Beads By Laura: Strawberry

 

I got my lampwork strawberry in the mail today from Beads By Laura. It is so cute :) I love how the leaves are two different shades of green.

 

Happy Beading,

Jessica

 

 

Olive Green Fringe Earrings

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Jessica

Fringe Necklace

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Jessica

Flower Fringe Earrings

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Jessica

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.

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Jessica

~*Enchanted*~

My favorite frit (of the moment) is a Val Cox frit called Enchanted. These beads are made with a base of cim plum a very pretty purple then rolled in the Enchanted frit. I love all the different colors that are in this frit there's greens, purples, and blues.

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Jessica

Rainy Day Necklace

 It was hard to get pictures today. It was really rainy out.

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Jessica

Why, Hollow There

These beads are a bit of a pain to make but, they are really cool since the inside is hollow. You make them by making two disk beads side by side but with a gap in between. Then as you build the disks up they will start to cup into each other. When they get on a tiny gap between the two tops of the disks you can seal them off together as one big hollow bead. As you round the bead out in the flame the air that's caught inside will expand and keep the bead from deflating so make sure you don't have any holes in your bead.

Happy Beading,
Jessica

P.S. which is your favorite? I really like the one with the hearts on it ♥

What Do Ya Think?

 I'm not really sure how I feel about this one I like the colors but I'm not overly happy with the bead designs. Oh well I'm still learning I'm sure I'll get better at this bead making stuff :) On the bright side my grandma really liked them and happily adopted this necklace :)

 The Focal

The Accent Beads

And The Spacers

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Jessica

Swirly Green Lampwork Bracelet

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

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                                                                           Jessica

More Lampwork Beads :)

Is anyone getting tired of seeing these yet? I have more in the kiln now although I'm not sure how well they'll turn out (today was not a good lampwork day). Let me know if you want to see more. I'm going to try and get a few more jewelry related post out soon maybe redo my netting tutorial with better photos? Not sure yet but I will have more beads tomorrow (and will post them when i take photos) and hopefully I'll be making more tomorrow also.

Happy Beading,

Jessica

Green and Cream

I really love these big swarovski focals in netted necklaces. This one is in the color Chrysolite it's a beautiful minty green color.

It's really difficult to take photos of a necklace on yourself. I took probably 20 photos if not more and these two were the only ones that came out half way decent. Oh and on a side note I'VE GRADUATED!!!!!!!! I'm so excited I've been home schooled since 8th grade and I graduated about two weeks ago a year earlier than I would have in public school so YAY. :)

Happy Beading,
Jessica