I know it has been a while since I posted. There have been several family crises and health issue to deal with. Although not perfect everything is moving along right now. I have some new things to post once they are finished. The newest thing I have gotten into is felting. I just love it. I made a couple of felted vessels but haven't taken pictures as of yet. I will post the pictures in a couple of days. Check back again!

Thanks for visiting.

We had a swap called Beadazzled for one of the Yahoo groups I belong to. I made this cell phone fob for my swap partner. The fob design was from a pattern I did by Laura McCabe. I like these so much that I have made several of them for friends as gifts.

I also took a class with Laurie Mika which I really enjoyed. She does such beautiful work. Here is a sample of what I did in the class although it isn't finished yet. I have the main piece constructed (in the middle) and a few of the tiles done. I used black polymer clay with blue, pink, and gold mica powders. Before I applied any of the mica powders I coated the pieces in Golden Copper Fluid Acrylic. After all the colors were applied, we baked the tiles for 20 minutes in a polymer clay oven. The baked tiles that came out had a faux raku look. The colored tile above the dragonfly wings was a white polymer clay tile that was baked then colored with mica powders and copper paint. Laurie brought the white polymer clay already baked.

I took a class with Karen O'Brien and I must say it was the messiest most fun class I have taken in a LONG time. This is the book cover. I'll be posting the rest of the pages (although they pretty much like this one) eventually. She is really organized and I highly recommend taking a class with her if you have the opportunity.

Here is a cell phone fob that I did from a kit by Laura McCabe. It worked up very fast and was a lot of fun to do. I made one for a friend that she uses as a pendant to wear around her neck. They are addictive so I had to move onto other things. I wish I could design like she does. I use components of hers for some of my own jewelry. If you are interested in her work, she does have a book out and is featured frequently in Bead and Button in addition to Beadwork magazine.

This is a copper Byzantine bracelet which we make to sell.