by Barbara | Dec 29, 2013 | Art to Wear, Beading, Beads and Materials, Components, Embellishments, Handmade, Inspiration, Materials and Supplies, One-of-a-Kind, Polymer Clay
Having depleted my recent stash of polymer clay seashell bead/button collections, it was time to make more. This time I chose to make them in a soft shade of metallic charcoal. Individually created in molds from actual seashells that I’ve gathered while on...
by Barbara | Dec 26, 2013 | An Aside, Beads and Materials, Delica beads, Designer Patterns, Handmade, Jewelry kits, Materials and Supplies, One-of-a-Kind, Seed Beads
I must have been a very good girl over this past year because Santa brought me everything that was on my Xmas list! Several gifts were items I truly needed…a keyboard for my iPad (the old keyboard had letters that would stick, which drove me crazy!) and a...
by Barbara | Dec 24, 2013 | An Aside, Handmade, Inspiration, One-of-a-Kind
Wishing you warmth, love, happiness, and all good things this holiday season!
by Barbara | Dec 21, 2013 | Art to Wear, Beading, Beads and Materials, Components, Designer Patterns, Handmade, Inspiration, Jewelry kits, Materials and Supplies, One-of-a-Kind, Tutorials
These yummy beads from SimplyBeads.com just arrived in my mailbox! It’s a nice selection of glass pearls and daggers. Small dagger beads (3mm x 10mm) are rather difficult to find these days. Most bead sellers have a plethora of larger daggers (5mm x 16mm and up)...
by Barbara | Dec 18, 2013 | Art to Wear, Beading, Beads and Materials, Components, Delica beads, Designer Patterns, Handmade, Inspiration, Jewelry kits, Materials and Supplies, Metal Clay, One-of-a-Kind, Polymer Clay, Seed Beads
My latest cuff project has been put on the back burner while I’ve been occupied filling holiday orders these past few weeks. I feel like one of Santa’s elves, busily assembling beading kits and creating more Bead Treasure Box Collections. I am most eager...
by Barbara | Dec 15, 2013 | Art to Wear, Beading, Beads and Materials, Components, Designer Patterns, Found Objects, Handmade, Inspiration, Materials and Supplies, One-of-a-Kind, Polymer Clay, Techniques
Having not worked with polymer clay in quite a while, I realized how very much I have missed the process. I admit that today’s brief interlude would not have occurred had I not run out of the colorful polymer seashells that I have been including in my recent...
by Barbara | Dec 12, 2013 | Art to Wear, Beading, Beads and Materials, Delica beads, Designer Patterns, Handmade, Inspiration, Materials and Supplies, One-of-a-Kind, Seed Beads, Tutorials
More Delicas have arrived! I can’t keep enough of these in beauties in stock! Many colors were all but depleted after assembling beading kits for several of my recent designs. The “Empress Ming Cuff” uses tons of opaque black and the “Parrot...
by Barbara | Dec 9, 2013 | Beading, Beads and Materials, Designer Patterns, Embellishments, Handmade, Inspiration, Materials and Supplies, One-of-a-Kind, Seed Beads
So much depends on the tension with which one beads. My beading is neither too loose nor too tight and that’s a huge plus. I usually use a tape measure to wrap around the widest part of my hand and I compare that measurement with a bangle-sizer band fitted over...
by Barbara | Dec 6, 2013 | An Aside, Beads and Materials, Components, Delica beads, Designer Patterns, Handmade, Inspiration, Jewelry kits, Materials and Supplies, One-of-a-Kind, Seed Beads, Tutorials
Crikey, I can’t’ even see the surface of my beading table anymore! The assembly of beading kits and Colourways Collections has completely taken over my life these past days. Perhaps it was Black Friday or Cyber Monday or the long weekend that has created a...
by Barbara | Dec 3, 2013 | An Aside, Beading, Beads and Materials, Components, Delica beads, Embellishments, Handmade, Jewelry kits, Metal Clay, One-of-a-Kind, Seed Beads
When I was in my 20’s, I had two jobs. I was a cosmetologist, but I also had a part-time job as an Estee Lauder representative. One day as a customer approached the counter, my fellow sales associate said, “Here comes the purple lady!” I inquired...
