Posted October 6th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
Last week I was wearing one of my various sundry pieces of jewelry when a coworker called me over.
She was looking for a pair of short dangling blue-green earrings to match a top she had at home.
I could do that!
So I gave her my usual disclaimers:
I don’t work with precious metal
If they break I’ll fix [...]
Tags: crystals, earrings, wirework
Posted May 4th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
The lovely and talented Kristen had us for Easter Dinner back in April so I decided to make her a little hostess gift.
The brown beads appear to be painted shells. There are little moonstone beads in between them. I made the clasp myself with non-tarnish silver wire.
And I think LGB – LadyGypsy Beads – [...]
Tags: beading, wirework
Posted April 19th, 2009 by Kimberly Dowd
Even though I don’t blog about it all the time, I’m still messing around making jewelry. My creations have gone from strands of nothing but beads to wire links and beads and now it looks like I’m enamored with mostly wire.
I always wanted to make a wire wrapped pendant but never could figure it out. [...]
Tags: beading, wire, wirework
Posted September 21st, 2008 by Kimberly Dowd
Yesterday, WM and I spent the entire day cleaning up the bedroom. We washed every last scrap of clothing, sorted the piles, put the piles away, dusted, vacuumed, etc. Sometimes I get an urge to clean and I can’t stop it. Unfortunately, those urges are few and far between.
All of that work yesterday left me [...]
Tags: beading, jewelry, wirework