Name Bead Bracelet 4 Description This is one of a series of bracelets that I created while at North Ranch, the Arizona Escapees Park near Congress. The gals there were very much a part of my entry into the world of beading. Each was based on a ‘beginner’ pattern provided to me, and then embellished or reworked to make it more ‘my own’. I’m not known for being a great ‘pattern follower’! This group of...

  Name Bead Bracelet 3 Description This is one of a series of bracelets that I created while at North Ranch, the Arizona Escapees Park near Congress. The gals there were very much a part of my entry into the world of beading. Each was based on a ‘beginner’ pattern provided to me, and then embellished or reworked to make it more ‘my own’. I’m not known for being a great ‘pattern follower’! This...

  Name Bead Bracelet 2 Description This is one of a series of bracelets that I created while at North Ranch, the Arizona Escapees Park near Congress. The gals there were very much a part of my entry into the world of beading. Each was based on a ‘beginner’ pattern provided to me, and then embellished or reworked to make it more ‘my own’. I’m not known for being a great ‘pattern follower’! This...

  Name Bead Bracelet 1 Description This is one of a series of bracelets that I created while at North Ranch, the Arizona Escapees Park near Congress.  The gals there were very much a part of my entry into the world of beading.  Each was based on a ‘beginner’ pattern provided to me, and then embellished or reworked to make it more ‘my own’.  I’m not known for being a great ‘pattern follower’!  This...

  Name Bone/Horn Bead Necklace and Earrings 7 Description This bone/horn bead necklace and earring set has found it’s way into a private collection as a memento of our joint travel time. It’s hard to see in the photo but it incorporates some dried prune (?) stones from a vintage necklace.  I love the medallion on this one! Size Approximately 25″ or 63 cm plus 2″ or 5cm pendant and dangles. Status In a private...

  Name Bone/Horn Bead Necklace and Earrings 6 Description Time to switch my colour-way.  This time using black and natural coloured bone/horn beads with metallic spacers for accent.  This one also has a wire-wrapped rock medallion with memories of working in my ‘outdoor studio’ At Painted Rocks State Park in Arizona. Size Approximately 25.5″ or 64 cm plus 2″ or 5cm pendant and dangles. Status In the artist’s...

  Name Bone/Horn Bead Necklace and Earrings 5 Description Once again going with the red/natural colour combo.  I spent a couple of days sorting the shapes and sizes of beads into a box with compartments before starting these pieces.  I’m glad I did because I would never have found this combo without that sort.  In the pendant I included a wire-wrapped rock that I picked up on our campsite, while working in my ‘outdoor...

  Name Bone/Bead Wire-Wrap Bracelet Description I spent a wonderful sultry summer afternoon playing with this piece.  Again using beads from my Quartzsite, AZ  find, I used copper wire to weave a base for the bracelet and then to join wire-wrapped beads and dangles.  I ultimately decided the structure was too fragile for a bracelet and incorporated this piece into a necklace where it becomes the feature. Size Approximately 24″  or 61...

  Name Bone/Horn Bead and Wire-wrapped Necklace and Earrings 3 Description Now this piece I love!  The feature section of this necklace is a rework of the Wire Wrap Bracelet also posted.  I am again using items from the several bags of bone/horn pieces found at the Quartzsite jewelry mart.  Copper wire-wrapping complements the beads in the central accent portion.  The clasp and ear-wires on matching earrings are also copper. Size...

  Name Bone/Horn Bead Necklace and Earrings 2 Description Another set for my life in blue jeans. I love jewelry that is earthy enough to be worn with ultra-casual clothes. Once again the bags of bone/horn pieces found at the Quartzsite jewelry mart are featured. In this piece I recycled spacers from a vintage necklace and combined lengths of the bone/horn beads interspersed with additional round beads and spacers.  The inscribed pendant is...