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Category Archives: Beading
Happy Rock Ornament
This year I have tried to bring joy and happiness to my community by hiding Happy Rocks at libraries, playgrounds and sculpture parks. I also give them as gifts. Most Happy Rock artists paint natural rocks, but as I am a polymer clay artist, I make mine from polymer. I stamp the back of each …
Asymmetric Earrings
Earrings Everyday’s Challenge is “Chart Your Own Course.” I decided to play with asymmetric earring pairs. Bumblebee Jasper Cabochon. Golden Freshwater Pearls. Swarovski crystals. Pottery Fragment. Freshwater pearls. Swarovski crystals. Lampwork bead. Lampwork butterfly wing. Freshwater pearls. Czech beads. Lampwork bead. Faceted Garnets. Rosebud pearls. Lampwork headpin. Czech glass beads. Faceted Aqua Aura beads. …
Shine On Harvest Moon
Earrings Everyday’s October theme is Harvest Moon. Here are a few pairs of earrings I have made with a moon theme: Shine On Harvest Moon. The moon disks are made from some of my Opal Polymer Clay then dry brushed with several colors of interference acrylics. I added Basha Beads to complete them. Apollo 17. …
Art Bead Scene, April Challenge – Eye of the Jaguar Goddess
Art Bead Scene offers a painting each month as a prompt to create beads and jewelry. The painting this month is Self Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, painted by Frida Kahlo in 1940. So many of Kahlo’s paintings focus on her physical suffering as a result of terrible injuries in a bus accident. Instead …
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Mom and Spock
My mother, Ethel Delaney, worked at NASA Goddard, just outside of DC. After Apollo 11, which put men on the moon, Spock and Kirk came to NASA Goddard to thank the employees for their help with the mission. Spock put a gold-plated charm of the lunar lander into Mother’s hand. She was thrilled to the …
Earrings Everyday March Challenge
Every month, Erin Praise-Hintz of Earrings Everyday issues the challenge to make a pair of earrings based on a prompt. This month’s prompt was a photo of dew covered damselflies: The prompt led me to create the earrings above. And helped me solve TWO design challenges that had bedeviled me. I had two “failed” necklaces …
ABS March Challenge – Twilight Birches
The March challenge for Art Bead Scene reminded me of paintings I’d seen of birches at twilight. I am crazy about birches and have 531 pins of birch trees on my “Birches” board on Pinerest. Here is the challenge painting: Edith Carr painted this in 1912 after a six week adventure into rural British Columbia. …
I’m So DIZ-zy, My Head Is Spinning
A few days ago a woman found my Aurora Australis earring disks on Etsy and wrote to me. http://www.etsy.com/listing/219840257/aurora-australis-pair-of-polymer-clay?ref=shop_home_active_20 She is a spinner of wool and wanted me to make her a diz* that looked like my earring disks. Many emails ensued and today I made her the diz at the top of this post. …
We All Scream for Ice Cream
Dry Gulch Beads and Jewelry issued a challenge to make something in this palette: If you’ve been reading this blog long, you know I love a challenge. I mixed up a translucent silver and three shades of translucent pink from the palette and made the lush, mature, gorgeous female figures for the earrings. I added …
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