Sue Beads

It's that time again - time for the Art Jewelry Elements Component of the Month challenge. This time, it was Melissa Meman who provided us with some morsels to play with!  She makes awesome copper clay components.  This is the one I chose. I knew I wanted to do bead weaving (again!!!) and I picked some awesome colors to go along with the copper - peacock blue and wisteria. I did a spiral rope with size 8 peacock color beads and size 11 wisteria. I have to say, I don't like this method of using 3 8s as the base and 4 11s as the spiral - it's too loose for me.  I will write about this for my Tuesday post on AJE.  I used some beautiful angelite faceted rounds I had as an accent to the necklace, with about an inch of spiral rope in between the trio of beads.  The color of this angelite is really amazing!  As I was toggle clasp deficient, I decided to make some.  I punched 22 gauge copper sheet with my disc cutter, cut a hole in it, textur...

I made a bunch of bicone beads last week, my new favorite shape - but didn't get to list them until now, cuz I've been working that paying job.  So tonight I had a major shop update and listed all of them - lots of bead pairs, and some bead sets.  Please take a look in the SueBeads etsy store to purchase!

I'm part of a new group, Beading Back in Time, and today is the reveal for our blog hop challenge!  This quarter, our challenge was Pre-Human.  Make something from or with something that applies to the pre-human period in Earth's history! Here's what I made.  I used one of my own Ammmonite Lampwork cabochons as the base.  I chose colors that I felt went well with the focal.  I did a beading around a cabochon bezel and learned how to do a picot edge!  I was quite happy with myself!  The spiral rope is made with matching beads, the clasp is bronze by Saki Silver.  I did a simple loop bail to attach the ammonite cab to the spiral rope. Check out what the other members of Beading Back in Time made for this quarter's challenge! Co-hostess:   Lindsay Starr of Phantasm Creations Co-hostess:  Sherri Stokey of Knot Just Macrame   Kelly Rodgers of Beadin' Black & Blue   Michelle McCarthy of Firefly Design Stu...