New Project

I worked on a brand new project over the weekend. It took me awhile but I came up with a new wide bracelet that I LOVE! The bracelet incorporates a pendant that i am going to be teaching in one of my youtube videos in the next few weeks. I came up with a ring originally and then made a pendant to match. (Both of these will be videos.) As I made the pendant I was thinking of how fun it would be to make it into a bracelet. I worked, took apart, worked, took apart, and worked until my head hurt. After a short nap I came back to my beading table with fresh eyes and was able to finish the project. I am going to work next week to get a pattern written so that after the ring and pendant video come out I can then post the bracelet on etsy.com. I love how the purple turned out and can't wait to try it in a few other colors to see how it turns out.


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Finished!

I added my beads and got these babies finished! They are so pretty. I only wished my iPad took better pictures so that you could see the color better.


I worked from home Friday and got the earrings finished and worked literally all day on a new bracelet design. Its very dressy but its loaded with crystals and in my book thats all that matters. :) I'm going to try to work from home on Wednesday so that I can get the pattern written for the bracelet and get a few more videos for the website finished. Meanwhile I'm going to go and get a bangle finished that i've been working on and then dive into a new surprise project. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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Bead Quilled Jewelry

A few years ago a great beading book came out called Bead Quilled Jewelry by Kathy King. I purchased the book loving the concept of the stitch but sadly the book got pushed to the back of the pile and I haven't looked at it for awhile. Two weeks ago I was skimming through my books and came upon the book again. Kathy suggests using size B Nymo thread in a lot of her designs so I purchased all of the available colors for the shop. I don't normally use Nymo so I knew that this was going to be an adventure. I have been so immersed in my designs that I just wanted to step out of my box for a little while and follow someone else's directions. I got my beads together and got to work on one of the first beginner projects in the book. (Page 29 Scroll Earrings) I was so excited by the stitch that I don't think I even looked up from my table for over an hour. This stitch was fresh and different from anything I have ever done. I have been beading everyday for almost 10 years so it was so nice to sit and try something new. I will say this....if you are confident in your stitching then you need to get this book and try it out. The stitch is based on square stitch but you use the thread to accent instead of trying to hide it. The beads sit on their sides so you SEE most of the thread. It took 2 hours but I got the structure of the first earrings made. They are really artsy looking but they are a lot smaller than what I am used to wearing. If someone likes dainty stuff then they will love these earrings. When I get to the shop tomorrow I am going to add some crystals to the top of my structures to make them a little longer. Below is a picture of the structures. I will try and post a picture tomorrow of the finished piece. I used 6mm Red Magma, 4mm Olivine, size B Brown Nymo, and 11/0 silver lined smoked topaz Delicas.



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Wonderful Completed Projects from Beaded Fantasies

Gina Soileau - Double Star Earrings

 

Sue Jensen - Double Star Earrings

3mm gold Bugle beads
3mm turq opals

green chatons

white crystal # 15 seed beads
gold galvanized#11 seeds

4mm bicones crystal ab’s

 

Gina Soileau - Grace Bracelet



I used Preciosa Pearls in a couple of different gold tones. Copper and Antique colored seed beads. Light saphire 4 mm fire polished and 3 mm fire polished chines crystal bicones in a dark saphire AB color.

 

Mk - La Fleur



Blue montana rivoli's

Size 11 Silver seed beads

Size 15 Silver seed beads

4mm red bicones

Lobster clasp

6lb Fireline

 

Tressa Williams - Queenie Bracelet



Size 11 Trans Rainbow Dark Amber AB Seed Beads

Size 11 Metallic Rainbow Violet/Bronze Cylinder Beads

Size 6 Smokey Topaz Seed Beads

Size 15 Metallic Rainbow Seeds

3mm Jet AB2X Bicones

14mm Topaz Rivolis

Gold Clasp

 

