Hot Diggity Dog!

Wow, I'm over the moon! Another piece of my jewelry was included in an ArtFire collection. You can see the collection here.

Here's another view of my Waterfall creation:

New Coil and Spiral Wrap

I just learned to make these coiled and spiraled elements designed by Cindy Wimmer. I'm planning to create some new pieces based on variations of her design elements. Wahoo! New stuff to do!!! Meanwhile, here's my test piece - a bracelet.

Good News Again

Lucky me - I'm over the moon! My Spring Garden bracelet was chosen for another ArtFire showcase. Click here to see the collection. Since so many people have liked this bracelet (and the Winter Garden bracelet too) I think I'd better get busy and make the Summer and Fall garden bracelets to complete the series. It'll be time consuming (beadweaving always is) but I'll enjoy it since I LOVE flowers. Here's a pansy brooch I just made.

Hello Again

I'm so excited about my newest jewelry creation. I found this beautiful shell and some angelite beads to compliment it at a bead show I went to last month. I had a glimmering of an idea about how to use them but nothing solid until a couple of days ago when I found some very pale blue bicones that contributed to the waterfall idea I had germinating.

I went home and started by positioning the shell between two sections of wire wrap and the rest of the design suggested itself as I went along. It took a really long time to do the wire wrapping because I'd never tried suspending a focal between two otherwise separate sections or ending the wires by completely wrapping them before, and there was a lot of wrapping, taking apart and rewrapping going on. ;-D

Anyway, here's the finished product and I hope you like it as much as I do. (There's a "LIKE" button down at the very bottom of the page if you want to like it on Facebook.)

What next?

I love bead weaving but it takes forever to finish and I need more pieces in my ArtFire studio. I like wire work too and it's faster but this week's YOJ project theme is "Easter Parade" and bead weaving just feels like a better fit. What do you think? Here's a wirework pendant I recently made:

And here's some bead weaving:

Let me know what you think and if you liked this, please click the "Like" icon at the bottom of the page. If you want to visit my studio, you can click the Artfire URL at the left. There's also a place on the right to become a follower if you want to become one of my "groupies". LOL!!!