Ready For The Last Flowers Of Summer?

Ready or not, here they come.

This new choker has a new floral design that I'm trying out and really quite happy with. Entitled, "Summer's Last Flowers", it features two flowering plants with orange and blue flowers similar to forget-me-nots or hyacinths.

Swaying the last of the warm summer breezes, each plant has two last bunches of flowers showing their beauty in the last golden days.

The base bead in this choker is a very interesting ivory with mottled tans and dark lanes of color for that stone look.

As with all my chokers, its strung on a nylon coated steel cable with a magnetic clasp that holds the necklace quite securely since the clasp is interlocking barrels instead of the traditional magnetic clasp.

I'll be posting this lovely to my Etsy Shop tomorrow around lunch time (CST), so please check in to see more pictures of this piece.

I hope you're having a great night!

Please Don't Eat The Daisies

Creatively, this has been one of the best weekends in ages. I needed a weekend like this in the worst way, so I'm glad to have finally gotten it.

I had three successful torching sessions where I created a variety of items that I'm planning on taking up to Door County, a tourist resort in Wisconsin, with me next weekend. Hopefully, I can get my items into a shop up there.

Two of the items that I'm not taking to Door County with me are a pair of daisy focal beads that were commissioned for fan pulls by one of my returning customers.

While I've never done daisies before, I had an idea of how to do them. These beads are the results.

I will have more daisy and floral designs coming in the weeks ahead as I work to enhanc the pattern further and add my own spin to it.

My customer, however, loved the pictures I've sent her and that is always my goal--customer satisfaction.

More pictures of my new creations will be coming all week, so be sure to check back. Also take a peek at my Etsy Shop for wonderful items that are for sale!

Have a great day.

Were You An Early Or Late Bloomer?

Whether you were an early or late bloomer, hopefully you'll love these sculptural flower beads that I created.

They're a rather fun little experiment that I've entitled, "Early Bloomers" due to the fact that they have budded and bloomed while it is still quite wintery outside.

Each little bud sports a small stem piece on the top of the bead, and a lovely two-color flower on the bottom.  Inside each flower is a yellow stamen to give them a bit more realism.

The lovely reflective properties of the flowers is due to the natural lines the glass created while wrapping and shaping the flowers into their final designs.

Usually, beads like this have the holes running from the top of the bead out through the flower end, but the holes in these actually run horizontally through the flower's base.

As usual, I'll be posting this unique set of beads into my Etsy shop tomorrow morning.  I hope you can drop by for a visit once they're on full display.

The Wire Is Found, Culprit Masquerades As Tablecloth!

For those of you who've been wondering where my florist wire could possibly have gotten to from last night's posting, you can rest easy that the mystery has now been solved.

Just as I predicted, after good nights sleep and rational thought I decided to go back down to my studio and look again.  While moving the items around, as I had last night, proved to not turn up the wire, this time I rested my hand on the tablecloth that was folded  on the table.

"What's this?",  I thought as my hand rested on a lump in one of the folds on the fabric.  Sure enough, it was my wire that had somehow been shuffled under the tablecloth.

I was then able to finish stringing my newly made set of lentils and head off to work.  Crisis a

averted!

Rose Focal Coming To Etsy

The "Sunrise Merlot" bead that I featured here last night sold this morning after just a few hours in my Etsy shop.  I was so surprised that it sold so quickly, but very happy too.  I love it when something I post is popular and someone picks it up right away.  As an artist, it's just a terrific feeling.

For my next new posting in my shop, this lovely rose focal will be loaded up tomorrow morning.  It's brilliant red colors are prefect for your Valentine, while the green leaves add a very nice accent against the solid black background of this bicone.

The roses on this bead were created from custom canes of pastel and transparent red along with white striping to give the petals some distinction and depth.    It will certainly get noticed as a pendant or in necklace.

Until next time, have great night, and a perfect day tomorrow!