Category: AIJ Designs

The International Watercolour Society of Canada  (IWS Canada) is hosting an amazing 5 day event called “A Symphony in Watercolour”, details can be found on their website IWSCanada.ca or in their brochure.

On behalf of the Richmond Hill Creative Eye, I created 4 bead woven crystal heart pendants because they symbolize the organization’s directives:
“peace, harmony, love, understanding and acceptance of each others’ differences”.

The pendants were beaded using clear Czech crystals (with an A/B coating) and silver Japanese seed beads and are being presented at the Boynton House in Richmond Green, Richmond Hill, 3:00pm, September 28th, 2018. Have a look at how President, Ona Kingdon has packaged these up – just beautiful!

Richmond Hill Studio Tour 2018 at Rouge Woods Community Center

This will be my first year in the town’s studio tour so visit me at the community center. I will be at the Rouge Woods Community Centre.

Here is the event information:
Saturday October 13th & Sunday October 14th – 10am to 5pm.

Rouge Woods Community Centre
110 Shirley Drive
Richmond Hill, ON
905-787-1441

I am hoping to have some new accessories and design including wired hair and fashion accessories, pins, brooches, hair combs and belts.

Working with Wire – Extreme winding & weaving!

I love the way these earrings turned out. The center crystal is a Swarovski pave bead in the shade of “gunmetal” and the copper core wire (in rose gold finish) works beautifully with it. I further punched the contrast by added more gunmetal in the findings.

Tons of coiling in this cute pendant made at the request of a college. Bare pure copper wire was used with aquamarine beads.

I know the aquamarine looks more green than blue, but it is closer to it’s natural state – not died and stabilized.
Here is a picture of natural aquamarine.

More bead weaving pieces for the month of May
These were made for a good friend from London England. I started with the pendant and finished with a pair of matching earrings. The set in Sterling was $125.

Inspirations from Colours In Nature

The warm sunshine blasting in my window will hopefully start to turn everything green, and everything beautiful that is ‘flora and fauna’. Here are some items that I made in time for Spring, St. Patrick’s Day and will hopefully make it into the hands of Moms all over come May.

Inspired by a beautiful butterfly

Full Spectrum of Tahitian Tones

Lush lavendars, pretty purples, beautiful burgundies, spectacular fresh water pearls in Tahitian colours (two shapes) using hematite wire. The Labradorite chips have a rainbow effervescence, Czech crystals are “trés-chic” with their “heliotrope” finish, all coming together to create a beautiful cluster necklace in a shorter “collar” length.

Lucky Irish chunk in emeralds

Twisted in more greenery

Turquoise & Bronze

A beautiful “Aztec” styled peyote bracelet, describe as “feels like fabric”. I love it when people enjoy wearing my jewellery!

Sapphires

Deep Ocean Tones of blues & grays

This is very tiny, but you can’t see how small the crystals are (they are 3mm). I used a sky blue 15mm seed bead to create the spiral using a sterling silver heart shaped clasp.

Bronze, Gold, Topaz and Olive – Finished Statement Jewelry Set

Tons of beads flowing all over the place, but its a great way to stay creative and finish the pieces I am designing and creating for entry (jury process) into various show for the 2018 season.  The show I have actually participated in so far are few, I attend more than I am in! I can’t help myself.

This years my designs will include two amazing metal work pieces of copper & silver in moonstone. These are pendants and I hope to have them ready in time for an April show.

Also on the table, tons and tons of bead weaving pieces with Czech Superduo and Swarovski beads. The sparkle from the Swarovski makes such an impact on these “statement” pieces.

Delicately woven into a beautiful necklace, this design contains lots of Swarovski crystals in bronzes, topaz and Silver Night colours and finishes.

It’s been a while since my last post,  website work has been keeping me too busy!

Here I am showing my latest adventures in beading! If you have seen my Facebook pages you will see my cluster crew necklaces that I have taking up my time. I enjoy making these necklaces because you can never tell what the end result will be. It is so easy to achieve a classy looking piece, great for formal, semi-formal or even business/office attire.

Here are some examples:

(Fresh water pearls, Black Quartz, Clear Quartz, rutilated Quartz, Onyx, tarnish resistant silver plated open link chain with toggle clasp)

(Different shapes and sizes of coral, Swarovski crystals, Czech crystals, Czech druks, on black wire hand-beaded with black toggle clasp)

Gorgeous Tahitian Pearl with rainbow labradorite, Swarovski crystals and much more!

Imagine the endless possibilities with this design! Want a multi-purpose necklace for that special occasion or the office? This is the perfect solution!