Rising Sun - New Horizons

About a year ago I made a crazy purchase, I bought a bunch of large marble disk beads. They were beautiful, but what to do with them? Then the them to the Beadweaving Emporium Market challenge theme was announced. The theme was "New Horizons" with a mini theme to incorporate green. This was a wonderful chance for me to use these beautiful green beads.

I used wonderful copper lined green seed beads and then bright silver lined silver and gold seed beads to create this wonderful necklace. I beaded around the green marble disk to create a lovely pendent. I then finished it with fringe and a beaded rope.

I see a rising sun every time I look at this necklace. I think it has a very Inca or Mayan feel to it. The silver lined beads really make it glow like the sun. This necklace not only reminds me of the rising sun, but also because it was my first attempt at beading around a bead with netting.

This necklace is about 18 inches in length and the pendent measures 3 by 5 1/4 inches.

This is for the Beadweaving Emporium (BEM) New Horizon's Challenge. You can check out all of the entries and vote for your favorite at the Market's Blog!

I am really proud of myself with this piece. This is a little out of the box for me, but I had so much fun making it. I really love the way it looks and it looks even better on. I wore it for a little bit the other day and was very happy with it. If you'd like to see more pictures stop by my 1000 Markets store for a closer look. And while you're at 1000 markets don't forget to search "BEMC" for all the wonderful entries.

1000 Markets - Beadweavers Emporium

Looking for unbelievable beaded products? Well check out the NEW Beadweavers Emporium at 1000 Markets.

This market is filled with absolutely beautiful beaded lovelies, like; necklaces, bracelets, earrings, broaches, and handbags.

Don't believe me, check out a few of these beauties.





And yes I am a proud member of this unbelievably talented group of people. Check out all the artists out today.

I've been Featured

My copper beaded ring has been featured on Moods and Appetites. I was so excited to find out my ring was featured.


Here is a better view of this ring. I really love how the copper beads look in this ring. Simple but still lovely.

This ring is in my 1000 Markets store.

It's all done peyote stitch with copper beads as the main color of the band and then "pearl" seed beads as the decorative edge.

All the beads in my store are made to order, just let me know your size and you can have your very own ☺

I just had to show off a little bit. I'm really loving 1000 Markets so far. I've been featured on their community page, and now I've been featured on a user's blog. Awesome.

Well I'm off to create a couple more cocktail rings (teaser, stay tuned for those coming up soon)!

Green Goddess Earrings

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

I just got a new pair of earrings up in my store. They are a pretty simple pair of dangle earrings, but I still thing they are pretty cool.

I tried something new when I made the earwires. I put a tiny yellow agate bead on the earwire as an accent for the golds and yellows in the glass beads. I think it's kinda of a cool concept.

As always all the hardware is sterling silver.

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I've been working on a few new cuffs over the holiday season. These are pretty simple, but still beautiful. I also decided to bead these up and not attach them to the leather cuffs. This gives them a little bit more of a delicate look. I really like them and hopefully I'll be able to get some pictures taken today or tomorrow!

Purple Hoops

So I've been pretty lazy during my time off from work. I had such a long list of accomplishments, and I have only actually accomplished a couple of them. I've been a little lazy when it comes to blog posting and posting new items in my store. I also have been so far behind on catching up on all my comments, I promise I'll get to them soon. I promise.

I have got a few new things made up (oh no, now I need to drag out the photo tent again and take new pictures).

I have a few new cuffs that I need to get some new pictures of. I'm very pleased with them.

But I also have a new pair of purple beaded hoops up in my store. I love these hoops. The purple beads are so rich and beautiful. The purple and silver beads are both silver lined, so they really catch the light and sparkle. I'm loving these so much (okay I know, I love purple and always will). They just look so beautiful on.

I really like making the beaded hoops, because they use a smaller amount of beads, I can use all my "left over" beads. I have so many more color combos that I can't wait to try out.

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So it's snowing here again. Which is nice, it's been so warm here almost all of the snow has melted. Lets see if we get all of it back.

Well I'm off for now to work on a new cuff and to work on my own website. I'm hoping to have that baby up and running by my birthday next year; so in a couple months. I can't wait to have one central location for everything.

Still Exhausted

Well I'm officially still exhausted from the holiday season, and it's not really over yet! I've only just begun getting back into the "productive" mode. I'm working on a cuff, and planning my next challenge entry (hint: I'm trying something I've never tried before for this one, woohoo ☺)

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I've been busy trying to get all my merchandise in my 1000 markets store. I've been listing like crazy lately. I have a whole bunch of made to order beaded rings.

I also have a few other things. I have a great orange striped cuff. The colors remind me of hard candy, yummy!

It's simple, but still pretty fun. I've been focusing on a little bit more of a geometric style lately; more shapes and lines. I'm enjoying the simple beauty that it leads too. I've always loved simple lines, so I'm trying to express this in my beadwork and even in my new lampwork beads. Sometimes simple can be very beautiful.

I've also been working with fireline for the first time. I've never used it before, so stay tuned for a few new cuffs that aren't on leather. They should be really nice.


