Here is another bracelet made with 3mm CreamRose Swarovski Pearls, 4mm Rose Bicone Crystals, #11 & #15 seed beads, and 4mm cube beads. It is similar to one I posted before Christmas, only wider – with 1 extra row of crystals &1 extra row of pearls.






Closeup

This is another bracelet I made for Christmas – this one for my sister Karen.


It is made with #8 seedbeads, #11 seedbeads, 4mm Swarovski Pearls, 4mm round Swarovski Crystals, and 4mm Czech FirePolish Beads.

This is a newly completed Right Angle Weave Bracelet with matching earrings. I used 4mm Grey South Sea Shell Pearls (& 1- 8mm for clasp), #15 Silver Seedbeads, and Swarovski Silver Shade 3mm bicone crystals.

It’s the Friday before Christmas, and it’s snowing outside. The perfect time to write up the directions for the Two-Tone Snowflake Ornaments I posted a couple of weeks ago.

Bright White Snowflake with Pale Pink	Bright White Snowflake with Pale Blue

These ornaments aren’t your traditional light, airy, snowflakes. I wanted the ornaments to be extra durable so they could survive the attention of both children and my 3 cats who love pulling things out of the Christmas Tree and hitting/chasing them all around the house. I came up with a very compact, sturdy design and decided to make them out of 1/4” paper to give them more weight. I also didn’t let the coils expand to full-size by placing them in the two smallest openings in the Lake City Design Board.

Directions:

Make the following pieces from 1/4” Bright White
6 – 5” Marquise
6 – 5” Teardrops
6 – 2.5” Heart Scrolls
1 – 1.25” Tight Roll

Make the following pieces from 1/4” using a very pale color for a two-tone snowflake, or you can use Bright White for plain snowflake.
6 – 11” Eccentric Teardrops

Glue the 6 marquise together to make snowflake center

Glue the small 5” Teardrops to the rounded tops of the Eccentric Teardrops

Put small amount of glue inside center crease of the heart scrolls and glue to the bottom of the Eccentric Teardrops

Pull each arm of the Heart Scroll up over the top of the Eccentric Teardrop to rest against side of the small teardrop – glue in place

Glue the Eccentric Teardrops between the marquise of snowflake center.

Glue the tight roll at top of one snowflake arm.

Thread a short piece of ornament string through the hole of the tight roll, tie a knot and you are ready to hang the ornament on your Christmas Tree.

Enjoy your ornaments and have a Merry Christmas!

Here are a few of the new Bracelets I recently completed

This first one is a wide stitched bracelet with 4mm Swarovski Pearls and 4mm crystals.

Here is a closeup:

This one is made with semi-precious gemstones stitched with 11/0 seedbeads in several different diamond patterns.

And a closeup

These ones are embellished Ladder Stitch bracelets

And a closeup: