elegant black and purple lentil pressed mouse with silver bearing shards 15nov2019

A coral orange flower gives a bit of zing to this small pastel lentil mouse 14nov2019

black, olive green & white giftwrap on a zigzag striped box

1st in a series of 3 dead mice featuring green & black. 17apr2018

Transparent pink & cobalt blue floral mouse 20oct2016

blue gray mouse with malachite style shard 14oct2016

Gold fumed lentil made into a 4 strand tassel—a not quite dead mouse... 18oct2016

collects together all the posts about 2013 heart bead challenge. 11feb2016

Orange rosary 21jan2016

production from 23sep15: recent experiments, mostly with color. Also, reviewing old techniques. 25sep2015

Wirewrapped shell, with powder-cast glass beads from Africa. 07mar2016

Beaded embroidery in purples and blues and creams. 10sep2015

One in a series of beaded embroidered pieces made in, um, the mid 2010s? 09sep2015

2013 pix of my striped tree peony, with a side of wild ginger. 18may2013

Unfortunately I can't talk a whole lot about this gorgeous piece, because I didn't do most of the work—my synergy partner, Sharon Wagner, did. As with so many successful collaborations, she came up with the original concept, which was inspired by an art-deco themed building, which dictated both ...

aqua blue floral dead mouse with touches of yellow and orange 28sep2012

super sturdy dead mouse in blue and yellow 26sep2012

Though these beads were made earlier, this is the first post about them specifically . Originally posted 28jan09. 28jan2009

Though made (and photographed) in 2007, I didn't get around to posting these grey, red, and white gravity swirl beads till 2008. Originally posted 08dec08. 08dec2008

I make a macrame button bracelet. The end.

Stripies of check glass made in 1st quarter 2007, more or less. Originally posted 26aug07 29aug2007

Valentine hearts from 06 finally get posted in 2015. 01feb2015

Stripey beads . Now a subindex page including three sets of links— mini-stripeys ; howto pages ; and the original 03 stripeys ; created 29aug06 18oct2006

Mini-stripeys Orginally posted 09aug06. 08sep2006

Ah, orange and green ministripeys . Ruminations on a better stripey. First posted 09aug06 09aug2006

Satake stripeys , originally posted 07sep06 07sep2006

pink, purple and blue, and —oh yes— greyish ministripeys in which two light sources—cloud diffused sun and tungsten light—are compared for rendering true color. Originally posted 06sep06 06sep2006

This post covers a handsome series of stripeys in 5 colorways made (so far as I can tell) in 2003 and as a bonus includes my postcard from that year. 30aug2006

More mini-stripeys . Originally posted 27aug06 27aug2006

Stripeys to me are hollow round bead stripeys, but these beads do have the stripes built into the glass, so, technically, they qualify. Plus, some day I want to develop the theme further. So here they are, even though really this is mostly a post about teaching kids how to braid. Originally po...

Mini-curtain 11apr06 11apr2006

So these gravity swirl beads are striped, and they're even hollow, but the stripes are surface applied, as opposed to being part of the original construction. Part of a series (and also indexed as such) of beads in a variety of techniques made using a pastel bullseye palette. Originally posted...

Using fused strips/scrap to maked multi-colored (stripey) designer sized beads 09may2005