Copper Heart & Blue Sky Green

Dreary foggy rainy day today, a perfect day to play with beads!

copper heart

blue sky green

Blue Ice

 I am totally loving the clear blown glass beads in this necklace, they are spectacular! Of course I have them paired with beautiful vintage glass beads, both variations of blue and white. They all look wonderful with the sterling silver chain.

I did however have a hard time photographing the clear beads. I also made a pair of earrings with the clear beads and cannot seem to get a good photo of them. I will try again in the  morning with some kind of contrasting background.

blue ice

Lemon Yellow

Lovely lemon yellow vintage glass beads paired with equally gorgeous oxidized sterling silver ear wires! 

lemon yellow

Milky Orange Cabbages

Wow, February already, time is flying!

I have been playing with the new vintage glass beads and the gorgeous earring findings that I bought. They are all so gorgeous!

coppery milky white

 

fresh orange swirls

cabbage flowers

Pink Puffs

I was away for a week and a half, and when I got home I had a wonderful packet of vintage glass beads waiting for me. I had ordered them from VintageBeadBroker before I left. I am more than pleased with the beads, they are all very lovely!

pink puffs

Strawberry Points and Pale Blue Pods

This week I got a box of supplies that I had ordered from the Etsy shop, frill.

I bought 5 linen busts from her, to display and photograph my necklaces. I also bought some very pretty glass beads.

pale blue pods

Pretty pale blue vintage glass beads, paired with  sterling silver findings and chain.

strawberry points

Gorgeous vintage German mottled glass beads, paired with  sterling silver findings and chain.

I tried to photograph both pairs of earrings on my copper boxes, but was not happy with the results. I remembered how pretty Moosewood cookbook's recipes are, and voila... my earrings are displayed on the Moosewood Fudge Brownie recipe!! I am very pleased with how the photos turned out.

Lu is not having a good day. He is still eating and drinking but has taken to sleeping under our bed. Good days and bad days... he still likes lots of attention when he is awake.

Thanksgiving weekend. Mark and I are home alone. Whoo! Holidays aren't quite the same when there is not other family around. Hopefully we will get some yard and garden chores done this weekend.

Chunky Copper Chain

Last week my friend Kathy sent me some copper chain to try out. I have never worked with chain before, so it is a bit of a challenge for me, and this chain is large and chunky!

I have combined the chain with vintage yellow and white swirled glass beads. Very simple design. I have just listed this necklace in my Etsy shop.