Just finished this one yesterday! A brooch. Glass cabs, assorted seed beeds. The copper studs are beadcaps, I love them as accent beads.

And now what?

Gave away the hollow beads you find on my site, the red one and the goldish one. Started a new one, just for my own pleasure. It's going to be fab.
So back into hermit mode, away from people, gossip, messy divorces, whatever, and into my own little world where beads lock into their designated places without too much trouble.

Early spring

Sometimes a date can be connected to such different things, and the human mind, always searching for connections, reasons, explanations, gives its own story to that date. Connects concepts, ideas, emotions...
For such a complicated date I made this. Another Moon, a spring moon, new leaves and buds and the smell of growing grass and unfolding greens. A new beginning.
It's on its way to someone, so this is a bit of a sneak preview. I don't know how it will be received though.

Mother of pearl cab, seed beads, firepolished facet beads, swarovski bicones. Backed with green ultrasuede.

Spring is already happening. Spring is a state of mind.

Something quite different

For a while I tried needle tatting. Nice to do, but I don't like fabric jewellery. Still, I love the winding motifs. This pendant, with a center stone of white and gray, is a bit way off my usual beaten track but it asked for ornate. So I had this small piece of filigree lying about, and it seemed to make a nice combo. On top of the filigree I added an aventurine bead. Next to the center stone 2 swarovski crystals (yes I do have some of those, even though I generally don't like working with them) and lots of seed beads in a floral/lacey motif. Backed with suede. It needs a bail. And it's very rrrromanticcc even though the colours speak of envy and gossip and all those other bad, bad fun things that come with it. Hope you like it - the odd one out.

Sign of Life

At last a new pendant. I had a serious case of beader's block going on. Now this may not be the most brilliant thing I ever made, but she's here, she's real, and finished!

Bad picture, sorry. It seems so easy to use a phone for this sort of thing but somehow - must be old age - it never works properly.

Anyway, I'm back for a bit, and really enjoyed working on this Lady. The picture doesn't show it, but the top cab is dark mother of pearl, the middle bit is glass en below that, a cowry shell.Seed beads, both Toho and very irregular Chinese ones, because I wanted it to have a primitive feel. The green beads are aventurine. So here she is.

Still here 2

Just to let know that I haven't deserted my blog. Every now and then I check my blog to find that people from the most faraway places have come to take a look! Thank you for your visits, it's really an encouragement to try and keep on beading!
Right now I am again working on a hollow bead. It's progressing very slowly. Why? I had to restart about three times because it didn't work out. And somewhere there is a dream image of the ultimate Hollow Bead that keeps escaping me.
Family matters etc. took up a lot of my energy, but now it's summer holiday and the weather is going to get good, at last! So I hope to have something new to show you soon!

Still here...

It's been some time since I last posted on this blog. But I am still here. And still beading, though not much to show for it.
Here's a rather bad picture of a necklace I finished today. It's for my sister's birthday next Sunday. Simple materials, tigereye, seed beads and firepolished glass facet beads. I hope she'll like it.
That's all for now. On my beading tray there's another hollow bead that needs finishing. Maybe it will be ready next week.