Birthday present!

My friend Katie had a birthday party Saturday night and I see friend's birthdays as a time to give pretty things as gifts. So in honor of Katie's birth I made the following:

Use the Muse

Back in June I ordered a kit for the second "Use the Muse" beading competition and the big reveal of the "muse" just happened over at The Beader's Muse. There are some amazing pieces in the galleries over there and I'm really glad I did this.

It was fun putting together something based around a large focal piece. That's not the way I usually design things I'm working on but I'm trying to get better at it. I'm pretty happy with how the piece I made turned out and if you've seen me lately it is very likely I've been wearing it.

It's entitled "Clouds of Blue" and is the first piece of jewelry I've made that I've ever had to name. I'm still trying to decide how I feel about that.


I experimented with making some of the seed bead circles I've used in the past three dimensional and I was really excited by how they came out. I think they'll work really well in earrings in the future.

New Silver Project

At long last I finished what was supposed to be a simple chain project for my silver class. In fact the chain portion I finished very quickly. Unfortunately the bezel wire I had was too wide for the stones so it took a lot of work to sand them down.

The chain is made of 16g sterling silver round wire with the smaller links of 20g. The base of the crescent moon pieces are 22g sheet.

Some pieces from my personal stash

Just an assortment of personal stuff now that I have a new camera so I can share.

A couple of presents

My mother requested a couple of bat mitzvah presents and as always I'm happy to oblige.

older pieces