Beadwork Jewelry Articles

Spring and Summer Fashion Colors for 2007 reveals the colors that designers will be showing come the Spring thaw. They are a direct evolution of this past seasons colors, favoring neutrals as well as the strong subtleties of the teriary color groups.

Fall Fashion Colors for 2006 Each season brings new changes and choices of color. In this article I discuss the latest trends for the upcoming Autumn. Look forward to a wide variety of dark shades with deep rich colors.

Seed Bead Choices - The Right Bead for the Weave There are so many kinds of beads avaialble today that thinking about it could make your head spin! This first article looks at all the forms a seed bead can take from the very tiny 15/0 size that does indeed look a great deal like a tiny seed to the 4 mm sized 6/0 beads as well as faceted seed beads known as charlottes (and related beads), with a small side trip to briefly consider specialty beads often associated with seed beads, such as bugle beads, triangle beads, magatamas and more. These are where I start. A short tour of my Beaded Jewelry Gallery will give many examples of the imaginative and expert use of seed beads and their relations in fine art beadwork.

Grape Earrings uses a variety of seed beads, tube beads and Swarovski bicones in multiple groups of leaf and branched fringe stitch. The focal beads are Czech faceted firepolished beads.