Tuesday, August 27, 2013

New Earring Designs


Tila Star and "Loop d Loop"  Earrings crafted to coordinate with the Lentil Strata Rolled Necklace...

 The Tila Star earrings are my variation on Fusion Beads pattern Shooting Star using 4 MM Czech Fire Polished Orange/Copper rounds, #11 Duracoat Sea Foam, #8 Topaz rounds and Tila Sage Metalic Rainbow Mate

"Loop d Loop" Earrings uses a brick stitch pattern woven with #15s, #11 Delicas, #11 seed beads and  #8 seed beads. Both earring sets were finished off with copper ear-wires.

Lentil Strata Rolled Necklace made with the new 2-hole lentil beads as the core.
Other color variations of the Tila Star and Loop d Loop Earrings....lots of possibilities.

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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Lentil Strata Rolled Necklace


Corkscrew layers of 4 MM Fire Polished Czech Orange/Copper Glass Beads and #6 Aqua Seed Beads move around a core of 2 hole CzechMates Lentils in Copper/Turquoise Picasso Glass Beads. Also, in the spiral mix are #15, #11 and #8 seed beads topped off with with a  17 MM Antique copper round leaf button by TierraCast, as part of the clasp. This design is a variation of Marcia Balonis's pattern in August 2013 "Bead and Button" magazine, page 30-31. The price of $125 includes shipping and handling.

This necklace is NLA, but special orders are taken upon request.
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