Monday, August 28, 2017


Well the colors for this challenge are so right up my alley for gardening. I call it Sunset. I have some tulips and lilies that are somewhat colored like this.
When this picture is sitting on my desktop and small it looks like a sherbert orange so I was influenced by that too.
All of my beads are Polymer Clay.

These are coin beads, they sit just like you see them or can be strung as a small focal. I love coin beads foe bracelets. I really like the more orange one at the right top. At the bottom is green for leaves. 


I made pendants of the flower itself.


This one's a fatty but I still like it.


 Here's that peachy orange with flowers and petals.




I was somewhat frustrated with trying to create the striation of the petals going from pink through yellow with out too much yellow so I ended up with this color palette. It is softened down colors and swirled. I ended up liking them for the colors which remind me of Florida. 

 So now I address Erick's beetles!  I was trying to do an ancient scarab style beetle and these turned out with a Raku like finish. 
 

 This one was roughly carved and then pigmented.





 Thanks for the inspiration Erick!










Sunday, August 27, 2017

Still working and creating things for the Art Bead Scene August Challenge and I came across an inspiration from Pinterest. I know it is an ancient spear head but I thought that I read thar it was fossilized coral. Well I took me right to the painting


I adore it and usually if I can spot some red in a challenge I'll go for it! So here is my polymer clay fossilized coral spear head and beads. My young six year old friend asked me if it was a carrot!  

The white speckled beads are from Marsha Neal  and I have been looking for the perfect thing to use them in and I think I found it!

A more rustic  bead.

The whole necklace! 


Sunday, August 13, 2017

August Challenge

Twelve Princesses on the Way to the Dance
Kay Nieslen
Published in 1923
Watercolor and ink

This is what I saw



                               For some reason I am very interested in this shape and was playing around with  them and lo and behold here comes the ABS August challenge 


























First necklace with the polymer clay bead focal that I made. I also had been craving some cherry quartz from Lima Beads so since this one is for me I thought it was a happy addition. The lighter pink are from a site that I have to find again, hammered silver ring and the toggle from Fab Beads  on Etsy.