New bracelets, necklace on Etsy

I posted these items on Etsy today. The bracelets are $30 each and the cross necklace is $24. Click here to visit my etsy shop. You can buy through etsy or by contacting me at studio23art@yahoo.com.

Still loving the beach glass

Here's another bracelet in my beach glass craze collection - I'm not sick of these yet! I made these beads a while back and they were just sitting around waiting to be made into something. I mixed them with brown seed beads instead of trying to match the colors in the glass, and I'm happy with the way it came out. 

Chunky and funky

This is a bracelet/necklace I made for myself to go with a dress I was wearing to my friend's wedding. I learned a new way to make semi-hollow beads that are pretty big compared to what I normally make, and I still love the etched transparent glass, so this is what I came up with. This has 3 huge beads - almost an inch wide - with a bunch of smaller, "normal" sized ones. I wore it all day as a double wrapped bracelet, and then when it was colder and I had to put on a jacket, I switched it to a choker necklace so you could still see it - perfect! And it's been years since I've worn gold, but my dress had some gold tones in it and so I used kind of a tarnished gold wire. I like the look - the chunkiness is different and so is the gold. Here's the dress, too - on the Ann Taylor Loft model - forgot to get pictures of myself with the dress and the jewelry!  

New golf beads

I made a few more sets of golf beads with fun colors. Click to enlarge the picture. The picture doesn't really do justice to the colors. The blue in the blue/green one is really a dark royal or cobalt blue. It looks nice with the lime green.

Trying something new

There's this really cool site where people can sell all things handmade - it's called Etsy.com. I've been curious for a while about how it works. There's a lot of neat stuff on there, but I wonder with so much stuff for sale, does anybody buy any of it, or is it mostly the crafters (like me) who browse the site (but don't buy anything)? There really is a ton of stuff - I just searched on "lampwork necklace" and got 410 pages of stuff. What if your listing is on page 410? How does anyone ever see it? Well, there's not much to lose by listing stuff there so I set up an account and I'll see how it goes. Anyway, here are the necklaces I posted on my etsy account. They're all solid hearts strung with either seed beads and/or freshwater pearls. $48 each. You can visit my etsy shop directly at www.studio23art.etsy.com.

New Stuff

It's finally spring again! Time to get out on the golf course with your new stroke counter and enjoy a drink afterwards with a handy wine charm on your glass - with the fun colors of the season. These particular sets are for sale at the Lochmoor Club Pro Shop, but are also available by special order. See the Studio23art.com "Other" page. Choose colors to match your golf bag or your mood!

Perfectly Imperfect Beads

It's hard for me to make beads that aren't uniform... once I get an idea in my head of what I want to make, I want that particular set to be perfect and all the same, which isn't necessarily a bad thing for certain jewelry designs, but it makes me feel like I'm not being adventurous enough sometimes. So I tried yesterday to make beads that weren't quite so "perfect." They're definitely not uniform, but what I realized was that once I made the first imperfect one of the set, I kept trying to make the others just like it. Luckily for my experiment, the glass and the torch wouldn't let them be the same. These are the beads that came out of it.