Posted August 9th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
T-minus 5 days. We bridesmaids are wearing black dresses, and since the colors are raspberry & lime green, we’re wearing green shoes. My shoes are actually David’s Bridal honeydew color. (David’s Bridal blows, by the way.) So what about earrings? I made ‘em! I wanted to have green earrings to match the shoes and the [...]
Tags: beading, I work for a living, jewelry, wedding
Posted July 7th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
There are a LOT of beading magazines out there. And at one point I was buying every single one. That presented a storage problem here in my bento box sized apartment, so I had to take drastic measures. Those drastic measures included buying a lime green binder and a bunch of plastic page protectors. Now [...]
Tags: beading
Posted June 19th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
Boy do I have the jewelry bug again. Armed with my spools of non-tarnish wire and the drawers-full of beads (seriously, this is bad and out of control) I went on a bit of an earring binge… You can tell I like these because I photographed them all pretty-like, bamboo plant and all. If you’re [...]
Posted June 13th, 2010 by Kimberly Dowd
Yesterday afternoon I was sitting at my desk, WM and the dogs were passed out in a pile on the sofa, and it was really, really quiet. I was torturing myself with a work-related decision and needed a distraction. So I pulled out a beading magazine and my stash’o’beads. I altered a pair of earrings [...]
Tags: beading, ollie, wireworking