Joy Casady - Double Star Earrings



fern green AB 2X 4mm bicones, chrystolite opal chatons & 3mm bicones, matte blue gray 3mm bugles olivine C/L beige AB 11/0s & capri C/L metallic teal 15/0s

 

Deborah Burton - XXOXX Bracelet





8/0 Grape Lined Crystal Seed Beads

11/0 Extra Pale Green Seed Beads

15/0 Tan/Crystal AB Seed Beads

3.4mm Khaki Iris Magatama

3mm Purple Light Bicones

4mm Crystal Champagne Rounds

6mm Lt Amythyst Pearls

Magnetic Ball Clasp in Copper

 

Joy Casady - Queenie Bracelet



 

Karin Vervoort - Queenie Bracelet



6/0 - MC020 Bronze seed beads

15/0 -MC020 Bronze seed beads

Delica - 11/0 DB046-TB Silver Lined Silver Green

11/0 amber colour - my tube does not have a colour on it.

Rivoli is a chinese rivoli - 14mm Sahara

bicones- Topaz AB 3mm Swarovski Element

 

Jayne Wilks - Queenie Bracelet



14mm Rivoli – Clear Crystal

Size 6 beads – Wine Metallic

Size 11 Delica – Silver metallic

Size 11 Seed – Purple Iris

Size 15 Seed – Silver Metallic

4mm Bicone – Crystal AB

 

 

 

 

Queenie Bracelets

Gina Soileau - Queenie Bracelet

Gina Soileau - La Fleur



Crystal AB chatons

3 mm dark saphire bicone's ( chinese crystal )

light blue silver lined size 15 seed beads

gold seed beads size 11

Fireline

Magnetic Clasp

Janie Smith - Queenie Bracelet

14mm Peacock Rivoli
6/0 Bronze
3mm Bicone Jet ab2x
11/0 Galvanized Rose
11/0 Purple Delica
15/0 Galvanized Yellow Gold
Gold Toggle Clasp





 

New Recipe

To say that I love Pinterest is an understatement! I am addicted! I love to try some of the recipes that I pin. I went shopping this afternoon and Sammy decided to try one of the recipes.









I went ahead and took pics on my iPad screen to show you the recipe and the website. The blog that I found the pin from looks great so you need to check it out! The recipe turned out to be pretty good. It still needs a little something though. The filling may need a little less cheese and some sort of seasoning to add a little pizazz to the taste. We had a lot of filling left over so we put it in the fridge and are going to try making a grilled cheese sandwich with it later in the week. I'll let you know how it turns out.

I'm not too thrilled with the Vogue that I bought yesterday! You have to get to almost page 200 before you even see words on a page. The first 200 pages are nothing but advertisements. I'm not loving it so far but I'm just on page 200 so I still have awhile to go.


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I can now get back to my life...

For the last month my life has revolved around cars. I am president of our towns Merchants Association and we have a huge car show every year in August. As president I am one of the main organizers of the event. I am one big stress ball the whole month and my poor husband has to endure it all! I always hate to see August roll around because I know that my business will suffer. I stay so busy with the show that it's hard to juggle both. The car show is how we raise money to put on the Christmas Parade and other events throughout the year so we work really hard to make the show great. But thankfully its all over and now I feel like I can get back to my life and my business.

Tonight I was in the Dollar General and seen the new In Style Magazine. It is huge with 652 pages. The colors are still bright, as they were this summer, but I was so surprised to see so many beads on clothing for the fall. Beads on shoes too! One of my favorites though was the Jewelry Inspiration Page. The colors are so pretty and gem tone. This page is great inspiration for beaders because we can figure out how to make our own pretties with beads. The jewelry on the page is made up of mostly gems but the right Swarovski can give you the same look! As a jewelry designer I always have my eyes open for inspiration and this magazine is a great one! If your feeling like you need some inspiration then this magazine is a must.

I also purchased the new Vogue magazine which has a whopping 916 pages. I'll let you know about it later in the week.





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