Stone butterfly necklace

Earrings

One can hardly call making these beading. Basically you just use your beading pliers to pop open the circle, hook it onto the medallion, and voila.

Earrings

This is why I had to clean off the puzzle, so I could work on earrings!

I got these at the beading show last June. They're just two pieces strung on a little chain.

The only drawback is that they kind of....tinkle. It's like wearing little bells, or tin cans attached to your ears. I wouldn't wear them on a day when I was moving around a lot, because it would drive me crazy. Clink, clink, clink!

These are laquered wood, very light.

Bead curtain continued...

 Really, I added more although you can hardly tell...taking a break for a while now, as I'm using the desk for a different project.

The bead curtain grows

I have 4 more strands ready to add to these...

Foxy bead necklace

Alternating purple and green wood beads with a clay fox head bead.

Owl and leaf earrings

I've had these for a while, but they were just the owls. I didn't wear them much, because the owls are so tiny you can hardly see them and I felt like I'd made the chains too long for the tiny owls. So, in my fit of #sickbutproductive energy, I added leaves! I like them better now.

Clay flower earrings

My earrings tend to be super simple - either hook a cool bead directly onto the earring thingy, or maybe get fancy and add a little chain to make it dangly. However, I am experimenting! I hooked multiple beads onto a chain! It's new territory! I wore them today and, happily, the smell of Sculpey that has lingered about the beads the entire time I'd had them does not reach my nose when they are on my ears.

Hedgehog necklace

Not only did I make a necklace, I actually wore it! As opposed to hanging it on the wall, which is what I've done with my other jewelry pieces. This is super simple - it's just purple and natural wooden beads and a cute little hedgehog strung on red wire. I woke up my friend Sara to borrow crimps from her to finish it, but she was very good-natured about it.

Bead curtain; or, What you can buy me for the foreseeable future for all occasions

This is the beginning of what's going to be a bead curtain. It is almost impossible to photograph, especially with my poor photography skills, but the top 6-8 inches are crocheted copper wire with small fluorite gems and then the longer strands are oval fluorite (it's all in shades of green and purple). I'm going to need a LOT more rainbow fluorite....

Also, that bare white wall is just waiting for my newly ordered art to arrive and be framed.