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New on Etsy
Dec. 31st, 2011 02:47 pmHallo. Long time, no shiny. My attempt to read 75 books this year sort of derailed my beading time, but here's some of recent bits and baubles:
( shiny ahoy! )
( shiny ahoy! )
New stuff up on the Stellar Parallax Designs shop on Etsy. I'm still working on listing my back inventory, but new and nerdier things will start going up within a month. My workroom has to be turned back into the guest bedroom for my mom's visit this weekend, so actual beading time has been scarce. But I've got prep work done on some things for the pirate princess, chic gamer, and bad sci-fi movie fan in everyone.
I love Czech glass beads. They're versatile - coming in tons of varieties - and affordable, and are pretty much the main staple of my stash. And lately I've become obsessed with the Picasso finish Czech glass. It's a mottling effect that gives the glass the look of stone, in many cases, with beautiful variation and dept and effect of color.
I recently snagged these from another Etsy seller, destined for a mermaid or another octopus necklace, and spent a ridiculous amount of time drooling over others.
I love Czech glass beads. They're versatile - coming in tons of varieties - and affordable, and are pretty much the main staple of my stash. And lately I've become obsessed with the Picasso finish Czech glass. It's a mottling effect that gives the glass the look of stone, in many cases, with beautiful variation and dept and effect of color.
I recently snagged these from another Etsy seller, destined for a mermaid or another octopus necklace, and spent a ridiculous amount of time drooling over others.
New: Sangria
Aug. 4th, 2008 10:10 pmChoker. Mixed glass, freshwater pearls, pewter pinwheel spacers, silver-plate toggle clasp on jewelry wire.
Close up of toggle. More accurate to the actual colors.
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Close up of the focal bead. I really need to get something in these for scale.
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Close up of toggle. More accurate to the actual colors.
: Close up of the focal bead. I really need to get something in these for scale.
:Stuff and things,
Apr. 9th, 2008 10:10 pmFinally got Parchment Roses, Green with Envy and Seaside Geometry (all in this post) up on Etsy.
Also found a bead seller on Amazon marketplace that has a good price on half-hard sterling wire. Ordered a spool and will see how it is. I've been wanting to do some wire-wrap work.
Think this weekend's project is going to be playing with some of the copper-color craft wire I picked up a while back. I was thinking of a long coil of copper wire slipped on a leather cord for stability, and maybe with some glass beads interspersed between the coils. And I also want to do a blue variant on Green with Envy, with some of the foil finish glass beads I got the other day.
I also want to hit up a couple of thrift stores and see what I can find to cannibalize and re-purpose. Especially different varieties of chain. I picked up this book called Bead Simple that has some really cool pieces using with vintage or thrifted jewelry and pins, which is an idea I really like, that re-imagining.
Also found a bead seller on Amazon marketplace that has a good price on half-hard sterling wire. Ordered a spool and will see how it is. I've been wanting to do some wire-wrap work.
Think this weekend's project is going to be playing with some of the copper-color craft wire I picked up a while back. I was thinking of a long coil of copper wire slipped on a leather cord for stability, and maybe with some glass beads interspersed between the coils. And I also want to do a blue variant on Green with Envy, with some of the foil finish glass beads I got the other day.
I also want to hit up a couple of thrift stores and see what I can find to cannibalize and re-purpose. Especially different varieties of chain. I picked up this book called Bead Simple that has some really cool pieces using with vintage or thrifted jewelry and pins, which is an idea I really like, that re-imagining.
