Most beaders know of Laura McCabe the internationally known bead artist and teacher. Another bead artist and teacher Sabine Lippert’s work reminds me of Laura’s. See for yourself… Below are Laura’s Dodechahedron (top), and Sabine’s Spherriffic (bottom), beaded pieces … Both brilliant artists!!!
January 18, 2012
Less than a mile (as the crow flies) there is a herd of goats, it’s a beautiful scene. I can even see them from the balcony. They’re guarded by half a dozen Great Pyrenees dogs from adoption agencies. There are new puppies too. http://www.elmgoats.com/ They are working, they’re eating the brush, and adding fertilizer. Great… [Read more…]
December 24, 2011
Really didn’t hit me til I turned in my badge yesterday morning. Then I had this big grin on my face, went into the building hootin n’ hollerin. Gave my boss my checkout sheet (took all week to complete it, but got a hearing test out of it). Cleaned my office, went to lunch with… [Read more…]
November 26, 2011
Soooooo many beautiful pieces, Susan is amazing. I’ll show you some samples of her work in her Etsy shop…http://www.etsy.com/shop/beadedartjewelry
October 12, 2011
been wanting to work this one for a long time. It’s one of Leslee’s oldies but goodies. I really would have rather gone shopping for nicer drops and pearls but settled with what I had on hand. I will make another some day with better beads.
October 12, 2011
I recently finished Marcia DeCoster’s Pharaoh’s Daughter Necklace, but after seeing the colors I chose, I decided it would look best as a bracelet. I just love it, it is sooo comfortable to wear…
September 26, 2011
I love to add my finished pieces to my blog. This one is Carole Ohl’s Elegant Choices Bracelet which was in the Beadwork August/September 2011 Issue…
September 16, 2011
I didn’t have my Bead & Button issue with me that had this bracelet in it today so I googled to remind me of the designer/teacher, and found her obit. Such a terrible thing http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/saginaw/guestbook.aspx?n=deborah-farrand&pid=149606712&cid=full. This is her Xs & Os bracelet that I recently finished… It was so easy to make this beautiful piece,… [Read more…]
August 1, 2011
Beadartjewelry is her Etsy shop. She does a lot of bead embroidery that is just beautiful. I love the colors she puts together. She is Susan Pierle. She also creates her own dichroic glass. This is one of my favorites…
June 7, 2011
This is amazing beadwork by Hannah Rosner of Good River Valley… See also her Etsy Shop
June 7, 2011
Just ran across this fine beader and had to blog about it. Facebook, that’s the place to find these wonderful jewelry makers, or and of course Etsy. Her business is called Dreamweaver Designs, Inc. Here are some of her beautiful pieces from her website. She does a lot of freeform/organic, and needle and loom beading.
March 19, 2011
I haven’t taken any classes from Dallas Lovett because the wire work hurts my fingers, but his reputation for being a teacher and wire artist is known all over the world. If you’re into wire he’s the one you want to learn from. I love his addition of gems and color in his pieces. This… [Read more…]
March 19, 2011
Miriam Cielo Shimon’s Atilla Lace Necklace is one of her many pieces that caught my eye. Her graduations of pearls and pearl color seed beads make it look like threaded embroidery. See more beautiful pieces at Cielo Design.
March 17, 2011
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March 17, 2011
She is just that crazy and reminds me of Lucille Ball. She’s also one of the greatest beaders in the world. One of my favorite beading books is Jeans’s The Art of Beaded Beads, which illustrates so many different beaded beads to learn. I’ve recently finished a necklace and earring set from beading a bunch… [Read more…]
March 17, 2011
I had the pleasure to meet Jill in a Nan C Meinhardt’s Stick Class taught at Marcia Decoster’s house, where I saw Jill’s Night at the Opera Bracelett (below) in person. Other than being a magnificient piece, it’s that kind of beading you just love to roll your fingers back and forth on. Jill’s concentration is… [Read more…]
March 15, 2011
I’ve of course been meaning to add a few new (to me) artists whose work I admire (more than admire really). Can you say LOVE IT!!! I think I first saw Irina’s work on the Bead & Button’s Show site scrolling through the classes being offered. I’ve taken art clay silver classes and love it. I… [Read more…]
October 29, 2010
I’ve had a few requests to send directions for my Golden Circle Necklace that Marcia DeCoster so generously added to her gallery in her book Beaded Opulence, so I decided to place them here. This necklace is done in the right angle weave beading stitch. I step you through the instructions but you mar find better instructions… [Read more…]
October 29, 2010
I’m not supposed to eat dairy or wheat, but some times I do cheat and the Father’s Table Strawberry Swirl Cheesecake I can get at Boney’s in Coronado is to die for. You can also find them all over the U.S.
