John William Waterhouse mermaid

I love Waterhouses art work and saw a pendant similar to mine in a mag a while back,i used to do decoupage so no problem doing the pendant and all the bits came together as Etsy finds came in and just slotted into place.
I am enjoying the fashion of mixed metals especially silver and copper,this is simple but nice.

White Opal Lotus

This is one of my etsy finds again a sort of lotus flower with side bits.I knew what i wanted to do right away as i love white opal swarovskis and i buy lots of 4mm from abovefashion an ebay seller,around $4 a hundred,bargain i say.I didnt want to put silver beads inbetween and so it shines like mad.
The ring is part of a birthday lot paid for by my partner.Its mingj on ebay and you can buy ring settings there and cut gemstones ,just match the sizes,add a bit of glue,bend prongs,designer ring.The base was $8 and the peridot,which is brilliant cut round like a diamond was $20,another bargain,for a woman with not much money i look expensive haha. 51 tomorrow wow how did i get here lol.

Early Birthday Present or "look what i got"!

I received a cute little box from a beady friend in NC USA,i had an idea what is was but wasnt going to open it till my birthday,so while reading her blog i came across a post Julia's Sea Star and there it was,my present ,so off came the paper,open the box and look what i got,Aryd'ell made it for me and its amazing.
This is the first beaded thing i have been given,and didnt make myself and i love it.
I think the pattern is made by a woman called Lidia who hopefully will be selling it soon,as i won't to make one too.
The colours are fantastic and it looks so realistic,i am thrilled,thanks girlfriend!!

Bead Like An Egyptian

I spent the last couple of days making this just for the fun of it,i wasnt to bothered where threads and knots went and if i couldnt go up or down a bead as it was full of thread i did another bead,as happens when i bead for myself with no worries it came out great.It was originally a Toika Bridges RIP pattern but her wings were half the size and looked to small for the scrab and i wanted an OTT bezel around it.
I had just finished it and was so rapt but thinking its so typically egyptian like everyones egyptian work when a male friend of Daves came to visit and announced that my native american necklace was good,(he already has glasses) and that native americans use turquoise and silver like that,????,well then there you go not to egyptian after all,dare you to find coral,silver and turquoise in it,haha!

PHEW its over.

Yah xmas is over for another year,ahh its awful here,to hot,to noisy etc.This is a picture of my buddha i got for xmas,it is called meditating buddha but i think of it as resting,so lovely.
I finally finished Jaycee's pattern Firestorm2,which is lovely.I just have trouble with peyote with lots of colour changes,its me and though i get things done its always a long frusrating journey.
Strangely enough my most unfavourite colour of all time ORANGE!!!!now features in both my latest works,this one being a simple bracelet row of crystals.The pattern is at Rubys Beadwork,the herringbone bangle and i just used black 11's and fire opal 4mm crystals.As a helpful hint i inserted a chenille stem to help it keep stiff and bend nicer and used the trimmed metal ends of the stem to hook around the button magnetic clasps little holes,it held on much better and was easier to bead.I made it on new years eve and i think it looks like fireworks against the black sky,i buy most of my crystals from abovefashion on ebay.
My new grandson is due in 4 days and his mum is very fed up,its hard to be very prenant in the heat.

Julia's Favourite Brand

I bought this pattern from Claudia at Happyland,as a painful non-smoker i thought it was cute and funny and a perfect present for my fagging friend.The first one i made 2 small,2nd one proper size,they are fun and easy to make.

Xmas faery etc

No its not the xmas faery,well maybe to me,its my granddaughter Cleopatra in her faery dress that we bought her and doesnt she look rapt.
This is also the hot air balloon ornament i made her for xmas,its a Muridar Gardiner pattern that i have had for years,simple netting and a square stitch basket,hope she likes it.

