Saturday, September 4, 2010

Reunion Rose


I have some of my pieces on display at Renningers Antique Mall in Mt. Dora, Florida not far from here in Orlando. My friend Patti and her husband have a shop there. She loves my work so she set up a display of it. This has generated some great custom orders for me. This one here was for a lady who was going to her 40th class reunion (I think she said 40th), anyway she told me she was wearing a very simple black outfit and wanted a floral design in Red & Black. Here is what we came up with. The neck strap has siam 4 mm crystals in it, the large flower has a red/purple rivoli I also used crystals for the center fringe, she really loved it and I hope you do too. The picture is kind of dark as I took it while I was in the hospital, I hope you can get an idea of what it looked like. With my son's help I got it photographed and in the mail so she would have it on time.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Thank Heaven for Flowers




Here a couple more necklaces I've made lately...I was very blessed with one of them..the Floral
Trellis piece. I finished it on a Wednesday and sold it on Thursday. The first person I showed it to fell in love with it and had to have it..Thanks Patti!
The first one is done in a new color of bead I just ordered and I fell in love with it. It is kind of a watermelon shade but because of the SB finish it has a peachy pink cast to it. I used glass pearls for the flower centers and made the leaves out of a coppery color bead.