My Creative Space

I've been working on this cuff for the past few weeks and finally it's starting to take form.

I've used an Eagle Eye Agate cabochon as the centre piece and then some gorgeous 

Desert Picture Jasper tear drop and oval cabs.

These cabs have such an earthy, dare I say, organic feel to them. 

I've used an assortment of seed beads including cube beads, delicas and wooden beads as well as some gorgeous tigers eye czech beads.

The decision I have to make now is whether to attach the piece to a metal cuff base or keep it as a softer bracelet style cuff.

This is my first attempt at a beaded cuff so not sure what the better option is but am leaning towards a softer cuff ...for the time being...until I play around with some cuff bases.

Don't you love the way the sparkle of the beads showed up in this out of focus shot I took...

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If there is a heaven then I reckon this is it!

Check out my lastest ...ummm... investment from Fire Mountain Gems.

I am not a religious person but I reckon if there is a Heaven then this is it!

An assortment of seed beads

Wooden beads and leather cuffs

Cabochons

Delicas

Jump rings and cubic zirconia drops

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I have also just re-organised my bead stash (to make room for the new loot)

from this

to this

I have sorted my seed beads into colours keeping size 11/0, 8/0 and 6/0 seed beads together, a separate drawer for 15/0's (not sorted by colour) and my delicas, cubes, drops, hex beads etc are still in the hangers.

I am not sure this new system is going to work for me... 

I loved having my beads sorted by size and colour... all my blue 11/0's together, red 11/0's together etc...

it made life easy when starting a new project. 

Now I have to fish through the colour drawer separating my sizes. 

I guess the sizing is easy to distinguish at a glance but my OCD prefers the other, more organised way!

Let's see how it goes!

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