The adorable Little Bee Bookshop, owned by the equally adorable Debra Rivera, is now open at 40 Main Street in Ayer. I am honored to have some of my pendants there for sale!
The focal piece of this necklace is my one of my very favorite metal artists, Jennifer West of Off the Grid Designs. I just love how this one came out!
This pendant has found its forever home, but I have others that are similar! Contact me to adopt one of my pendants The focal is by Shari Smith McDermott, and the little raku bead is by Amy Mealey.
This is one of my favorite pieces. I made it years ago, and it was inspired by my Mother, who has the greenest of green thumbs I've ever known! I wrote a tutorial to show you the basic steps of how it was conceived and put together. It combines bead embroidery, beadweaving, and a little bit of stringing.
The Peaceful Fox and The Ghost of the Forest have found their forever home! I know they will be well cared for. Please contact me if you are interested in adopting a different pendant <3
The idea for this piece started to form in my mind when my husband became involved in restoring an antique player piano. The keys called to me in ways that I couldn't explain. I cried when I thought about the elephants that had been destroyed to make these objects of beauty. My tribute to those majestic animals is to prevent some of those keys from ending up in a landfill.
Note ~ The only ivory that it is currently legal to use in the United States is either ancient fossilized ivory, or old recycled ivory like these keys.
In making Gaea Emerging, I developed a two-layered solution to the problem of stitched-on embellishments getting lost in the texture of the wool roving when felted wool is used as a background. The centerpiece of Gaea Emerging is a CopprClay pendant that I made, fired, and patinated. The organic feel of the piece led to the name.
An antique purse that was well beyond repair provided the steel-cut beads and the chain used for the closure of this recycled bead embroidered necklace. All of the black beads, from the fringe to the smallest glass charlottes are recycled antiques as well. The steel buttons have been attached in such a way that their shanks have been preserved.
My daughter pointed out to me that this piece uses several very primitive symbols, like concentric circles and jagged lines, which often represent watering holes and the rivers that connect them. So I picked Orinoco Flow as the name. It has turquoise, amazonite, and pearls, and gold wire along with the glass beads.
If you'd like to see a couple of process shots, visit the link!
Are they flowers or are they sea creatures? Maybe they are both, as the name suggests! Made from sugilite, charoite, Swarovski crystals, seed beads, and pearls.
If you'd like to see all my process shots, visit the link!
"It's midnight at the oasis, send your camel to bed," sang the incomparable Maria Muldaur. My friends and I used to howl with laughter as we sang along! Now I find myself nostalgic for the song if you can believe it.
This bead embroidery necklace uses complicated clusters of graduated stacks of seed beads to create the texture. The photograph just doesn't show how dimensional it is.
If you'd like to see all my process shots, there's a three-part post on my blog that starts at the link.
Hello friends! I haven't had time to work on new pieces since I'm still running a food pantry and hot meals program during the Time of Covid. So I thought I'd take a bit of a trip down memory lane and share some of my older pieces again. I hope you don't mind.
This one is called Phoebe. She is named for Saturn's ice moon, which was in turn named for a Titan of Greek mythology.