These beads almost look good enough to eat. Cherry quartz comes in a variety of color intensities—and most of the time the beads that I see are lighter in color. I like to work with intense colors, and this new bracelet (featuring a sterling silver fish) is a good example. I wish I had bought several strands, but…oh well. Now I need to think about a matching necklace.

I actually fused these pieces together about a month ago, but didn’t get around to doing anything more with them until today. I used sterling silver to create a unique wire wrap for each one.  These are listed in Etsy and in my store.

I’m not sure that this is exactly the same pattern as the piece I showed yesterday, but it is close (and from the same batch). I had fused it on top of a black base.

You can barely see any dichroic coating…it all burned off.

 I didn’t complain to the seller, just decided to stick with my usual sources from now on. Dichroic glass is too expensive to be throwing out….

I found these really pretty fossilized coral beads about 2 months ago, and have been just letting them sit around on my beading table until I had some sort of idea. This morning I decided to use copper wire, some small copper beads, and Swarovski crystals and came up with this design. I think I will also do another one, with a different design, using silver wire.  This piece is also in my store.

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From time to time I make canes out of polymer clay, and have made some pretty interesting beads. However, when I saw these pink and black beads in a store, I just had to buy them and make a bracelet. This piece also contains Swarovski crystals and Swarovski squaredelles, as well as sterling silver beads with pink enamel.

What usually happens is that I make a really  nice flower, and then ruin it while trying to encase it.

Here are a couple that aren’t too bad. The one on the right isn’t really a flower, but more like a garden..