Today's jewelry

[firecat]

Floating necklaces made out of plastic "pearls" and pale blue seed beads



three strand choker



one strand necklace


detail of one strand necklace

Comments

[elynne.livejournal.com]

ooooh... those are lovely. Are they on fishing line, or something else? And are you knotting to keep the beads in place, or crimping, or something else again? I am agog. :D

[firecat]

They're on nylon monofilament.

As for keeping them in place, that's the cool part. Not sure I'll be very good at explaining it, though. You string a seed bead, a pearl, and a seed bead. Then you put the thread back into the pearl and the first seed bead you strung (so the thread passes around the last seed bead). Then you put the thread back through the opposite way - skip the first seed bead and put the thread into the pearl and the last seed bead. That anchors the group. (This is from a tip in Bead & Button magazine.)

[lysana.livejournal.com]

You explained it perfectly for how my mind works. Thanks. I must try this sometime.

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Purdy! And thanks for the desc of the technique.

Are you still on the SF Bay Beaders mailing list, btw? Someone's hosting a beading gathering on 2/7 in Sunnyvale.

[firecat]

I'm on it, and I sent a tentative rsvp to them, but haven't yet received directions.

[firecat]

By the way, thanks for the scanner tip. As you can see, it works pretty well!

[bobbylevi.livejournal.com]

Very nice!!

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

Wow! Very nice!

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

*pretty*

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[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I'm in lust!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

They're even purtier in person. :-) *bounce*!

[bayarts.livejournal.com]

I love their light & airy quality...so fragile looking. beeeee u tiii ful

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[firecat]

Thank you!

[circumspectly.livejournal.com]

my lord, these are LOVELY!! the way you described the beading technique works *purrrrrrrrrfectly* for my brain.

i love these! are you selling them??

yeah, i'm slow, but school started, and i'm all behind and stuff.

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[firecat]

Thanks! I'm glad the description worked for you.

Yes, I'm selling them. Send me email at stef at cat-and-dragon dot com to discuss details.