More Beady Creations

I thought I would share the rest of the beaded creations Wendy and I made while I was in Tucson. Wendy bought these turtle shell type beads last year at the bead show. She gave me a few so I think I will make something similiar. I love the coppery color of this necklace. We took some silver clasps and painted them copper since we couldn't find any copper clasps.
This light green and copper necklace was also from stuff Wendy had in her stash. I made this for her. Simple but very pretty.

These next two necklaces were quick and easy. I strung the chips with some black pearls and the attached them to chain. A great way to use a few beads and have a great necklace. Or two.

Wendy and I went to Michael's and I found some cool silver chain that was on sale for 2 for $5.00. Just too good a buy to pass up. I made two necklaces and matching bracelets. I can't wait to wear these as they are fun!

I have one other necklace that I made but forget to photograph. It is blue with crystals and shells and chain. I will have to get a picture and post it.

I spent today doing laundry and some cleaning. I also was very busy on the computer and got six digital scrapbook pages done. I found another place to have my pages printed and I think I will try them out and see how they turn out. I am off to work on our master bathroom. I am cleaning cabinets, drawers and medicine cabinets. I just finished the book It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh and I am going to really try and tame the clutter monster that lives in my house. I am starting in the master bedroom and bathroom.

Beady Creations

Well, my ten day vacation is slipping by much too fast. I am looking forward to being back home and seeing my loved ones and even being back at work. I don't like hearing about work and not being there. Wendy and I have done some beading. This first bracelet is from a kit called Crystalesque Bracelet from Wild Flower Beads. This was a fun bracelet to make and the colors are great. I am planning to wear it home on Saturday with my Valentine's Day shirt.
This second braclet is also a kit from Wild Flower Beads called the Lori Bracelet. I am not sure you can see the small metal pieces that are in this bracelet. They are called smiley faces. I have never seen them before, they are small smile shaped pieces of metal with holes on both ends to string your thread through. I really like this bracelet and am hoping to find more smiley faces since I could make these in all colors now that I have the pattern. FUN!

This last picture is of a necklace that Wendy and I put together. This necklace will live with Wendy since she bought all the pieces. There are two Kazuri beads and three metal pieces that she got from Antelope Beads. She was really happy with the way it turned out.

I have two more kits but am not sure I will start them while I am here. I need to leave something to do once I get home.

I finished the book Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich and started Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat? Should be interesting.

A Saturday in Tucson, AZ

I am spending a week in Tucson Arizona with my best buddy Wendy. I arrived on Thursday and we went to two bead shows. You can certainly tell the economy has affected the crafting community. The show that was our favorite had about 1/3 the amount of booths as last year. Friday we went to two more bead shows and again they were disappointing. I did purchase four kits and they were a good value. I play to work on one of them tomorrow so hopefully they will have good instructions.

Today we went to the Rennaisance Fair in Apache Junction, AZ. Here is the link to see all the amazing things you can do at a Ren Fair. We had such a great time, we saw lots of great shows and had some really good food. We spent the whole day there and the weather was fabulous.

Tomorrow we plan to chill at the house. It is supposed to rain and get cold so we are planning to bead and enjoy the day at home. I am here until Saturday morning so I will be checking back in soon.

Two More Bracelets

Here are two more bracelets that I finished this week. They are the same bracelet pattern just different colors. It is from a kit at Wal-mart that was $3.96. You can't beat the price and the bracelet was fun to make and very cute. I have worn the pink one already!

Bracelets Finished

I have been beading again at night. We watched the season finale of Can You Duet? and then I stayed up and watched a DVD - 21 Grams so I had plenty of time to work on beads. Both of the bracelets are from kits from Wal-Mart. Yes, you read that right Wal-Mart. Can you believe it? Now they are not real crystals in the kits but for the $4-5 I paid for each kit I
thought they turned out rather nice. I have another one finished but it has gone MIA. I am sure one of the cats has it hidden. I also have one other kit to finish but they were fairly easy, fairly quick and loads of fun!

Bracelets Galore

I raided my stash of UFO's (UnFinished Objects) and found two bracelets that needed clasps. Why is it so much more fun to start a new craft project than finish up one that is already started? This bracelet is made from a pattern in The Best of Bead & Button and is Criss-cross Embellished Bracelet. This is the second bracelet that I have made from this pattern.
This second bracelet also needed a clasp. I was at my local bead store and saw a bracelet that I really liked so I came home and went through my beads and came up with this. It is not quite like the one at the bead store but I thought it turned out pretty nice and sparkly.

The third bracelet was finished at 11 p.m. one night last week. I have this cool new shirt that I was wearing to work and I had to have a matching bracelet. This is Peyete Eyelet Bracelet from Alice Korach and it was published at BeadBugle.com.