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In between some order-filling I managed to draw and cut some Italy beads. The finished product, featuring the Italian flag colors, are modeled by Jenny:

I snuck in the pattern in between some butterfly wings I was cutting.  Normally I’ll put the bead pattern next to the edge so I can drill the pin entry hole [...]

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I had a question about using beads and fretwork; thought there might others with the same question, so I’m putting the answer as a post.  The question was mainly about half-spheres glued to fretwork, but I’ll also broaden it to include other observations/research I’ve come up with.  One thing to remember is that I’m new [...]

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Today we spent pretty much the whole day experimenting with dog jewelry.  Got a Scottie show coming up, you know .  Anyway, lest start off with the 2″ Scottie.  We got some of the clear 1.8mm rhinestones, and used a cyanoacrylate glue to attach them to the walnut.  The stones look nice, but I [...]

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Just a quick post on the crosses. I did get a picture of them tonight; one has blue bicones, the second has green, and the third is the cross without any beads.  The crystals don’t show up too well; I may pass on crystal and go back to semi-precious beads like the malachite.  They seem [...]

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It took some contortions involving multiple computers, but I was able to get the picture of the cross with malachite beads onto the web server. I haven’t got the trick of getting walnut to show  up, well like walnut, in the pictures.  You can get the idea, though.
The cross is around 2″ long, so it [...]

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This is the next iteration of the Pendleton Horseshoe.  Pendleton’s colors are a dark green, so I added some 6mm bicone Swarovski cyrstal underneath each horse.  The color is a little off–the camera couldn’t find a white area to balance on, & I didn’t get my neutral card to manually set the white balance. You [...]

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Last night I had trouble sleeping, so I went into the computer, fired up Corel, and drew a weave pattern.  This pattern had two differences. First, the layers for each of the four sides would be cut individually, instead of cutting out a layer for all the sides at once.  This cuts down on the [...]

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Tonight I put together the first beaded tray with semi-precious gemstones in it. This is the second pattern I drew, reduced to 6″x3″ so it would fit the scrap of walnut I had. Also, this tray has a maple bottom. The maple was also scrap–I resawed the maple scrap and attempted a bookmatch [...]

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The beads from Znetshows arrived today.  Several 17-cell $2 trays from Wal-mart later, and everybody is in their own little space. I’ve also been cutting out some tray blanks, including a pair from air-dried walnut and maple.  More later–when they’re assembled!

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I’ve deciced to invest in the beads for this year. I placed two orders, one to znetshows and the other to Fire mountain Beads.   Znetshows is a mostly wholesale site, requiring a business license and a $100 minimum order to get the good prices.  I got most of the beads there for around $2.50 for [...]

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