South Western Earrings

Another piece of jewelry my grandma snapped up right after I made them :) I really love these ones I have a few more of these types of earrings I'll be posting over the next few days.

Happy Beading,

Jessica

Swirly Green Lampwork Bracelet

                            A bracelet I made for myself with this bead I made a few days ago :)

                                                                    Happy Beading,
                                                                           Jessica

Fringed bracelet

The finished bracelet from my last post. :)






Happy Beading,
Jessica

New Beads

Yay I love getting new beads, but it doesn't happen very often when you live in a small town. I either have to order online or go out of town to buy beads. Not this time though a vender from out of town came today and set up a display and all the beads were 30% off! I've never worked with charlottes before, but they were so pretty I got some to try, and they were only $3.00 so why not.


Happy Beading,
Jessica

Flower

It seems every time I sit down to bead I create something with a flower in it. These flowers took an hour and a half each to make. I hope you like it :)













Happy Beading,
Jessica

The Necklace That Took Three Days

   I have been working on this necklace for the last three days and it's finally complete and ready to share. I just finished it and it's a little after 10 pm., but I couldn't wait until morning to take pictures I'm to excited to share it with you so please excuse the poorly lit photos. I really like this necklace a lot. :) It would seem I'm a little addicted to including flowers in my necklaces though I just think there so fun and girly. I hope you like it as much as I do!

How gorgeous is that 27mm Swarovski crystal!? It sparkles like nobodies business. I have them in four other colors too. I had six but two of them have been put to work already :) I really hope to get the time (and money) to start beading again I've been making a necklace here and there for awhile, but I haven't been beading as much as I use to. I think part of that is that the pieces I have been making are way more time consuming than my older ones were. I really want to make a big (maybe a bit overdone) necklace like the ones people make as show piece that they enter into contest like at bead and button and things like that. I'm not sure why I have the urge to do that because those kinds of pieces take a LOT of time a LOT of beads and a LOT of work for a necklace that probably won't get to be worn very often. I really have no attention span either which is probably why the above necklace took me three days to finish I kept picking it up and sitting it back down after doing one or two pieces of it. Although for my benefit it does take me four to six hours to do just a plain netted necklace and that's going nonstop until I finish it. I don't know it's just an idea first I have to figure out what it is I want to make :)

Happy Beading,
Jessica

It's Official

It's official I'm obsessed with making little beaded flowers :) I'm super proud of these in particular because I came up with the pattern all on my own :D I made a few into earrings and a couple into necklaces. I really like how they turned out. Please let me know what you think :) Oh and please excuse my foot for making an appearance in some of the photos ha ha.

I hope you like them as much as I do :)
Happy Beading,
Jessica

Vitrail Medium

I'm in love with Vitrail Medium. It's color is like no other. Depending on the angle you look at it, it could be deep red, bright green, dark green, or teal. I LOVE IT! It's a pain to photograph though.

Hope you like it :)

Happy Beading,
Jessica

Chevron

I've really been enjoying my little venture into the world of seed beads. Here's another tutorial I tried out it's really easy and takes very little time to do. click here to be taken to the tutorial I used :) Now on to the pictures.

I really enjoy making them and their quite cute :) I hope you like them too.

Happy Beading,
Jessica

Rivoli

Rivoli- a term I have only recently come to understand. I love rivolis their made by swarovski so you know their sparkle is outrageously beautiful. Take a look at this necklace I made using them.

I hope you like it :)

Happy Beading,
Jessica

Other People's Beads

Every once in a while someone comes to me and asks if I can make them a piece of jewelry using beads from some of their old jewelry or something. I find it a pretty interesting challenge to work around certain beads. Here's a necklace I made made using someone else's beads. (the nugget beads are theirs)

I hope you found this interesting :)

Loops

This is so pretty with the sun hitting it :) It's so shiny. One thing you should know about be is I love shiny things lol. Another thing is I love seed beads, but I hate taking the time to string them all on  lol. Red is a really hard color for me to work with, but I love how it looks with this necklace.

Hope you like it! :)

Burgundy Necklace

As you can tell I couldn't figure out a very good title for this one lol. I'm not sure quite how to explain it either lol. So let's go straight to the pictures ^_^

It has alot of the same colors as yesterday's post, but this one is alot more simple. I really need to start making longer necklaces lol. I hope you liked it. ^_^ 

Flat Spiral Stitch

I really adore this "stitch" (even though each bracelet takes over two hours to make) it's called the "flat spiral stitch" hence the title ;) I've made quite a few of these and everyone seems to really like them ^_^ (to see more click here) I hope you like them too ^_^

Enjoy ^_^