Sunday Necklaces

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Andrew Thornton, Artists for Animals Auction, Crow's Cache Supplies, Lillypilly Designs, The Great Bead Extravaganza

I made three necklaces today! I’ll show you two of them. The other is for a challenge next week. I’ve been watching presentations at The Great Bead Extravaganza – Midsummer Market this weekend. Andrew Thornton did a thrown down challenge – make something with blue, the number 6 (however we interpret that) and a natural material. I love that sort of challenge because it’s very specific yet totally open, so it really gets the creative juices flowing. If you aren’t a member of The Great Bead Extravaganza, you can join and watch any of the presentations you missed from this weekend and previous presentations.

This first necklace uses purple flower opal chip beads and a gorgeous connector from Crow’s Cache Supplies. I’m going to keep this.

I came across this Lillypilly pendant in my stash and got out some materials that I thought would go well with it. Here is how it turned out.

This necklace I made for the next Artists for Animals Auction. I like to make pieces over time so I’m not rushing and stressed at the very end. It has horn, glass, and turquoise beads.

I hope you are finding some creative time.

New Makes

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Earthenwood Studio, Lillypilly Designs, My Elements, Scorched Earth on Etsy, The Classic Bead, Tracee Dock, Vintaj, Yvonne Irvin-Faus

I feel like I haven’t been that productive lately, so I wanted to get into the studio today and make a couple of things. I decided to pick a bead artist, look at my stash for that artist, and pick something out. I chose Tracee Dock of The Classic Bead. I had so many good pendants! But today the polka dots spoke to me.

I decided to try some colorful chain. I had some rosary chain with several of the dot colors, but it was missing purple, and that felt really glaring to me. I recently got a variety of beautiful chain from Yvonne Irvin-Faus of My Elements. It included a mottled purple color, so I got that out. Perfect! 

I still had the rosary chain on my table. I decided to use one of the beads to bring out the other dominant color in the pendant by using it as a dangle. This is a fun one.

Also on my bead table was a resin piece I made last weekend. I had a connector bezel and asked my brother-in-law to draw something in his style to put in it. I love how it looks (I’ve asked him to do more for other bezels.)

I planned to use it in a bracelet, so I got out some other components. I used two Earthenwood square connectors in the same colorway and a round Lillypilly Designs wooden bead with a similar swirly design.

I also included some Vintaj pieces and a clear vintage plastic bead. On the square Vintaj component, I added a little Vintaj dragonfly charm I had pantinaed and a Scorched Earth on Etsy ceramic charm. While I often like bright colors, I love the subtle coloring in this.