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Old School Flower Beads in Red/Purple

I showed you the blue/green version of these beads yesterday.  Today it’s the red/purple version.  Oh, I love this colour combination! They have been a lot of fun to make,…

Old School Flower Beads in Blue/Green

I used to make LOTS of this type of flower bead.  In all sorts of colours.  And then one day, I just stopped making them.  My husband asked me why,…

Poppies – the finished piece

After around 15 attempts, I finally finished the Poppy necklace! I made 100 Poppy beads for the necklace, to commemorate 100 years since the start of World War 1.  I…

Poppies

I am trying to make a necklace for the South East Art Society “Remembrance” exhibition.  I can picture it in my head, and draw it on paper, but the actual…

Yellow and Grey beads

As a general rule, I don’t really like the colour yellow (I know)! However, every time I make a necklace with yellow in it, it gets snapped up!  So, I…

Green Beads….Green Necklace

Remember how I tipped all of my beads into the display tray the other day?  This is another necklace that came out of that inspiring move!  I love all of…

New Bead Storage Trays

I can’t believe I didn’t do this years ago…well, maybe it’s because I only recently saw these box frames in the shops!  I tipped all of my beads into the frames…

Bead Orders

I have had a lot of lovely bead orders come in recently.  It’s been fun, because some of the orders have been for beads that I haven’t made for a…

Bad days on the torch

I would say that most of the days that I spend on the torch are “good” days.  But the other day things just weren’t working out, this particular bead was…

Melbourne Trip – part 2

  Our trip to Melbourne on the weekend coincided with the LAST day of the Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary jewellery exhibition.  This was at the beautiful Gallery Funaki. To…