Have a wonderful weekend, everyone. I will be creating new beadwork, and beginning work on my sweaters for Nepal.

Two cuffs shipping out tomorrow. I don’t love production, but these two just flowed along easily.

Another beautiful iris from our garden, the stem snapped in the wind.

The garden is incredibly lush and vibrant this spring. Yesterday I bought 2 beautiful sable brushes. Such a pleasure with which to work.

Just finished this cuff. I have made some pieces like this in the past, but felt there were some technical kinks that I had to work out. This one wraps around the wrist 1 1/2 times, and the frame is made with a heavier gauge sterling silver wire than in the past. Rather than being…

Taking the cube shape into the next piece- eliminating color and pattern and focusing only on form and texture. These are very light- about 1.25″ below the ear wire. With sterling silver accents.

I can get a little obsessed with beads. I knew I wanted to come up with a recipe for a cube beaded bead but I didn’t know it would take days to get it right.  I made patterns using pencil and paper, then I switched to peyote stitch graph paper. Nothing worked as well as…

Enthusiastic and saturated snapdragons, asking to be painted in watercolor.