Fall 2016 Santa Cruz

 

I have many lovely soft and fuzzy warm beanies, organic cotton beanies, cotton dread hats, brimmed hats, and pom pom hats. Below: Shade your face!  A custom order for an orange and green beaded flower on a brown and beige cap.

 

Animal inspiration: Almendra

Coconut Earrings and Warm Beanies

Beaded earrings with polished coconut shell chips and bronze cones.  The colors are Marine Blue, Matte Beige, Light Olive Green 

 Three new beanies.  The two at left are made with vintage yarn and the one on the right is with 100% wool.  The wool smells sweetly and is thick and warm.

Harvest Time

A bouquet of glowing blooms! I made some of these pairs while traveling in India and Brazil, two very colorful places! Looking at them is like a color bath for the eyes.  They are radiant in the fall light.

This style reminds me of birds' wings. Beautiful color fades and symmetry.

These pairs are very elegant with the bronze and gold tones.  The two pairs to the left have a very Native American inspired pattern.  The pair at right is an African inspired design.

Fall Days

 

Above: This collection was inspired by a friend's request for a cream and gold color combination. What manifested were creations with bronze and gold cones and beads, natural coconut shell beads, facetted and metallic beads and of course turquoise and blues and greens. 

Below: A very different collection formed in response to an ever-popular trend: Hoops!  Made with African and Indigenous inspired color schemes and patterns, these earrings are light weight and of all sizes. 

 

Above: A display of a variety of different beanies which I felt all had a common fall theme.

Below: Sunset time in Santa Cruz

Above: A beaded necklace composed of five beaded flower mandalas.  My very first necklace of this kind.

Star Mandala Caps

 

Red, Green and Gold

 

Blue Fade

Stars and Flowers Beaded Earrings

 

My lovely friend Jamuna wearing her new purple beanie and purple and green earrings.  There is a close-up photo of this pair below.

 

My lovely friend Christina wearing the dream-catcher pattern earrings in beige, turquoise, chartruese, bronze and black.  

 

This style of earring combines the peyote flower pattern with the smaller star pattern at the top and loops with bugle beads.  The inspiration for these came from Christina who is also a bead artist. There are turquoise stones in the pair at the bottom right.  Jamuna's pair is at the bottom center.  

Cali Love

Half Dome, Yosemite

Summertime hats

Pastel beads

Sunshine and fog in the trees at Point Reyes, CA

Green peacock beaded earrings displayed with coral and moss

Family with organic cotton bear ears baby hat, Santa Cruz, CA

Flower crown 

Sunburst dreamcatchers

Tropical Beads

Pirate Morgan's Head on Providence Island, Colombia

Turquoise beaded earrings with bronze beads and red coral

Wax palms, the tallest palms in the world, near Salento, Colombia

Leilani and I in Miami, Florida

Green dreamcatchers

Mural in Cartegena, Colombia

Earrings made with red and black seeds for good luck and protection

Beaded Sunshine

Above: These are long and slender and light-weight, 6 inches long  Friends and family have made up cool names for the new colors of beads I am working with: river rock and swamp water are two.

Below: These sunnies are made with the African stripe beads and a warm beige color that I like. 

Above: These pairs both have the warm beige and the orange stripers.  They are smaller and shorter- 4 inches long.  The pair at left was a very "me" pair, and very "southwest" at right. 

Below is a pair with navy blue and long red sparkly bugles.

Lucid Dreaming White and Monkstone Earrings

Here are two sets of earrings.  The first set is with what I am calling lucid dreaming white because the beads have a beautiful luminance.  They also have the striped African beads and the second pair has bronze colored beads. 

The next set, also just two pairs, is made with monkstone beads.  This sparkly brown stone is more widely known as goldstone.  These earrings have an Egyptian inspiration.