Thinking Out Loud

I posted several new beads before July 4th in the last few days.  I am trying to catch up.  Check them out if they are not automatically notifying you.  More to go tonight.  I figured I have 26 more to post the catch up.  I have about 12 made, but it takes time to post them.  I just have to keep editing out mistakes. 

My skills are improving, but slowly.  My new camera is fool-proof, but I am not a fool.  It is difficult for me.  Lighting is my worst problem.  I have not had the time to go outside in the early morning to take pictures.  That is my best time. 

You will see more in the future.  I love to bead.

Day 81: Come Summer Earrings

What comes after Come Summer Necklace?  Of course, it is a pair of earrings.  I like this one.  It dangles long, but delicately; that seems to be the criteria for me. 

I used two Swarovki Coral Pearls, a bit of chain and more 4mm crystals.  It goes well with my necklace.

Day 80: Come Summer

This fun necklace was created for a contest for the Fusion Bead Blog.  They offered a variety of beads to make into a piece of jewelry (and not at a discount either, spent $30+).  I wrestled with the flowers for a week.  They wouldn't stay on top of the chain unless you displayed it only.  I was never satisfied with that so I didn't enter it in the competition. 

I still love it even if the flowers are always upside-down.  The hook is on the end of the chain and fastens to the end of the flowers.  I wanted it versatile so you could wear it long or short or trail the flowers off the end.  Some ideas never work out.  It is made of Swarovski Pearls in Coral, Swarovski Bicones in a Watermelon Combo pack and gold chain and lucite flowers in two styles.  There is also a pack of mixed seed beads, but I didn't work them in.  This is my creation called Come Summer.

Sunday Gems

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: 
Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
                      --Matthew 13: 45,46.

Day 67: Out of the Box Earrings

This pair of earrings deserves its own page because of the technique used to wire wrap.  The refer to it as 'the messy wire wrap bail'.  It is simply made (see FusionBeads.com , go to techniques, and messy bail).  It has a messy, bird's nest look to it.  I thought it was appropriate for Out of the Box.

What a circus act we women perform every day of our lives.  --Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Day 66: Out of the Box

This is not your mother's pearls.  (Well, for some of you it is my pearls, but you know what I mean.)  I decided to think out of the box for these pretty turquoise baroque pearls.  They sat by a package of plum fringe and I thought, "Why not?  It would be fun."  I strung them together and I like it.  Not everyone will.  My thoughts are turquoise goes so well with all the colors that I wear.  I like it with purple, too. 

Distraction is, always has been, and probably always will be, inherent in woman's life.--Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Day 65: Swirls of Citrine Earring

I just have to feature this earring separately.  It is a different style for me.  I don't wear it much, but it picks up the round, type one, theme of the necklace focal MOP*. 

The beads are attached with a light gauge wire and wound around the round earring with a citrine nugget attached in the center to drop at the bottom. 

 Fun summer set. 

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much....  One finds one is shedding not only clothes--but vanity. --Ann Morrow Lindbergh

*Mother of Pearl

Day 64: Swirls of Citrine

This necklace has been around for a year or two, but exemplifies the sea so well.  I just have to include it.  Made from Citrine stones and Mother of Pearl beads and a lovely swirling Golden MOP focal bead.  So beautiful.

 



Necklace and earring set.

I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily--like a hermit crab.  -Ann Morrow Lindberg



Day 63: Coral Classic

Maybe not totally classic.  Pearls are always classic.  Hexagonal shaped Mother of Pearl (MOP) in coral may not be so classic. This is the beginning of a month at the beach.  Some new and some not so new jewelry jewels from the sea.  I have tons of MOP in all shapes and colors.  This is my first creation of the month.  Love it! 

I have been keeping this large acrylic bead

forever to use as a focal bead. 

It goes so well with the MOP.

One should like empty, open, choiceless as a beach--waiting for a gift from the sea. Ann Morrow Lindberg

Day 62: Gift From the Sea

Gift From the Sea is the name of a sweet little book written by Anne Morrow Lindberg,  the wife of Charles Lindberg some 40 years ago.  I have a tiny version of   Wisdom from Gift...that has little quotes from the main book. 



Day 29: By the Sea



I plan to quote from this book in August as I use the theme in my jewelry.  This month will be precious beads from the oceans of the world.  Enjoy.