Have you ever looked at unusually shaped beads and wondered what in the world you could do with them? Today I have a project that combines several intriguing bead shapes. This necklace uses daggers, triangles and a trapezoid pendant, plus several other…
This necklace design is different from your usual chain and pendant. In fact, to be honest, when I finished with it, I wasn’t quite sure that I even liked it! But then I tried it on, and that made all the difference….
This lovely plover bead has been sitting on my studio table for way too long now. I’ve enjoyed looking at it but it was high time it got made into something wearable! This bead was made by Shannon Vickers of Blue Blazes…
I named today’s project after the dogwood tree that will be blooming soon in my yard. Every year in early May I so enjoy its beautiful pink and white blossoms. These pink ceramic beads, white crystal and crackled beads and the white…
For this week’s jewelry project I show you how to take any two colors of seed beads and blend them together into a beautiful necklace. I’ve been on a turquoise and copper kick lately and I absolutely LOVE how this came out. If you were…
These little 2-hole sliders make it easy to put together a double strand necklace. You could also use them to make multi-strand bracelets. What creates the scallops is that you use more beads on the lower strand than on the upper. You can design…
This necklace is all about the beads and the ombre shading from dark to light. Once you’ve chosen all your beads the little silver spacers tie everything together and the stringing is simple. As usual I chose to make mine adjustable. In the video…
Here’s another necklace I’ll be teaching soon at my local Joann’s. We’ll be focusing on the basics of bead stringing. As I mention in the video, the stringing of beads is the easy part. Just use the wire like a needle…
You might remember these fancy jasper beads I picked up at a bead show last fall. (Of course unless if you’re like me… I can barely recall what I did yesterday, ha.) Gotta love these little brass beads, I think they work…
This necklace is a remake of a favorite I’ve had for years. I think I love it so much because it’s simple, yet funky and it goes with everything. Stringing bead dangles onto a ring is a great way to use up single,…
