Thursday, July 30, 2009

Torrid Topaz




This piece is a necklace and bracelet set. For the necklace I used beading wire. I strung 10 seed beads from a "brown topaz" mixture, then two larger glass beads, one gold one brown, next a 6 mm wooden bead, then a lampwork bead from another mixture of browns and golds, followed by another wooden bead, two glass beads, and 10 seed beads. I continued this pattern until the desired length. I then strung a short length piece using the same pattern and the long one. I took both ends of each piece, the short and the long, and connected them together with a 2 mm crimp bead and a 3 mm crimp cover. I finished it off with jump rings, and a lobster clasp. For the bracelet I did the same pattern as the necklace except with 20 seed beads, and no lampwork beads. It is long in length and meant to be wrapped around the wrist 3 times.


Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Amethyst Fusion



This piece is a necklace and bracelet set. For the necklace I used beading wire as the material. I strung 20 seed beads at random from a mixture of purples, then a 4 mm amethyst gemstone bead followed by a 6-7 mm peacock blue gray potato pearl and again followed by a 4 mm gemstone bead and 20 seed beads. I repeated this pattern until I got the desired length. I finished it off with 2 mm crimp beads, 3 mm silver crimp bead covers, jump rings, and a lobster clasp. I attached an abalone heart pendant with a jump ring in the center of the necklace. The bracelet is a long size that can be wrapped around 3 times. I did the same design/pattern as the necklace and used a smaller abalone heart pendant as the centerpiece.


Ocean Tide


This piece is a necklace and bracelet set. For the necklace I used beading wire. I strung 4 separate strands of different color glass beads. I connected them at the end with 2 mm crimp beads, jump rings and a lobster clasp. I attached the pendant with 0.8 mm elastic beading cord. I made 5 bracelets with the same glass beads as the necklace but in random order, and 0.8 mm elastic beading cord.