Living in LaLa Land

A bead embroidered lizard using a stacking technique and bocche stitch. The lizard tail was made by Linda Roberts, San Diego. Size 11, Delicas and bugle beads were used to create one of my most fave reptiles. Little gold rings and sequins serve as the lizard eyes.

Namaste

A bead embroidered pendant inspired by Sherry Serafini. A bone face is the focal point. Flowers, bugles, seed beads, a bird, leaves and crystal highlight this creation. It hangs on a size 8 Ndebele necklace.

Halloween 6-span stitch boo-oooook arts

A fun holiday book full of Halloween images. The 2 signatures are bound into the book with orange cube beads. Booooooo!

Raspberry Jammin

This is a 2-drop peyote base bracelet with netting on the outside of seed beads and fire polish beads. It closes with a magnetic slider.

Beaded Calendar dolls

Here is my year long commitment to create one doll per month. Each doll is 3" tall and have been mounted on a wooded block. What a great time I had with this challenge.

Beaded Journal Project

This is a portion of my completed year long commitment to Robin Atkins, Bead Embroidery Artist. I beaded one butterfly per month and assembled all into one bound book. I used Coptic stitch to bind the butterflies together. On the outside cover is a metal butterfly.

Beaded bracelet

Doozy of a Druzy. The focal bead is an enhanced Druzy Crystal. I've used peyote stitch around the Druzy. Snaps are hidden under the Druzy as the closure. The band is done in Delicas with a small strip of Delicas for accent.

Beaded Pendant

Leapin' Lizard. Bead Embroidered pendant using size 11 seed beads measures 4 inches in length. The focal beads include a marquis shaped blue topaz from my NY friend, Bunny and polymer clay "lizard tail" made by Linda Roberts of San Diego. I love the complex design Linda achieved in the tail. Thank you Bunny & Linda for the inspiration!

Book arts

Herringbone Stitched book. See the ways the threads cross, hence the name of the stitch.