Mewkittie Creations

I only finished one bracelet for this photo shoot.

These are terra aqua jasper beads. They have a real organic look to them in a green tint. I kind of like them except the green part.

I need to start moving on to another project. I finally found out what color badge holder a gal in my mom’s quilting class wants so I started making beads last night. I’m going to try to make several so I can have some to sell at the craft show.

Opal Yellow with enamel powders and purple stringer.

Yeah, I should have made sure my beads were clean before taking a picture of them. These are in the colors the gal wants. I’ll probably use these for her badge holder.

I was trying to get more organic. It’s tough for me. I don’t do organic well. I saw some of Jewlie’s beads and thought they looked awesome. I tried to do the same thing, not as successfully as her beads are though….

I have to stop soon. I’m not getting anything else done except bracelets. I need to start designing new things for the next craft show.

A couple more double wraps in rose quartz and unikate.

These use tree jasper gemstones.

I sold my first ladder bracelet yesterday!! I didn’t even get to take a picture of it. I took them to my glass club meeting for show and tell and a gal wanted to buy one. Yeah!!

Here are three more I finished up.

I’m really liking the pearl ones, though I did breakdown and buy some different gemstones to use.

Buttons!! I’m trying to build up my button stock for the bracelets. I like having an assortment to choose from.

Donna that owns the glass shop called The Mandrel made some beads on opal yellow colored glass with purple stringer work on it. Opal yellow is notorious for fine details spreading all over the place. I asked her how she got the lines so crisp. She uses powdered raku on them. I gave it a shot last night. These all have different colors of purple on them and some work better than others. The right one really isn’t purple, it’s lapis with a purple cast to it. While it didn’t spread out, it didn’t react with the raku.

When I can’t do stringer work – sometimes I’m just off during a torch session, I like to make these striped cab buttons. A couple of these have silver glass in them but it’s hard to tell. I can’t seem to do anything with silver glasses.

These are miscellaneous ones to try out some new colors of glass I got.

As you all know already, I don’t make just one of anything. So, here’s two more leather bracelets. I think these are some low grade charite gemstone beads. One of them I used Fireline to secure the beads in place and the other one I used C-Lon which ended up not being any easier. I could barely pass the thread through the beads and the thread is so wiry, it gets messed up easily.

The C-Lon thread gives a more decorative edge. I made the buttons to go with them.