Fun Earrings for Winter Wearing

You can never go wrong with Wasser glass

and hand painted clay discs...

Wasser glass 'Swiss Cheese' style 

with Mykonos glazed clay coins and turquoise 

glass Marquise flats supporting it all.

Mykonos high glazed clay shapes, wired
together by weaving with an Earthenware
"Sputnik" hangie underneath.

Mint Jullep "Swiss Cheese" style Wasser glass

shapes suspended from a hand formed copper

hook & jump rings'''

Stoneware "button mold" beads which look woven

and topped with stacked wood discs and

Bonn Beads Picasso Czech trades.

Smoky Quartz chunks swing nicely from

clay button mold beads acc ented with lemon

yellow African trades and horn tubes.

Then back to double Wasser shapes under

a stoneware hand painted ring and copper...

Making Ceramic Beads & Pendants

Making Ceramic Beads & Pendants

Ceramic Beads and Pendants can take all sorts of

shapes and sizes...

For instance, these textured clay discs have been

connected by a C-lon crochet cord to form a necklace.

These interesting discs could become earrings

or a necklace as well...

And these large discs and lone spirit hole

are connected with Bonn Beads Picasso trades

and blob beads making a subtle statement necklace.

Earrings emerge using pairs of fun clay beads...

Even a pair of button molded tic-tac-toe clay

beads accented with Labradorite drops

or large textured clay discs complemented with

beach glass shapes

become Fun-to-Wear clay creations...why not

plan to join us at our next adventure in 

Making Ceramic Beads & Pendants ! 

CUTEsie Pitcher

Both sides of the latest CUTEsie pitcher

to finally get glazed and fired!

More Crochet-ing with Beads...

...Found this really nice waxed cotton bead cord 

at Blue Santa Beads, Media, PA. I t has a nice twist

to it and is not overly waxy to the touch.

This is the C-lon 400 cord which works nicely with

my glass and ceramic bead pieces, found objects, etc.

I did get a bit carried away with this one which

ended up being over 8 feet long - 

What a Wrap!

A Necklace for Yvonne

A simple piece of driftwood found on Martha's Vineyard

transforms one of my reversible clay pendants into

a natural statement asking to be worn...

Autumnal Earrings

Clay Beads made in my Monday Bead Class

are transformed into earrings...

Stoneware slabs accented with Robin's Egg

Underglaze, suspended from Mykonos bails.

Perferated Scroddled Stoneware Slabs

suspended from the same Mykonos

bails and 16 gauge copper rings.

Handcut tumbled glass discs by Emily Cohen

Catfish Studio, stack nicely over extruded

stoneware ovals accented with terra

sigillata and underglaze.

Crochet a Necklace with Beads

If you can do a chain stitch 

and nothing else crochet-wise, you're in business! 

Simply gather together all those 

leftover beads you have enmassed from past projects,

load them onto some S-lon cord and you're good to go...

Your finished necklace will look more like this
when you wear it especially if it is over 72" long!