Organizing

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During this Christmas break I've been doing a little organizing.

I moved things around a bit in my studio so hopefully I'll be a little more efficient. We shall see!

 While organizing I've been picking and choosing and putting together earrings mostly and one bracelet.

Above are some beautiful lime green glass tubes and micro faceted agate in shades of green and purple.

This has always been a favorite color combination so I pulled the purple out by creating violet enamel headpins and used some really pretty matte Czech Glass beads at the top.

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These Ryolite ovals have always been a favorite and when I recently received these lovely brown faceted Chalcedony briolettes I knew they were a great match to pull the little bit of rust color out of the Ryolite.

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Paisley Copper Rings and Puple Crazy Lace Agate.

Every once in awhile the copper goes purple which is one of my favorite colors.

Perfect for Purple Crazy Lace Agate.

Above are my Ammonite Rectangles with gorgeous blue green Opal briolettes.

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How about the earrings above with incredible Lampwork Beads by Outwest paired with some Chrysoprase I have that are virtually all brown. I love this combination.

The Purple beauties above sold when I shared them on Facebook.

Sparkly Glass beads with more beautiful Lampwork from Outwest,

topped with Copper beadcaps.

I'm fairly sure I'll be keeping these Lampwork and Turquoise beauties for myself.

I rarely keep anything I make but I love these and may make an exception.

You may recognize more Lampwork by Outwest, this time with Sleeping Beauty Turquoise in Marquise shape and Acorn bead caps by Vintaj.

And last but not least this lovely bracelet.

 I've seen this style numerous times by other artists and I always loved it.

I put my own twist in by roughly wrapping the copper around the heavy copper base inside,

 rather than making smooth lovely wraps.

 I liked it very much and it was bought once again when I posted it on Facebook.

Large Lampwork beads by TwoSisters, smaller purple spacers by Radiant Mind.

Kristi

Carnelian Jewelery

To go with the Arrowhead Necklace I blogged about yesterday I made earrings with the same Carnelian and Ryolite beads. I'm sharing them here today along with a few other pieces of jewelry that include Carnelian made by the EMC Team (Etsy Metal Clay).





Here's a beautiful Rain Forest Bracelet from HappyDayArt






Here's a very unusual Kenetic Bronze Necklace from ModernMetalJewelry.






A Road Less Wandered by DaisyJaneDesigns








California Poppy Earrings by Egg Tooth Originals.




Kristi
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Arrowhead Necklace

My first attempt at making jewelry since having foot surgery. It took me most of the day working in short 10-15 minute bits, then elevating my foot so it won't swell.

It's actually a re-structuring of a necklace I made last year, but I turned up the volume quite a bit I think by adding beautiful Carved Carnelian Barrel beads I purchased at the NW Bead Bazaar last weekend and little brass spacers between each Ryolite Heishi giving it much more fluidity of movement.

I can't tackle the stairs so was unable to use my favorite area to take photos which is my greenhouse, so I had to set something up by a window and hope for the best.



I love this shot because the light hit the Carnelian just right and looks like they have light coming from within.




I also added 2 Unikite rounds to hold the pendant centered along the Heishi. I think the colors of these 3 stones play very nicely together.

Here are the Carnelian Earrings I made to coordinate.


Feels good to play with beads again!!

Kristi
DreamSome.Etsy

Stuck in Neutral

Being stuck in neutral is not a bad thing, I am quite happy with my last few pieces but...I'm going to make a really colorful piece next time. Really I am!!

This necklace is based around a flower made of BronzClay, I made it some time ago and it's gone through a few different lives but I think I finally found the final configuration.

It's got a long list of ingredients starting with little splashes of Turquoise, then beautiful big Ryolite ovals, Polymer Clay beads (the first time I've used them in my work) and an assortment of Glass, Bone, Horn, Indian Orange Aventurine and gold and purple freshwater pearls.



Bronze Flower Necklace

Kristi
DreamSome.Etsy