This brand new piece was inspired while swimming my laps outside at the gym. I swim a mile once or twice a week. I thought about the simple cuff form, with a minimum of wire wrapping- focusing mostly on the beadwork. I wanted the beadwork to reflect tiny waves and ridges of water, in a…

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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…

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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…

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