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15 Saturday Aug 2020

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Andrew Thornton: Project Destash, Famous Vintage Bead Hoard Liquidation Destash, Heather Powers, Luciana Lavin, Vintaj

I’m on vacation, so I went up to my studio just to see what happened. Maybe I would clean, maybe I’d work on a project for an upcoming challenge, maybe…. And then I saw a red glass heart bead I’d gotten a while ago from Andrew Thornton: Project Destash.

I had wire wrapped it with a tiny turquoise Czech glass bead. I can’t even remember the project, but I didn’t end up making it. But I loved how the dark red looked with the turquoise color, so that sent me down a path. I didn’t have a headpin of the right type, so I used wire. Since that gave me the option for an eye pin, I decided to add a small tassel with some chain in the dark red that was on my table.

This is a picture of the necklace described in the blog post.

I played around with that a bit and was using a turquoise bead that had been part of packaging with a necklace I bought from Luciana Lavin. Check out her work. It’s gorgeous! She had also included a tiny little seed beaded tag perfect to use at the bottom of my tassel!

The metal rectangle is a vintage piece I got from Famous Vintage Bead Hoard Liquidation Destash. I got a bag of them. I’m not sure what they are. They are curved and have two spiky bits on each side that I cut off and then flattened the piece. It doesn’t look perfectly smooth on one side, but it has been filed to smoothness. I would not have bought such a thing because I wouldn’t have known what to do with it except that I saw something similar in this Heather Powers video. When the pandemic began, Vintaj gave away kits called Rise and Design. There was a piece included that Heather cut, flattened and used to beautiful effect in a bracelet. I have that kit and planned to make a similar bracelet (still might) but the best type of tutorial not only shows you how to do something, but also inspires you to take the technique and make it your own.

I considered a variety of turquoise colored beads for the strand. These won because I wanted to cover the crimps where it connects with the metal piece with a large hole bead. I used seed beads that matched the metal piece as spacers. I think it turned out very well and was a fun piece to work on.

More Jewelry I Bought

28 Saturday Apr 2018

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Diana Ptaszynski, Heather Millican, Jennifer Heynen, Jennifer Jangles, Luciana Lavin, Nunn Design, Staci Louise Originals, Staci Louise Smith, Swoondimples

I wrote a post a while ago about jewelry I bought. If I didn’t make jewelry, I would buy a lot more. But making so much, I don’t have extra money or space (or reason) to buy much. However, I still love it, and every once in a while there is a piece I just really want. Here are a few I’ve purchased recently(ish).

I had my eye on this bracelet by Heather Millican of swoondimples for quite a while. I think the fact that it didn’t sell out from under me means it was meant to be mine.

I just can’t get a grip on sizing when it comes to bangles, and I worried this might be too small. Then she had a sale, so I decided to take a chance. So glad I did because the fit is great and I love everything about this bracelet.

The part I love the most is the rustic polymer piece that is stamped “as is”. What a great sentiment. I also appreciate the little touches like the tiny charms wire wrapped with beads to provide a little movement. One of the charms is stamped with Heather’s initials.

Next up is a necklace by Staci Louise Smith. It is simple and just shines with the beauty of the materials. I also made a necklace with one of Staci’s soldered hoops. I wish I had a whole drawerful of those!

I really admire great seed bead and color work, and Luciana Lavin exemplifies this. I bought this great seed bead necklace.

This comes in more than one colorway, but this one is so me. The lighting was not good for pictures today, but I wanted a full picture so you could see the shape and length. Here is a close up of the work.

It has great little details like how there are bits of color mixed in with the black and white strand and the little metallic beads in there as well. Below is the cute box it came in. There was also a card with some beads strung on it, including a tiny seed beaded charm I can use in a project! 

Back to bracelets, Diana Ptaszynski rebranded herself from Suburban Girl Studio to Diana Ptaszynski Whimsical Ceramic Art. She makes a lot of wonderful creatures. Here I bought a bangle with a little cat charm. It has become a favorite to wear. 

One more bracelet I bought is a Nunn Design square bangle. I actually bought it to alter in a project idea I had. However, I love it so much just by itself that I decided to wear it as is.

One more thing to show you is these great little dishes I got from Jennifer “Jangles” Heynen. They are so cute. They will be good for holding different beads when doing projects, holding up items for photos and just looking darn cute. They are size graduated and nest!

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