Work Table Wednesday

 Wow and it is Wednesday.  Sorry I have been absent.  I have been working though.  I had a request from a good customer for a row counter bracelet that had the copper feel and clasp.  So many of my beads go with copper because I love it so, but for more than a week I couldn't find my copper mojo.  I reverted back to turquoise and brown always a good combo and found a few.  One of which the customer liked and ordered.  The other three are headed off to Hopkins, MN with me on Friday for the Bead Bazaar.  The show is both Saturday and Sunday and is in a great open gym at the Eisenhower Community Center.  Check the link for more info and come visit me.

I also have been giving myself a day off every weekend we are home and last weekend was playing with paint.  I did some giant sheets of paper very much like this small piece that are for another project.  This was a postcard that I have already mailed.  I really had lots of fun making layers and layers of paint. 

Work Table Wednesday

 

I made a necklace similar to this one back in June of 2012.  You can see it here.

 I really liked the texture and how it sat just below the collar bone.  So the other day I decided to make something just about like it but of course had to make some beads first.  I just got it all finished up.

 I of course made a pair of earrings to go with it.  I so love the red and black and for some reason these earrings feel sort of Oriental to me.

Work Table Wednesday

 Here are some new lentil beads that I have made this last week.  These are the ones that were still laying on the kitchen counter today. Sometimes my work table is all over the house. (I dry the new beads on the kitchen counter after cleaning them.)   I have been making a bunch of these big lentils for my upcoming shows which I can not believe start in less than a month. 

I think this one is my favorite out of this latest batch.  I always seem to have a thing for red and black.  I wanted to show you just how big they are so you also get to see my wrinkly pink hand.

Work Table Wednesday

I have been trying to get ready for my first show of the year.  It is not until next month in DesMoines, but the days go so fast that I am sure it will be here before I know what happened.  These are some new bumpy disk beads that I have carded up like buttons.

I really like this set with all the bright colors.  I could just see these down the front of a black sweater.  You can really see the bright yellow bumps in this picture.

From the wreckage of my table in the last week I have been able to get a few more row counter bracelets finished as well.  Stitches South in April is also coming up very quickly.

Work Table Wednesday

 I truly hate to show you what my work table looks like.  I realized yesterday that I was once again working on just a tiny little spot on my table.  I swear I do not know how it has gotten so messed up once again.  I try and try to keep stuff put away and still this is how it looks.  Today instead of cleaning it up like I should have I spent the day in the studio making more beads.  Really trying to get my trays filled before February.

 These are some of my poppy flowers made with the new metallic glass.  I just love the colors that come out when you play with it a little.

I think it looks so much like Raku pottery.

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...............Saturday.  I have to say that there was nothing much on my work table all week but I have been working.  Making lots of beads.  I have to get this pile tied into sets and packaged for kits.  There is a bunch still wet because there was no place to dump them out on the towel yesterday. 

It has turned very nasty here. We had our first real snow for the winter last weekend and this weekend it seems to be raining ice.  Such lovely weather. 

Work Table Wednesday

 I have to tell you that my table has gotten a little messy again.  I am still trying to organize my stuff, one so I can find it, but more importantly so I can put it away.  It was so nice when I wanted peanut beads to know right were they were, even though I now have two boxes of shaped seed beads. 

I made these two little necklaces to show off my new leaf sets.  I also got a kiln full of beads made so it was a pretty productive day.

Work Table Wednesday

 WOW!!!!! Work table Wednesday was a lot of work.  I finally managed to clean up the mess which you can see here.  Yes there are a few bowls of stuff to either put away or finish but at least I have a few more inches of space to work.

The table did not stay that clean for long as I started working on Stitch markers.  I made several sets and my fingers and hands are worn out.  Tomorrow I get to put them all on cards.  I love that part.