A while ago, I gave my mom a Gaea face bead and asked her to bead around it. I didn’t give her any instructions, color suggestions or anything. I knew she would come up with something wonderful.
Meet the Gaea Medusa bead! I love it. The colors are great too. My mom also made some matching beaded components that I can use with this or something else.
I think I must have plied my dad with tales of people who have used rusted metal to good effect in making jewelry. One day on a walk, he found this and saved it for me.
You can see it’s a really good specimen. It’s a little dangerous. It’s got a couple of nails rusted into it that I need to cut off. I hope someday I can transform it into something wonderful.
After a couple of days of very relaxing swimming, taking walks, and sitting on the porch in near perfect weather (a rarity) we took a trip to Michael’s. My mom was looking for a frame, and I needed to restock my smaller sizes of plastic bead baggies. Of course we had to look at the beads as well. The Bead Gallery green label beads were on sale. I picked a couple of different wooden beads I can use as spacers and saw the silver metal connectors Erin Prais-Hintz used in her Halcraft June Pretty Palettes reveal. Lovely! My mom got a strand as well. I added a couple lengths of some fun multicolor lampwork beaded chain.
A fun weekend was had by all!
Bead Love 
Love your mom’s beaded components. Would she mind if you told us what they are lined with? They hold their shape beautifully.
Thank you! My mom used pony beads to bead around. She said she had never seen the big holed one (like the red one you can see inside the gold component you can see next to a blue one at the bottom left) but that’s what they had at Michael’s the day she went, so that’s what she got!
I never would have thought of that! Thanks for sharing.
Good stuff indeed!
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