Still In The Red

After a busy halloween I'm back to beading and still working away on my latest herringbone rope.

This one is 3/4 of the way done and then just needs the hidden clasp added.

As soon as this one is done I'll be making one all in reds and then I hope to bead one in red and green- as long as I get the time!

Colour Project

I bought this frame on my way back from Liverpool and am itching to bead some panels to sit inside it- not sure it will work but will give it a go when I get a chance.

St Petersburg Pots

For the next issue of Bead I'm making little pots using St Petersburg chain- an old project I came up with a few years ago but never did anything with.
So of course I'm working them in orange, brown and yellow- trying to keep to the challenge!

Finishing up geometric piece and yellow

I'm persevering with my latest geometric piece and although I love the look of it and want it finished, I really want to move onto something else!

But I'm determined to get it done over the next few weeks- I think I have around another 10 triangle sections to go and they take around an hour each so not too much longer.

I'm beading this as part of my colour challenge and can't move onto the next colour- orange- until I'm done. Not that I think I want to now- I am loving yellow- never thought I'd say that!

Sneaking in orange

I've just finished a new project- my Onye pendant- which still uses yellow but sneaks in some oranges there as well- ok, mainly orange but seeing as I'm going to be moving onto that soon it's allowed!

Geometric Beaded Bead all done

I started this geometric beaded bead a little while ago so it was nice to finally finish it.
As I have found with my other yellow experiments I had to add in "fake yellow" so that you could actually distinguish the colours from each other.

I was hoping to get another one done in yellow but seeing as I haven't finish my other geometric piece and I need to think about moving onto orange it may have to wait!

Crystal Geodes

More beading today and despite the fact I should be getting on with my latest geometric piece I decided to bead something completely different.

I had the idea for these beaded beads over two years ago when I made my crystal charms and pendants- even though I played around with the idea at the time it's taken me this long to actually perfect the idea - I like to let ideas brew for a while sometimes!

They're easy to make and turn out nice and sparkly- I just need to turn them into finished pieces now and soon they'll appear as a project in a future issue of Bead.

You can see from the orange and yellow I used I'm still sticking to my colour challenge- I just didn't have enough yellow crystals in the size I needed to make them fully out fo those so instead added yellow in the form of some mustard yellow delicas.

Sand as inspiration

Recently I visited South Wold for a few hours and took some great photos of the sand there.
I have to bead a project for the next issue of Bead magazine and thought that using some beads inspired by the sand would look nice.

Here is the main photo of the sand


Here's a closer photo of the sand


Here is a palette I created for using the photo


Color by COLOURlovers

Here are some of the beads I'l be using in my work, obviously I'll be using a lot more of one tube than the others!