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Beads?

I started beading 10 years ago when I was a little 14 year old, hidden away in my bedroom with a bag of seed beads and a roll of elastic.
Lot of years later and after working 4 years in a bead shop I've mastered a few more techniques other than knowing how to tie elastic.

You may have guessed I like beads. Mostly because you can make what ever you want and choose which beads you want to use.
Lampwork are loverly beads, made by hand (not by me I don't have enough room for a kiln). My favourite lampwork beads are these flower ones here. They've been on this bracelet a couple of years so I think it's time they became something new.

Here's some of the earings I've made.

Earings are the easiest thing to make, easier than tieing elastic for certain.

My favourite earings are the purple star ones and the ladybird ones.

The ladybirds have a somewhat supprised expression along with 6 feet which I think is anatomically incorrect, but they're still cute (I have since been told/berrated by my fiance that they do have 6 legs, I apologise)

I love my blue goldstone necklaces, they are so sparkly. I think they look like the marbles that have galaxies in them...if you've never watched men in black you won't know what I mean

 I like my pearls to. I made this necklace for my graduation. They are little freshwater pearls with a teeeeeny tinnnny 3mm very light blue Swarovski crystal interspaced.

 I really like beadweaving as well, but it takes such a long time. The butterfly bracelet cuff was made using peyote stitch and each individual bead is sewn into the peice one at a time. Each bead is about 1mm. The close up gives and idea how small the beads are.