It was the end of a long day for Charlie. Having sat patiently while dressed in his Santa hat to have his photo taken with shoppers, he decided he needed a quick nap before heading home.
Here are more of the Onyx square frames each with a lampwork bead inside.
Here are a few large pendants. 
And a funky coral coloured glass made these fun beads which are accented with some silver glass. That is glass made with a very high silver content which makes it very reactive with other colours that contain a lot of metals.
This is so silky shine and really fun!
This is a bead I bought from Kim Fields. It is a really beautiful encased floral which was built up using multiple layers of transparent colours while layering the components of the vines, leaves, and finally the morning glory flowers! We learned to make this style of bead and I can't wait to get to the studio to try it again. I took the price tag off before I showed it to husband. Eek!
This is a gorgeous floral relief bead made by Kim with really fabulous branch cane.
Here is Kim pulling stamen cane. The gather was so huge, it pulled out to 10'. Wow!
Here is a sampling of some of her beads. I took lots of pictures for inspiration and bought one bead as a souvenier.
There was a lovely little ladybug in my ornamental grass....
and a porcupine in the apple tree!
I have more stuff to post but I must go to bed. Made more bracelets, more earrings, more pendants. Got to put on a good show for the ladies in the hometown. Leave tomorrow and hope I don't see snow when I come home.
I searched the internet to find chokers that had clasps small enough to slide a bead over. I found these! So simple and they show off the bead without a lot of fuss for all those who say "I don't like to wear fussy jewelry." Now you have no excuse. You can change the beads to suit your mood or your outfit or your bracelet or your earrings. Oh so many possibilities!
These turquoise tabs turned out quite nice. I have a nice barrel shaped bead that goes on a choker and matches this. I just don't have time to photograph everything. So use your imagination!
These are all focal beads on sterling silver chokers 16" prices vary from $50
Busy day, made earrings too, but still have more beads that want to be made into beautiful things too.
This turned out very nice. The frit I used was called 'aphrodisiac'. Hmmm, maybe that is why I made enough beads for 2 bracelets. The crystals are some colour called Ernite. I have no idea what that is but it accents some of the green blue bits in the beads.
I am getting slower... I need to make another 7 or 8 bracelets. Oy! This one turned out kinda nice!
I loved making these beads! Then I didn't know what to do with them. So here is a kinda offbeat bracelet that looks like a curious mix of beads and silver.
Here is 'a' bracelet and pendant. I have been working all day. Really. I made some cell phone charms and some earrings. Went for a walk and delivered more brochures for our sale. Very cold and windy. Glad to back inside where it is warm and the chair at my work bench is waiting.
