Bead Embroidery Cuff Bracelet

In an attempt to experiment a bit more as an artist, I decided to try to make one of the more interesting designs, a bead embroidery cuff.
I've avoided making one as I never really felt like I would have anywhere to wear it.

BUT, should that stop you from trying something new? Naaaaaa =)





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Right side








I used some stiff felt to make the base and a brass blank to give it support. The back is lined with a nice light gray ultrasuede. It is a rather weighty cuff, but it does get a lot of notice.

Woven Crystal Bracelet and Right Angle Pendant

Playing around with my picture set ups and some crystal pieces. Using a rather interesting diaginoal netting technique, I whipped this bracelet up using 2ab clear, satin ab blue, and a satin light topaz with matte ab grey delicas. Far from my usual colors....

A bit of an interesting right angle weave for ya. A Fairy Ring. Some ab clear seed beads, opal, tanizanite, and ab tanzanite crystals to finish it off.

I'm trying to decide if I should put these two up for sale on etsy.....not sure if it would be worth it or not....granted, I havn't been doing much with the etsy site as of recently....

Random Beadwork

Another beadwork piece from the past. A bit of freeform peyote and netting to form an organic looking cuff bracelet. I do love to do freeform work, but I have issues with my tension. If I'm not paying attention, I tend to pull things way too tight. Most of my freeform pieces end up standing up by themselves.


And one of my early, early beaded spiral lariats. Somehow, this piece has followed me through several life changes and moves across states and has survived for years intact. I never wear it. It just gets tossed from one box to the next.

The Bead Art in the logo/icon

Every now and then someone askes me about the beaded pieces in the logo, so here she is... A face pin, with leafy fringe.

And as to the icon that I am using....that was a lovely doll who shared Best in Show with her sister at a small art show in Philadelphia. They are about 9" tall. Forrest has a netted shawl that she is holding behind her. Sea was based on the night sky over the ocean.

Another Beaded Dragon

Another bead creation from the past:

I made this Beady Dragon several years go for a lady down in Texas. Purples, silvers, clears, and blue eyes.

When I was much younger, I would make different creatures out of my beads to play with as toys. This gave me a great freedom to have what ever toy I could figure out how to make. I would have a herd of simple beaded horses or a fairy or a mermaid....anything I could dream of.

I guess I've always had a knack for visualizing something in 3D. These beaded dragons are of my own design, and I never really wrote up how to do them because they always change, depending on how the beads handle the number of times the wire has to go through them.

New Bead Class Project - Mandella Medallion

There is a local-ish shop that I teach the advanced classes on beading just about every Saturday. The owner is really nice and the regulars there are ready to lend a hand whenever you need one.


I'm writting this beaded medallion up to be a new class for the next schedual. Pretty simple, quick design, but has crystals in it. One of the things we've noticed is that people will sign up more for the projects that have crystals in them. Personally, I'm beginning to feel that crystals are being over used, and I tend to stay away from them as the focus of my designs....most of the time =)


Plus, people tend to like doing projects that they can finish in one class setting. Unfortunatly, most of the classes I teach take longer than the 3 hours per class to finish a project, as I try to focus on the technique oover a finished piece. And we lost one of intermediate teachers for a little bit, so I'm covering some of her classes. I'm having a blast, plus it gets me out of the house.






A color variation for the samples for the class.

No pay, but the owner lets us take other classes for free. Last week I got to take a Russian Snake class. It's one of the few weaves I hadn't gotten around to learning and it's a pretty neat one. I have to figure out a varaition to use it for...though, it's rather pretty on it's own.... hard to take a nice photograph of it.