Saturday, June 2, 2012

Silver/Teal 1/2 Chevron Chain Bracelet

This little beauty is great for everyday wear.  It has a little magnetic clasp that makes putting it on and taking it off very easy.  It is 5/8" wide and 7 1/4" long.

Cost:  $22.00 plus shipping


Orange/Red Elegance Bracelet

This beautiful bracelet measures 1" wide and 7 1/2" long.

Cost:  $30.00 plus shipping



Green Pearl Parlay Bracelet

This bracelet is elegant and beautiful.  It's a combinations of round stones, glass seed beads and a whole bunch of Swarovski crystals.  All those crystals make alot of glimmer that, once again, I am having a hard time capturing on camera.  I'm sure it's a combination of the equipment I'm using (a point and shoot) and user error.  It has a foldover magnetic clasp.  It measures 1 3/8" wide and 7 1/2" long.

Cost:  $65.00 plus shipping


Purple Crystal Tile Bracelet/Earring Set

This woven beauty is made with Swarovski crystals and fire polish.  The bracelet measures 5/8" wide and 7 1/4" long.  The matching earrings have sterling silver earwires.

Cost:  $55.00 plus shipping






Copper/Rush Crystal Tile Bracelet/Earring Set

This beautiful bracelet looks like copper and root beer candy.  It's gorgeous and catches all kind of sparkle that is not showing up in the pictures for me.  It looks like fine jewelry due to all the Swarovski crystals, fire polish beads, and metallic copper beads.  It's 5/8" wide and 7 1/4" long.  The earrings have copper earwires.

Cost:  $40.00 plus shipping




Green Strung Necklace, Bracelet & Earring Set

I strung large, dark moss green glass pearls and fire polish beads with silver spacers to make this elegant jewelry set.  Necklace measures 22".  Bracelet measures 7 1/4".  Earrings have sterling silver earwires.

Cost:  $40.00 plus shipping

Bead Embroidery Necklace

I made this little necklace for a friend who has the most adorable baby girl.  I love this picture of her in this colorful hat because it makes her look like a little flower.  I just had to bead around it.  I glued the picture behind a clear glass cabashon and attached it to ultra suede and Lacy's Stiff Stuff.  The rest is bead embroidery using various glass beads.  This one's not for sale, but I just had to share.



Lacy Butterflies Peyote Bracelet

This gorgeous light-catching peyote bracelet is from a design by Lorraine Coetzee.  When I first saw the pattern I knew that I had to tackle it.  With 26 colors of Delica beads, it was not easy to decipher the original pattern.  I gave ever color a letter of the alphabet and re-created the pattern on peyote graph paper with letters instead of colored squares.  It took a few days to get it right but it made the beading go alot smoother having the new graphs.  This bracelet is just so beautiful with all the shades of gold and pinks and tans.  They shimmer and give the wings movement.  It has a peyote tube toggle and loop closure and measures 1 3/4" wide and 7 1/4" long.  It is soft and manages to be comfortable even though it is quite wide.

Cost:  $120.00 plus shipping



Miss Daisy Bracelet

This springy little daisy bracelet from a pattern by Fusion Beads is made using Delicas and a three-drop peyote stitch.  It's soft and fluid like ribbon with a slide closure.  It's 1 1/16" wide and 7 1/2" long.  I also stitched small green beads randomly on top for a little added texture and color.

cost:  $40.00 plus shipping



Spanish Lace Bracelet with a Morocca Flair

These pictures do not do justice to this beautiful, lacey bracelet designed by Juanita Carlos.  This floral pattern is made with glass seed beads and 3mm fire polish beads.  It is a very soft and ribbon-like bracelet that really catches the light.  Although it was a bear to make, I plan to make another one or two because it was so fun to see how my color choices came together.  It really came out nothing like I had envisioned, but in a good way.  The width is 1 1/4" and the finished length is 7 1/2".

Cost:  $45.00 plus shipping


Lavender Netted Bracelet with Pearl Motif

This is a netting design based on a pattern by Cathy Lampole in Bead and Button Magazine.  It is an everyday wearable bracelet that almost feels like ribbon.  It's made with glass seed beads and Swarovski glass pearls and has a slide for a clasp.  Width is 1" and finished length is 7 1/4".
Cost:  $30.00 plus shipping


Moss Green Netted Bracelet

This extra comfortable bracelet is based on a netting pattern by Cathy Lampole in Bead and Button Magazine.  It is so soft and fluid that it feels like ribbon.  It's made with glass seed beads and 3mm fire polish beads around the edges.  It has a simple slide for a closure.  The bracelet is 1 1/4" wide and 7 1/2" long.
Cost:  $25.00 plus shipping


Circle Meets Square Bracelet

I was dazzled by this bracelet design by Kathleen Burke when I first saw it in Bead and Button Magazine.  It's a strung bracelet made of hand-woven beads.  It's gorgeous but it was so much tedious work that it will probably be the only one I ever make.  These pictures definitely don't give it the sparkly, earthly credit that it is due.  This bracelet has 82 Swarovski crystals and 18 8mm round Jasper stones.  Each of the woven beads is about 1/2" square and the finished length of the bracelet is 7 1/12".
Cost:  $70 plus shipping



Giraffe Bracelet

When I saw this sweet little giraffe pattern from Tea Benduhn of Milwaukee, WI, I just had to make it.  My 4 year old son, Colvin, loves giraffes.  It's a peyote bracelet using Delica beads (small tubular glass beads) and I altered it to reduce the width by the amount that the ears are now sticking out.  I created the ears with a modified brick stitch. The width of the band is 1 5/16" except for the ears where it is 1 13/16".  The finished length is 7 1/4".  The closure is simply buttons and loops.

Cost:  $70.00 plus shipping