My Creative Space...

Here are a few pieces I have been working on over the past few weeks.

This is a gorgeous pendant using Marcie Abney's "Looking Glass" pendant tutorial.

I made this for my gorgeous friend, Jess, for her 21st birthday. 

Her favourite colours are hot pink and turquoise.

This is such a quick and easy pendant to create and really does make a lovely gift.

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This is my Earthly Hues piece from Beading Babes - Project 2.

You might recall that I ran out of beads when making this piece so I wasn't able to complete the piece in time for the reveal on 5 December.

The round beads are Ocean Jasper - one of my favourite stones, and I've used Matte Metallic Khaki Iris cubes and round beads.

I found this piece relatively easy to make with the fiddliest part being the pendant. I found I had to go through the beads several times to hold the piece together nicely as mine was sitting too loosely.

Overall I am pretty pleased with the final result and love the mix of earthy colours.

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I am currently going through issues of Beadwork and Bead and Button magazine choosing the pieces for Project 3 of Beading Babes.

Two pieces will be selected again, but remember you do not need to create both.

I will be posting the details up in the next day or two and will then give you a couple of days to vote on your favourite two.

Watch this space!

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Chain-ges

You might recall I was recently working on a piece which I had unpicked several times...ok about seven or eight times before I was ''happy''.

Well here is the finished piece!

The style of this piece is something a little different and new from me as I have never really used chain as the necklace for one of my beaded cabochons.

I usually create a beaded necklace or use a simple, pretty organza ribbon but I really do love the look of the chain with the metallic cubes.  

The polymer clay cabochon is by Rachele of Rachele's Originals and the piece has been stitched with delicas, size 6/0 and 11/0 seed beads as well as cube beads.

I originally had a peyote link coming off either side of the cabochon but for some reason I could not get the piece to balance nicely so I finally opted for just the one link hanging the piece from the centre.

What do you think?

I think I might be using chain in my pieces more often!

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