I also have been working with some new materials. Right now it's freshwater pearls. I kinda went on a buying spree over the summer, I think I ended up with at least 10 different colors. They are all so beautiful, but I had never done a lot of work with them. So finally I decided to try and idea out.

I made a pair of earrings for myself using vintage Japanese rounds. They are pretty fun to wear and I always get a lot of complements when I wear them, so I decided to try it with the freshwater pearls. I think this design works nicely.

Again, this design is pretty basic and simple, but still oh so pretty. And I just love the color of these pearls, a beautiful ruby red color. It's so rich.

All of these things are in my 1000 Markets store.

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Thank you everyone that stopped by over the holidays. We all had a pretty good Christmas here. I wanted to get some pictures of all the snow we got, but it got pretty warm that last couple of days and actually has been raining here. So maybe I'll get some new snow pictures up later.

Again I hope everyone had a happy holiday season, and I hope the new year brings more happiness and creativeness.

Five Golden Rings

Well not quite, but I do have a few new beaded rings to offer up today.

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I just listed a few new beaded rings in my 1000 Markets store.

All of these rings are made to order, so If you see something you like, let me know what size you need.

I really like making the beaded rings, and I really love wearing them. I have a number of different rings myself.

Most of the rings I listed are just simple beaded bands, some with a little embellishment, but nothing to fancy.


But I did list a really fun cocktail ring. I used a really pretty teal color and some frosted glass squares. I really love how it turned out.

I couldn't wait to show it off. I wanted to keep this one too, but I figured I already have two, that's enough for now ☺

My cocktail rings are not made to order, but feel free to order a custom one in any color and size you would like.

All of my beaded rings can be found in my 1000 Markets store. Check them out HERE.

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Looks like the snow here has stopped for now. Monday should be sunny (but a mere 7˚, burrrr). But the snow should be back by Tuesday. I'll post some new pictures of all the snow here in Wisconsin. It will be a pretty snow filled Christmas this year.

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Lots of New News!

Well the weeks is winding down. I only have a couple more days left of work, and then a wonderful 2 week vacation. Oh how nice that will be. I have a lot planned for those weeks. I have a few Christmas dinners, and a couple of parties, plus I think I am going to start working on my own website. I've been putting it off and putting it off, but I think it's time for me to step up and work on it. That should be interesting. And my mind is just overflowing with new ideas, I can't wait to have enough free time to just sit down and work. WooHoo.

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Next up is the winner of the December Etsy-Beadweaver's Street Team Challenge winner. A big congratulations to Karin of Gypsy Eyes Jewelry who won with her Queen of the Frozen Tundra necklace. It is truly a beautiful necklace.

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*UPDATE*
My Sea Goddess Necklace has been featured on the community page on 1000 Markets as a Staff Pick. Awesome.
Check it out here.

And finally I have a few new lampwork beads up on etsy. They are fun little focal beads. Click HERE to check that out.

I also have a new necklace up on 1000 markets. It's one of my favorite, favorite ones. It was really hard for me to put it up for sale, but J keeps telling me that I'll never make any money by hording everything I make for myself. LOL.

It really is lovely. I just went crazy during a pearl sale a few months back. I couldn't help myself, I bought every color I could get my little hands on. Problem is, I had never ever worked with pearls before and had no idea what to do with then. Well looking through my bead stash one day I discovered that the light green ones matched some glass beads I had, and this necklace was born.

It's NINE strands of tiny little transparent purple seed beads. I then used the freshwater pears and the glass beads for accents, but it need something more. I have some aluminum beads, that again, I had no idea what to do with, so I decided they would give a nice light weight sparkles to the necklace. And of course it's all topped off with a sterling silver toggle clasp.

I made this necklace a few months back, it's been to a couple shows with me, and everyone seems to love it. But I just wasn't able to get a decent picture of it, and I still don't feel these pictures do it much justice. It is much more vibrant in person.

You can check it out in my 1000 markets shop if you'd like.

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And one more picture of my sleeping cats. I just can't get over them sitting next to each other for a few hours without trying to kill each other.

Here they are sleeping. But don't let this picture fool you, they are not angles, not even close. They both can be such naughty little things, but we love them no matter what.

♥Happy Weekend!!!♥

WooHoo it's the weekend. And I've finally started my Christmas shopping, nothing like waiting for the last minute (I still have a week and a half, I'm fine). It strange because I'm usually the one who's done with Christmas shopping months in advance. But this year I've been busy, so it's been put off. But now I get to do my favorite thing, WRAP PRESENTS. I absolutely love to wrap gifts and make bows. I've been told I should charge and hourly wage and do it professionally, but who doesn't like to wrap gifts, isn't that half the fun, hehehehe.

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But enough about that. I just wanted to let everyone know that I have opened a 1000 markets store. Just another venue to get my name out there. I really like 1000markets, and I think they have really nice things and really fantastic artists.

Check out my store and even leave a message if you like. I'll be adding new things soon. Here are a couple of the things I have in my 1000 markets store. A pair of teal and purple beaded hoops and a wonderful blue beadwork cuff.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT.