Mother's Day Necklace

I was trying to decide what to get for my mother for Mother's Day, and because I do not have alot of money, I decided to make her something. I looked through the beads I have, and choose one of the new heart shaped beads that I had gotten when I went to get Jewelry making supplies last week. I also choose some blue and white seed beads, and some beads a little bit bigger that had blue and off white colors. So I made the'charm' part that I hung the glass heart shaped bead, then started with the seed beads in a blue and white pattern alternating with the slightly larger beads and increasing the number of seed beads as I added more beads to the necklace. I worked from both ends of necklace, with the heart charm in the middle, making it symmetrical. of course at one point added my 'flaw' seed bead. Then I used crimp beads and toggle clasp to finish the necklace, with a crimp bead cover as well. If you like this and want one like it email me at skayc1@yahoo.com, and I will make one for you. I am not at this time posting this on Etsy, unless someone wants me to.

Having fun using the bead loom!

It had been over a year since I used a loom to make a bracelet, I suppose I stopped for two reasons, well three anyhow; my loom that I had somehow broke, I was very busy with school and romance, and I was having trouble with my eyesight in that I had a blurry spot. The blurry spot was caused by diabetic retinopathy (sorry can't spell) and while it hasn't gone away, it is less noticable most days..in other words I've gotten used to it. School is winding down, I wont be graduating just yet, although the two classes I need to graduate are only offerred in the spring semester so I have to wait. As for the loom, well I bought another one when I went to shopping for some Jewelry making supplies. While I was shopping, I just had to look at the beads! I found this seed bead color that I decided to get, as well as heart shaped toggle clasp's and even a heart shaped glass beads. The heart shaped glass bead I'll use at a later time. First thing I wanted to do was to use the loom, so I got my supplies out, chose three colors of seed beads, including the color I got from my latest shopping trip, which was sorta a purple/ lavender kind of color. the other two colors I used were pink and white. I love how the heart shaped toggle clasp look on this bracelet, I did make it a bit big for my wrist, so it will fit someone who wears an 8" bracelet size. Despite the fact that I am very tall, and a little bit overweight, I have very small wrist.

The picture to the left shows the bracelet when it was still on the loom.

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listing_id=24481342 .

Just made Today- Little Girl Necklace

I was looking through my bits n pieces of beads, the leftovers from previous times when I have made Jewelry for my family and friends, and decided to make a necklace to put up on Etsy! I had this bead that came in a three pack, three girl faces made from polymer clay, well two of them I had made necklaces with for my two youngest nieces and had one face leftover. I decided to use that bead in my necklace. I have the tendancy to buy beads from the craft store if they are cute, or I think I might like to use them in my Jewelry, well I had some gold sead beads that I hadn't even used yet, so that would make up the bulk of my necklace, next I recreated the same pattern I had used when I designed the necklaces for my nieces, and then strung the beads on to my string......making sure to include one 'flaw' bead. It's easy to find, unlike the bracelet in my previous post where the color variation is hard to see at first! as allways you can email me at skayc1@yahoo.com or visit my Etsy account-http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7175191

Making Flower Bracelet's

Several Years ago my sister went to work at a summer camp in the mid-west, and during one of her visit's back home, brought with her some seed beads. I was intrigued by these small tiny beads, and after she showed me the technique of making a flower pattern with them on a string, I was hooked! I loved the feel of the beads in my hands, and found out that they came in many wide ranges of color! Latter I taught myself how to make more than just the flower bracelet shown hear, which I will share with you at a later time. In my Jewelry work I like to put one 'flaw' a color of bead that isn't part of the color pattern. It represets that we as human beings are not perfect, that even though we are flawed, we are still one of God's Beautiful creations and deserving of his love. If you would like one of these bracelet's in your choice of colors email me at skayc1@yahoo.com .

The listing for this Item on Etsy -http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24258722

Magic Forest- Story of the making

When I worked for a call center answering Customer Service calls for an internet company we would once in awhile have the online programs that we used go down. One such day when we were not receaving as many calls because of this, I went online and asked my friends in a group I was a member what should I draw? One person wrote back 'You should draw a forest', one person said you should draw a frog wearing a hat, another person said 'an elf' .So I started to draw the trees, an elf, two frogs, which I googled the picture to look at, and the mushrooms. I put hats on top of the frogs then I also decided to add flowers. I showed this drawing to a fellow employee and the suggested that I add butterflies so I did! I liked how it was looking and gave it the name 'Magic Forest'. Etsy-http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=24142086 . If you have a creative Idea of a drawing you would like for me to draw for you, then email me at skayc1@yahoo.com

'Joe Sleeping' - Story of the making of

I love to use colored pencil to draw people, I'll just pick up a pencil and get the outlines then finish the drawing using colored pencil at a latter time. I find it very easy to take the colored pencils with me everywhere I go, so when I was visiting Joe I had them with me. Joe had started not feeling well, and decided to sleep late. I of course was pouting and wanted him to wake up, only he didn't. So me being board silly decided to get my pad and paper out, and went and sat on the floor beside the bed, and started to draw Joe sleeping. I thought he looked soo cute I just couldn't resist. It was latter when I went home that I used the colored pencils to color him in. Like any artist when I'm inspired to draw something, first I sketch what I see, then later, I modify certain things in the drawing, while keeping it real. I also will use photos to draw from, which I will share in another Blog. Here is a picture of Joe for you to compare. Do you think it looks like him? If you would like me to do a drawing of you or your loved ones, then you can email me at skayc1@yahoo.com or go to my Etsy account and choose from what I have offerred, I will be putting up more of my art on etsy as time goes by. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7175191 I also make Jewelry as well !