Beadery.

[kiya]

I had this idea that I've been working on, and it was eating up enough memory that even my text processing was getting glitchy. So I had to do it, and teinedreugan and I went to Beadworks and got supplies for it today. (We also went to Sears and bought a new stove. Yay stove! Probably more on that later.)

Anyway. The thing isn't done (as you can see from the picture by the way the wires aren't cut off and crimped) because some of my little orange beads refused to be threaded through by both halves of the wire. After some discussion with elisem (courtesy gwynyth) about the health and sanity of trying to drill larger holes in the beads, I've decided that I'll go back to Beadworks at some point and pick up some more that will thread, and redo the last 2/7ths of it. But I wanted to see what it'd look like done (and how long it would be), so I finished it off. Also this means that my second crimp bead won't run away from me and hide.

Primary materials: frosted glass, turquoise, and oyster shell. Design partially inspired by this piece and partly by a discussion of prayer beads on KOL.

Comments

[keshwyn]

Stove! Oo, oo, stove! ENVY stove. :) New stove good. Yumyumstove. :)

(Pretty jewelry too, but I don't wear jewelry nearly as often as I use a stove, so I know where my priorities are. ;)

[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

Yay stove! I love Sears. The day I bought my new stove there I also got some underwear. There aren't many stores where you can buy both.

The beading thing is very pretty. (Bad orange beads!)

[suzanne.livejournal.com]

Beautiful work dearheart!

And a bad case of stove envy over here too.

suzi

[baratron.livejournal.com]

I don't remember there being a Sisters of Mercy song called Possession. Must be on the album I don't ever listen to... (It is, I just checked). I wonder how many Goth Points I lose for that? :D

Those orange beads are nice, it's a shame their holes weren't big enough. BTW, taking that photo with the flash has lost the colouring of the beads in the bottom of the photo. I know it was just a quick picture to show us what you'd been up to, but when you finish the work properly, you should photograph it in sunlight with the flash off, so we can admire it as it really looks :)

What do you do with your jewellery? Keep it for yourself, give it to special people, or sell it? 'Tis good. Mind you, I liked your painting of the Egyptian ox god as well, even though you said that was just a rough draft.

[erispope.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Stove envy - my oven doesn't work. :P