July 22, 2010
I always think the last gorgeous piece of beaded jewelry I saw was the greatest piece I’ve ever seen until I come across the next one. I think to myself…”that is the most beautiful piece and how could any piece be any more beautiful?”. The next piece is always more beautiful than the last piece that I thought… [Read more…]
June 8, 2010
Due to my attention deficit disorder I usually don’t finish a book, I get so bored with it. I won’t even pick up a book unless I have a recommendation from a reliable source that it’s good. So I found it on Amazon and bought it (used) at least two years ago, and there it’s… [Read more…]
June 6, 2010
Another find on Facebook. What would we do without this world wide web social society. Mikki is very HOT right now. This is her latest from her blog entitled Urchin Wings. It reminds me of a bracelet and a dragon at the same time. The wings look like they have wire threaded through them, but… [Read more…]
June 5, 2010
Just found this amazing bead artist on Facebook. She has so many different original pieces. See her pieces at her web, or her blog, my favorite is her kits page. Here is a picture from her site and is one of my favorites.
April 30, 2010
I must have taken this class 7-8 years ago at The Shepherdess in San Diego (when they used to have many great bead artists teaching classes) and of course still haven’t finished it. I recently decided I am going to finish it damn it! I have a lot of it done, but something else had… [Read more…]
April 24, 2010
March 18, 2010
I just love going on beading retreats, and this was my third one, and it was perfect in every way. The flight was only one hour long. The beading classes were in the same hotel we stayed at. Happy hour after class was in the same hotel we stayed at and was so much fun I… [Read more…]
March 3, 2010
Have you seen her work? I have never seen any bead work like hers before, it is definitely original and soooooo incricate. She definitely spends a lot of time on her pieces. I don’t know how she does it, I get so tired of working on the same piece day after day, night after night.… [Read more…]
January 22, 2010
December 7, 2009
Health issues and a bit addicted to Facebook games. Still trying to heal my thumb/wrist, so I’m really not supposed to be beading. It does feel much better then a few months ago when I was beading. So then there’s FarmVille on Facebook which I tried to stay away for as long as I could, … [Read more…]
November 1, 2009
Designed by Rachel Nelson Smith ‘s O.Bersten Component Specimen Necklace
October 26, 2009
Looking through the November/December 2009 Step by Step Beads magazine at the list of classes being taught at the Bead Fest in Santa Fe this March 2009, I came across this class (below). A beautiful piece by Shelley Nybakke. I love how she creates pieces that look like fine jewelry. Nancy Cain also teaches at… [Read more…]
September 19, 2009
book (http://www.msrachel.com/) to come out so I could make her O. Bersten, and I decided to make a bracelet (don’t need any more long projects) and I have almost two done.
September 14, 2009
and received a 2nd place. You had to use mostly their materials for the piece, which I spent about $200. I don’t think I’ll enter that contest again, it’s just too expensive for a 2nd place and only $75.
September 2, 2009
Husband just called and said I just got a package from Fire Mountain Gems, I told him to open it, He said it has a certificate for a 2nd place, and a $75 gift certificate, for the Freeform Category as a Fire Mountain Gems 2009 Beading Contest Finalist. Yippee. Left my camera at my mother’s… [Read more…]
August 26, 2009
I can’t believe all the beautiful pieces she’s coming up with…http://www.cynthiarutledge.net/workshops/n-key-to-my-heart.htm She also has a cruise coming up to the Mediterranean in April that I’d love to go on if I could get a house sitter, because I know my husband would want to go.
August 13, 2009
This is the title of Marcia Decoster’s new book. It’s a great book which I would have bought even if she hadn’t included a photo of one of my pieces.
