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.

Carrie's Cozies

 

As I post this I am hoping none of the gift recipients are following the blog!  Highly unlikely, I'd say.  Above we have a really cute gift idea: these little cozy covered jars are going to be made into smoothie sippy cups for kids.  Below are the cozies for the VOSS water bottle.  Fall colors camo with handle came out beautifully.  Thanks goes to Carrie for her creative and fun order.

Shaman Hat

Here is a very exciting hat that I have been wanting to make for a while.  It was originally inspired by the amazing hats worn by the indians in Peru.  They are brightly colored with peaks and tassles and earflaps and sometimes beaded- definately a lot of time goes into them and they are very special. They are often worn by guides and shamans.  This one was inspired by my friend who is a long time hat fancier and always picks out the cream of the crop.  This time he put in a request and here is the result.  He admired the yellow ribbon from the white earflap hat as seen in an earlier post.  This hat has neon orange and gold ribbon which is from Peru.  The other countries of origin for the materials are: Mexico, Brazil and Guatemala.  I could say much more about it but I will leave it at that. 

Below: I love how the metallic threads from Guatemala are on bamboo spools.

Winter Handwarmers

 Here is the newest batch of handwarmers.  Flowers and sparklies.  Solid dark blue and solid black for the guys.  Gold rings and rasta stripes.  

 Above: gold and silver made with metalic gold and silver thread in the flowers.  Below: yes, it is true, Valentine's day is coming up!  Those are with irradecent sparkly white flowers. 

Maasai-Inspired Beaded Loop Earrings

 These new earrings were inspired by the jewelry of the Maasai- a colorful people of Kenya, Africa.  The earrings are made with bronze cones and seed beads, some of which are striped wich is something I see often in African beads.  I aslo created a striped effect by alternating black and white beads.