Mewkittie Creations

For a custom order…..

And a couple of shank buttons…..

Few more beads and a button…

Two new sets…..This set has five hollow beads, used transparent enamel on them and boiled it a bit to give them a rustic look. The first time I made these I used different glass and all the beads came out of the kiln cracked due to incompatibility between the glass and enamels. Oops.

This was the set that had all the cracked hollow but I made enough extra beads and added some that I made previously for this set. It’s also got a shank button.

More beads and buttons…..

Not sure what direction I was going in last night. Made more leaves…..

Then decided to try to make a round two hole button. They are tricky as they glass is wrapped around the two prongs which ends up being oval. Building up glass on each side and melting it in makes it move to places where it’s not supposed to be. Here’s my attempts:

Still need some practice on the buttons. Then I ended up with a bunch of short rods of glass on my table. I decided to make simple drop beads.

Might make more of these, they are kind of fun and hopefully people will like them at the bead show.

The last thing I made was a little kitty:

Course, I plan to make more of these in different colors for the bead show.

Yep, more beads.

And some buttons that I’m really rusty at making. I’m going to have to put in more practice time on these. What’s nice about making buttons is I don’t have to clean bead holes in the morning.