Looky What I Made!

FINALLY! Got a chance to do some real, actual beading yesterday. Yay! It was one of those days where the designs just "worked out" without me feeling like I was having to drag the muse around by her hair to get her to cooperate.

I started with this amazing flower pendant from Tracee Dock at The Classic Bead.

Seriously - isn't it beautiful? If you look really closely, you can see that it even has little glimmers of lavender between some of the petals.

I added some dyed agate rounds, golden glass pearls, a Vintaj brass leaf and some pink chalcedony rondelles. Oh, and I threw in one green aventurine round for contrast and because every flower has to have some green around it, right?

The clasp is an aged brass hook from Patina Queen.

Then, Mom needed a custom order. She's getting together with some of her sorority alum friends for a Christmas lunch and gift exchange. Their colors are light blue and dark blue so I used dark indigo and air blue opal Swarovski crystals. Their sorority symbol is the fleur-de-lis. I found these cute sterling fleur-de-lis charms at a bead show and I wire-wrapped everything together and added a sterling silver toggle clasp.

A friend brought me this really nice pair of raku frit lampwork beads from a beadshow. I added hammered gold hoops, some vermeil spacers and Swaro crystals to them to make a stylish pair of earrings.

I actually churned out two more pairs of earrings, but by then, it had gotten too dark and stormy to take pictures outside. Yes, we are having actual WEATHER in So Cal. It was cold and overcast all day yesterday and today it is raining.

And you know what that means! We are on STORMWATCH 2009! With Dopper 8,000,000 and live reports from anywhere that droplets of water have been sighted.

Of course, it also means that everyone will forget how to drive and the commute home tonight will be a total NIGHTMARE.

Sigh.

KJ