Here's my vicious snake. He's made of size 15 beads done in tubular peyote over memory wire. He has a sculptural peyote head with his forked tongue sticking out. The original inspiration was a bracelet you did some time ago. A woman who tried to touch him at Embellishment thought he bit her 'cause she got an electrical shock when she made contact with his surface. I think it had something to do with the carpeting and his memory wire. Anyway, here he is!

This is my version of your necklace. It's all in some kind of small, facetted jet beads - maybe they're what's called 2 cuts? I had a jet button I wanted to use as a pendant so I cut off the button's shaft with a dremel, netted it and stitched the back of the netting to the center point of the necklace. Then I just finished the pendant with some loops below. Interesting how changing color can alter the look of a design, huh?

I met a wonderful hot glass bead artist named Rebecca Downey at the Grapevine, TX Bead Renaissance show last spring and lusted after her beads - she in turn was gratifyingly captivated by my seed bead work. We arranged a trade - I'd bead some of her beads (a long time dream of hers) in trade for some more of them for me (one for one trade!).

I started out working from the Beaded Spherical netting book, but these aren't spherical, so I really had to spend a while finding the right combo of seed beads to cover the beads nicely. And here is the result!

I've always been fascinated by Celtic knotwork patterns and finally got around to combining this with Delica beads to make two barrettes in square stitch. The one with the fringe became my favorite.

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A Renaissance Festival is held here in Colorado every year and lots of people wear these during the festival. I thought they were very pretty and decided to try to make my own version. I used japanese 11's, bugles and faux pearls.