Woven Wire Bracelet

This is a bangle bracelet I wove with 2 colors of 18g artistic wire - this wire is dead soft, so it is very easy to weave with. And I love the brown and the blue together!

This is the hook and eye closure:

Fun bracelet! And it's available in my Etsy shop!

Waves on the Beach - a Handwoven Spiral

Sometimes you luck into the most stunning focal beads - like this one. Undulating waves of blues, whites, and browns, with bubbles, and sparkles in the browns - it instantly reminded me of turquoise waves lapping on a sun-kissed sandy beach!

I decided to create a beadwoven spiral rope to pull out the stunning colors in this glass bead. I used several colors and sizes of seed beads, some pinch beads, and some bronze freshwater pearls, and this is the result:

A peyote bail with a pinch bead ruffle acts as a slider for the lampwork focal.

This stunning, summery, beachy necklace is now available in my Etsy shop!

Starry Night now on Etsy

I completely forgot about this gorgeous set! Sad ... I need a personal assistant (with a cattle prod, probably) to keep me organized and to keep me on track!

The necklace and earrings are now in my Etsy shop!

I'm not sure why I have such a mental block when it comes to listing items on Etsy! I thought it was the whole photo process - but these were photographed and ready over 2 months ago, so that's not it. And Etsy did streamline the listing process down from that horrid 5 page listing mess we used to have to go through, but I still struggle when it comes to listing. Anyone else stuggle with this? How do you get over the listing hurdle?

I'm also curious how others deal with listing sets. I have found that it is easier for me to list the individual parts of a set separately (e.g. earrings in one listing, necklace in another, bracelet in another listing), so if a customer doesn't want the whole set, they can purchase only the pieces they want. What works for you?

A Pause for Nostalgia

This necklace is the very first piece of jewelry I ever made, back in April or May of 2007:



It was the second item I added to my Etsy shop, way back in November, 2007.

A lovely customer just came into my bead shop, and fell in love with it, and bought it - and I'm delighted it has a good home after all this time, but a little sad, it a funny way - it was my first!