Sue Beads

I've also been really enjoying making these new large hole beads - the ammonites in particular.  But I am also having a lot of fun picking out colors of the 10 billion pieces of murrini I have and putting them on large hole beads too!  You can find these in my etsy store too!

I also have a selection of cabochons left from my Bead Fest inventory - some ammonites and also some new arty ones I did.  You can find them in the SueBeads etsy store!

This is a dish that my boyfriend got for me in Hilton Head on our trip to help my parent's pack up our wonderful family beach house.  They sold it and we won't be going there anymore.  I'm sad.  
This dish is made from goniatite fossil -  it's an extinct group of ammonoids (cephaolopods) that were related to the octopus and squid.  They swarmed the oceans approximately 390 million years ago - these were from Morocco and carved in India.  So cool!
Have a Happy Valentine's Day!

I've not been blogging or checking blogs or much of anything since probably the beginning of October.  Even really before that, with getting ready for Bead Fest and ArtBLISS and another bead show I did.  But my boyfriend's father fell and became ill in the beginning of October, and sadly passed at the beginning of December.  Then there were the holidays.  Then I got really sick with what I think was pneumonia.  I am still really tired, having been given blood pressure medication due to my thyroid issue - I'm wondering how long the fatigue will last before I get used to it.  But I've been slowly working on polymer clay, as you may have noticed, simple things, not very complicated yet, as I really don't have a dedicated work space for this.  My kitchen table it covered with polymer stuff!  But I think these rustic word beads turned out pretty nice!  You can get them in my SueBeads etsy store a little later today!

 I also added more ammonite connectors, this time with…