August 7, 2009
First you have to lay the foundation. I use silk rattail and lay it out on top of a pattern I’ve used before that fits around my neck. Christen Brown taught placing ribbon work this way. I’ve done it for art clay silver pieces before so why not titanium. But the titanium doesn’t have any… [Read more…]
July 27, 2009
with about four of Holly Gage’s titanium pieces. I’m so disappointed, I had ordered two more of her pieces for this and they never arrived, and of course Holly’s people definitely mailed it and the post office said they definitely delivered it, so I am up a creek without a paddle. A little over $100… [Read more…]
July 24, 2009
A new fragrancy by Philosophy. My last sephora purchase gave me scent samples, and I’ve tried them all and I LOVE THIS ONE! But I’m not sure they smell as good on me as they do when you smell the cap or the bed I sprayed it on. Since I love to manipulate data (especially… [Read more…]
July 13, 2009
Got tired of waiting for Google Blogger to fix the fact that all of a sudden my followers aren’t showing up. For about two months now. I don’t have very many but I do have some. So we’ll see how WordPress is.
July 13, 2009
The girls surprised me at work on Friday with this yummy item from the Flour Power Bakery.
June 27, 2009
But deserving. I wonder where these two guys went. as recently as five years ago the two wild parrots in the picture came to our roof on our shed in Imperial Beach every day for peanuts. I even toward the end was able to hand the big guy a peanut. It’s sad to think what… [Read more…]
June 16, 2009
Doctor gave me a cortisone shot in my left wrist for my deQuervain’s tenosynovitis yesterday, he said it was going to hurt first then feel better tomorrow. Ohhhhhhhhhh the pain I had last night about an hour after the shot, I couldn’t even operate the steering wheel with my left hand, which was annoying because… [Read more…]
June 15, 2009
I saw this on another blogger’s blog and had to buy one, now I’m thinking of getting a subscription or maybe just waiting and ordering them on e-bay cheaper (that’s ok to say right?). Anyway it is an art and I want to learn how to make my blog artsy-fartsy too. But it is a… [Read more…]
June 11, 2009
I can’t help it I just love some smells, and florals usually do it for me. Yes there are some that will make me sick and head achey too when I walk past someone who has it on, but I just love and can’t live without the ones I love to smell. Current and in… [Read more…]
June 7, 2009
This was accepted to 2009 Bead & Button’s Bead Dreams Competition as one of the many finalists.
June 5, 2009
John and Jerry Jerry was found around the end of September 2008 in Spring Valley. I did everything to find the owner. He’s hilarious and a handful. He has to have his coffee/tea every morning which he dunks his food in it. It’s natural for goffins to scream bloody murder, I think i’m losing my… [Read more…]
June 5, 2009
These I took tonight from my backyard balcony of San Diego.
June 3, 2009
I was e-mailed some ocean wave pictures, and I wanted to add them here, so I googled to see if I could find the owner/creator. The creator/photographer is Clark Little Photography http://www.clarklittlephotography.com/
May 28, 2009
I guess I’ll put something on here that I’ve beaded. I love freeform beading. There is no set pattern, just thread up a needle add a bead/beads and continue to insert random (or specific) beads where ever you want. Basics of the stitch (peyote, pey-oh-tee) for the base: Pick out the colors you want to… [Read more…]
May 28, 2009
I have this condition, therefore i can’t knit. I have to wear a spika splint on my hand. well at least it’s on my left hand (i’m right handed). I can still bead with it on but i shouldn’t. I think it’s getting better. A lot of knitters get it. It’s pain on the thumb… [Read more…]
May 26, 2009
Another hot beader is Teresa Meister. Have you seen any of her beaded jewelry? I love all of them. Each piece has a lacy, delicate, vintage, and feminine look to them. This one is from her gallery on her web site and you won’t be able to just look at one. Just look at the… [Read more…]
May 26, 2009
I’ve injured my tailbone and I just can’t find a comfortable position for sitting. Sitting too long is what caused it to begin with. I’m pretty sure anyway. X-ray today just to be sure it’s not nothing else and now who knows how long I’ll have to live with this pain. Lookin for a cushion… [Read more…]
May 26, 2009
While Marcia DeCoster and Laura McCabe continue with their hot streak I have found two other artists whose bead work is just divine. Cynthia Rutledge and ? damn!, it will come to me but maybe not today. Cynthia is not new to beading she like the rest of us have been beading for years. But… [Read more…]
May 20, 2009
One can get a lot of ideas of what to type about on their blog by reading from bloggers you follow. That is if you’re like me and you don’t have a thing to say…right there, that kinda says a lot about me. I tell my mother all the time when she wonders why I… [Read more…]
May 19, 2009
Marcia DeCoster is a friend and mentor to me. One of her many talents is being a brilliant and innovative artist. She’s one of many inspirational people I have met. I met her by way of the Bead Society of San Diego County. The Rosier’s suggested to Marcia that I might do some beading/testing of… [Read more…]
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