New Etched Flower beads

While we were in Tucson I had the necklace I showed off a few months ago on display (You can see it here : http://tanyamcguire.blogspot.com/2015/01/a-new-necklace.html ). everyone wanted to know where those flowers were and I had used them pretty much all up for the necklace so I decided I had better get a batch made for the spring shows. Lots of nice soft etched colors.

A New Necklace...

...for your viewing pleasure.  This one has been in the works for quite a while, but while I have been making beads like a crazy woman I decided to spend some time finishing up a couple of projects, this being one of them.

I have decided to call it "Seaside Dreams" because every time I look at it I see the ocean.  The flower beads have been etched to resemble sea glass and the little tendrils so make me think of strands of seaweed.

Jewel tone Daisy's

 Lovely, lovely jewel tone daisy's.  I have made these before but not in quite a while and I just had to get a few in my boxes. I love the watery feel of the transparent glass in these colors.

 I made mini ones this time too which I have to make more of because I just love the dainty little things.

 And some earring pairs for Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/tanyamcguire?ref=si_shop

 Of course the mixed sets are my favorite.

And I just had to show off this picture because I like the picture.

A Variation.........

 ..........in color from the other day.  I for some reason have fall on my mind.  I know it is hot outside and that we are even having heat warnings because of the heat and humidity. (Amazing cold in the winter and hot in the summer.  There is no place like South Dakota.)

 I just have fall colors in my mind so I had to make up just a few of my favorite fall color combo into flowers.  I think they look like mums in this color. 

I will of course be listing some of them on Etsy, https://www.etsy.com/shop/tanyamcguire?ref=si_shop

Purple Rain...........

............no but lots of pretty purple flowers.  I have been busy making up some sets for my next few shows and of course a few for ............

 ...........my Etsy shop.  https://www.etsy.com/shop/tanyamcguire 

I of course had to make a couple of the double ones.  I just love the 3-D effect when you stack one of my smaller flowers on top of one of the larger ones.  As for rain a little of that might be nice right now because it might just cool it off a little.

Summer Daisy's

Some new daisy's today some are headed to Omaha with me tomorrow to the Smiling Turtle Art Spot https://www.facebook.com/events/1437467813177923/

and some are headed to my Etsy Store. https://www.etsy.com/shop/tanyamcguire?ref=si_shop

Make sure to read the information on the front Page of my Etsy store because I am having a little DELAYEDSHIPPING sale.

And there are some close up photos on my Facebook page if you would like to see them. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tanya-McGuire-Beads-and-Jewelry/252035638176882?ref=hl&ref_type=bookmark

Fiesta Daisy's

While on Facebook the other day Barbara Armstrong suggested that the poppy bead picture I had posted reminded her of Fiesta Daisy's.

I of course had to make some.  I just love how they came out and love the red and yellow together.  Maybe next week I will make something besides flower beads, but I do have so much fun making them it is hard to stop.

Poppies and Sunflowers

I have been working this last week on a big batch of poppies and sunflowers.  Some for Etsy and some to take to the trunk show at the Smiling Turtle Art Spot.

Flower necklaces for spring.

 As always I had projects planned out long before they got made. This necklace has been planned since last fall and finally got finished last month. 

 I am at least ready for spring with a couple of new flower pieces.

 This is a fun one with a bright lime green and steel blue.  A color combo I want to play more with when we get back from Tucson I think some beads in this combo are in order.

 This second piece is in soft purples.  I am playing with a new background and am not sure I really like it with this piece.

 The background does however make for nice close ups.

This is one of my double layer flowers for the focal piece.

I won an award.

In September when we were at the Sidewalk Art Festival in Sioux Falls South Dakota I won an award for this piece.  It is called "Jabberwocky" and is part of my Alice's Garden Series.

The award was just an Honorable Mention but it made me feel great because there are about 125 artists and not that many awards.  Each artist is only allowed to enter one piece and I always seem to be scrambling to decide which piece to enter.  This year I had no problem deciding.  Hands down this was it. 

I have to also say that this piece found a new home while we were at the show in DesMoines IA last month.  A fabulous customer fell in love with it and I am sure she will have fun wearing it. 

Sorry that I haven't found time to tell you all this news before, we have just been busy, busy.  Now I get to think about what I might work on next.  What the new big piece will be. 

I'm in love........

 ..........with this new piece of jewelry.  It is one of those pieces where I had been working on something else and there were parts of things laying about on my work table.  They just called to be put together into a new necklace.

 This piece also came out with those great colors of copper and a patina. 

 I of course had to make a couple pair of earrings to go with the necklaces.

This pair also goes with a new statement necklace I showed you last week.
I want to remind everyone that there are only a few more days to get entered for the Free Bead drawing.  Check out the post here so you know all the ways you can enter.

A new Flower Necklace

 A couple of weeks ago at a show a good customer made the comment that many of my new pieces of jewelry were in the bright family of colors.  Boy is she right, however I had this piece started at the time and couldn't even show her. 

 I have been missing the copper and earth tones that I have always loved to work with but I guess have been having so much fun with the bright colors I didn't realize it until she mentioned it. 

 This color combination in glass is one I have loved for a long time I had just never used it on flowers until recently.  The amber glass looks like copper with the hints of green patina color caused but the frit.

Of course I had to make a little pair of earrings to go with the necklace.  They are the same as the little dangle on the extension chain in the back of the necklace.

Alice's Garden Flowers

 This is a new one of my Alice's Garden series of flowers.  They are in two pieces so they are really 3 dimensional.  I have been making jewelry with them for a bit.  Check out my posts here and here.

I have just really started listing them on Etsy though.  This one just got listed this evening.