Ahhhemm

Have been absent for quite a while now,my beading muse collapsed and my get up and go got up and went,i couldnt see anything i liked,couldnt see the point of beading anymore stuff to keep in my room for the occasional time i went out.
Sometimes life just becomes so small when you are permanetly ill,go nowhere,see and talk to no-one.
Lucky i had reluctantly signed up for the beaded hand challenge on BDZ,and had to finish it,i ran out of beads and had to send to the US for more,however finishing it felt so good,and i am slowly getting back on the horse.
I called my hand Maharani,i thought a female sultan but thats a sultana wasnt calling it that,hopefully it will be appreciated,my UK cousin asked if it was a real hand haha,a compliment i suppose?

Nacre

I found this pattern in a copy of bead and button magazine,i kept getting drawn back to it,which is odd as its not my usual style,or colours,pastels arrggg,so i decided to make it with the delicas i had on hand.I picked a transparent pink and a pearly white.
I learnt a lot making this,bead cages for the fire polished beads and just how you can be drwan to things,i decided it was because its so organic in style and flow,and i love Biwa pearls.I named it Nacre after the coating that is laid down by the oyster to make a pearl,it reminded me of the film Dr Doolittle i saw as a child when he goes inside the snails shell.
It is a spiral herringbone tube,with caged firepolish crystal beads,branch fringe and Biwa pearls,

India blues and new kit

I bought these silver beads from my local Spotlight store,they were on a small display and i loved them,i had some lovely blue stones and drops and voila i had india Blues.This set took me an hour to whip up and i love it to bits,this year blue seems to be my new purple lol.
i also bought myself a kit i had been coveting for ages from Sig Wynn-Evans called art nouveau dragons,its sort of gothic as well.After i had paid for it and saw how much it was after currency exchange into aussie dollars,i emailed Sig to tell her i had paid,the lovely woman put a matching earring kit in with it,how fab.
Sigs site is www.thebeadedbear.com and she has some great patterns,kits and patterns to buy as downloads,she is also the authour of The Cracked Bead which is ahysterical look at the beading world,with swear words thrown in,a really good read and a good warning haha.

Which came first?

The pants or the bangle,well the pants actually have had them since last summer and when i saw the 8 delica colour i thought wow,the other colour is gold but didnt photograph as gold but they look good together.

2 PEYOTE BANGLES

Just popped in to show my new peyote bangles made in 8 delicas,wow 8 delicas,youre fave bead now you can see it too!This was easy and fun,looks cool,and makes you want to make more.It would be great if you were learning peyote as the holes are big where the next bead needs to go.
My big news is that my new grandchild expected in jan is a BOY!!!as his sister is already here and the light of my life this is great news.
My girl poodle Roxy is 6 months old now and really was the pick of the litter shes a beauty.http://www.beadandbutton.com/bnb/Objects/PDF/bnb-on1206.pdf this is the link for the pattern,enjoy!!

Stone Pendants or Julias Everincreasing Beadstash

These 3 pendants are part of my latest thing,i found the 5 peice picture jasper?one while browsing on US ebay,the shop Walybeads has some of the most lovely stones,cut in every way and shape and i won all of these for great prices like $7us or so. Not sure what to do with them yet,but very pleased,wweeeeee!

Lovely Lotus

Well i have a thing about Lotus at the moment,you know how you do,have been buying pendants,looking at tattoos etc,and came across these base metal connectors,yes on Etsy! I dont actually have loads of money or time,its just that i spend a lot of time ill in bed,when i am ok but not to get up i browse etsy and as i havent been out for weeks have a little spare cash.
This IS my own design and i love it to bits,i wore black to the shops and it was just a stunner of a set.As my muse had deserted me and i thought my beading ability had gone out the window this picked me up no end.

VINTAJ BRASS BLUES

I saw this pic on a Vintaj brass ad in a magazine and then went to there site.Tracked down Vintaj bits here in oz at Alchemy and Ice. This necklace went together so well and i was very surprised at how the brass made the blue/green pop.
I have some other beads and shell pendants that could use something wrapped and glued to them,and also bought another focal bead and 4 round sea type focal beads from EbbNFlow on Etsy to make a sea themed one. I have had so many compliments and ooohhss and aahhhs when i wear it out and it can be a variety of lengths as i just added a toggle bar to one end chain side so it can be put through any link on the other side. Its certainly not my own design but i just love it!!!