End of March 2014, Some of my favorite beads so far :)

These pictures are of some beads that I took from sets that I made to make pendants.  I have more recently been working on making melted in flower beads and encased flower beads.  This is progressing well but I sure have made some mistakes, lol.  The good thing about mistakes is that we can learn from them.  I am currently working on making a batch of matching flower beads :).   Well, not matching beads so much as complimentary beads.  I don't like the look of all beads the same in a necklace so I make a batch with different beads using the same color scheme.  No matchy, matchy for me :)

I don't get to the torch for very long at a time and not every day so I wait until there are about 80 to 100 beads made before I fire up the kiln.  I only have about 20 made at the moment so it will be a while before I can post more pictures. 

Pendants don't have to be just one large piece.  I like to put two or more beads together to make one.

                                My favorite colors, orange and blue, in a three piece pendant

                                         Three beads I chose from a set, just for this pendant

                                   I like this one almost as much as the one pictured below.  See it used in
                                   a necklace in the second picture below.

                                   My favorite "so far" pair of beads.  See them below on a chain.

                                LOL don't pay attention to the date, my camera wasn't set right.  This necklace has a chain maille chain that I made.

                     Here are some charms I use for the pendant necklaces I made from my beads.

Some things I have made

Some of these are available on ebay.  Look for bellakjewelry.  More will be available soon.

                                                      
                          My favorite, I made the wire wrap on the pendant and the chain maille chain too
                          the chain pattern is called rosette.

 

Yeah I like this one too.  Purple is the color theme here.  I also made the chain maille here.  It is called eclipse. 

LOL  my first icicles,  not too bad for starters.  :)  It took a few before I got the hang of making the loop.  It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be.

And here is my first off mandrel pendant.  I decided to try it after I had learned how to make the loop while making the icicles. 

This is a lanyard I made for my daughter-in-law.  It still needs the clasp and a split ring at the bottom to hold her clip.  I used the eclipse chain maille chain here too.  I really like the way it turned out.