December BJP 2010

The final two projects for Bead Journal Project 2010. For this stone page (no. 8), I've added a bit of macrame. Scroll down and check it out ---- this macrame is done with sewing thread.

Behind the center opening of the stone donut I placed a piece of copper colored paper.

The 12th spiral done up for the holiday.

November Spiral

For November, I've used the rich gold of the season. The central core beads are triangles with hex cut gold for the outer bead.

These hex beads are the tiniest little things.

My previous blog post is the 11th beaded page of the year.

Spirals and Stone Page No. 7

10/10/10 - great date!

Here is August - I was still thinking of ocean colors.

September - inspiration was the leaves turning yellow.

October - now the leaves are oranges, red and browns.

Stone Page No. 7 - the featured "stones" are two pieces of beach glass - most probably beer bottle glass. For this piece I wired the glass in place with 24 ga. brass wire.

July spiral

A holiday spiral celebrating America's Independence Day

June spiral

The June spiral has shades of blue and green, reminiscent of the sea.

May

This is the May spiral ---- more colorful than the April spiral to reflect the colors of the flowers now found in bloom.

April Spiral

This is my April spiral - all green and soft pink.

March Spiral

Trying to photograph these spirals is not fun. For March I used five shades of yellow/green, Delica beads for the spiral part and seed beads for the core.

project notes - January

For the January spiral -

size 6 core beads - AB crystal with a 3 core stack

beading sequence is twice through each stack

*first pass - 6 size 11 seed beads
second pass - 1 size 11 seed bead, 1 AB 4mm crystal, 2 size 11 seed beads*

add a core bead and continue with beading sequence * to *

When viewed from the top end looking down, the spiral is full and round.