I have made a few beads this week and have put them up in my journal (Lampwork Journey section)  but I really cannot make any jewellery from my beads yet (unless they are for myself or my children) because they’re not annealed.  I don’t have a kiln yet and haven’t arranged to have any of [...]

Another one of Lynette Owen’s dichroic cabs,.. I think I’m addicted to dichroics,lol. This cab is mine,..all mine!!  Can you see it’s a scarab beetle?  I wanted to keep this setting as clean as possible to keep the scarab design.  I wrapped it a little unconventionally,. the prongs, like little beetle’y legs,lol and the bail [...]

I  snapped up a couple of  dichroic cabs recently, that I found on Lynette Owen’s website,. I just couldn’t help it,… they were calling out my name :} .   I wanted to play around with some different ways of wrapping too so these cabs were perfect for providing the  inspiration. 

This cabochon has way more purple [...]

This week I made a fun piece to display a pretty bead that I found in my stash.

It was  made with an Ocean Jasper bead, square sterling silver wire, a few sterling silver beads and took about 30mins to think about what to do, then make it.