making jewelry there is just something so wonderful about creating with your hands that is so satisfying.
I decided to call the set Flair. It has

faceted Czech beads in black and clear and I did a set of tiered illusion earrings in coordinating beads. It really catches light well and looked stunning.

I am thinking about picking up beading again and creating some wonderful peices. I am currently in the works of a set that will have beautiful bronze potato pearls and red wine looking Czech glass beads that have a wonderful AB coloring to them. it's going to be a multi-strand necklace and i'm still working outthe earrings and a multistrand bracelet.

I would love to incoporate some druzy gemstone into the focal points of the bracelet just have to look out for ones that go with my color pallette.

I will be posting other things that i have made and may open up an etsy store or one on ecrater. Please contact me if youhave any requests or would liek to place an order. Oh how I love jewelry!