Celebrating Summer

                                           First Day of Summer Sunrise   4:45 AM

First Day of Summer Beads

First Day of Summer Tumbling

Summer is my favorite season. I was up early to welcome it to the North Country. I feel blessed to have had such a beautiful day and the time to do some of my favorite activities. 

Right Angle Weave Bracelet

I have been making a lot of bracelets and necklaces lately for a shop in the Adirondacks called Red Truck Pottery in Chestertown, New York. The owner, Bill Knoble, has moved to this area lately since he married one of my good friends.  Bill makes incredible ceramic dinner ware and fires it in a giant wood fueled kiln.  His glazes are to die for.  As you can imagine, I am pleased to be asked to have my jewelry in his shop.

 The photos above are one of the bracelets I have been making.  I used turquoise rounds,  tiny mookite disks and one of my toggle clasps with those great leaf toggle bars from Bello Modo.  The bead work is made with number 6  seed beads and is the right angle weave stitch.

Peyote Plain

A new peyote stitch bracelet without any surface decoration.  The button is in the back and it is overlapped onto the bracelet so that there is no skin showing when I wear it.

More tumbled, stained stoneware beads.  I now have a new barrel--clear plastic--for my tumbler.  I had a rubber one and it would get the black sludggies every so often.  Now I can watch my beads tumble and pull them when the color is just right.  I can't wait to try it.

When I was working with these wonderful multicolored seed beads (bracelet above), I noticed how well they go with the teal ceramic beads.  So now I have a partly finished bracelet with the two together.  Just waiting until I get the right button to close it with--and to finish the edges.

Donation Bracelet

Tuscan Sun Bracelet

Made with my handmade Tuscan red ceramic beads, deep red sea glass beads from The Beadin'Path, small mookite disc beads and Sun Toggle Clasp from Lima Beads. 

Bracelet is constructed with right angle weave.

I am donating this bracelet to a silent auction to raise money for GardenShare.  Their mission is " to build a North Country where all of us have enough to eat and enough to share—where our food choices are healthy for us, for our communities, and for the environment. "

Art Bead Scene Carnival Bloggers Statement Necklace

Statement Necklace Honoring Ceramic Beads of Clay Artists 

I made this necklace from ceramic beads and pendants that I have collected over the years as part of the Yahoo Beads-of-Clay group

handmade ceramic beads, buttons or pendants from the the following artists  are included in this statement necklace

Captain's Clay

Tyler Hennigan

Joan Tucker

Marti Conrad

Natalie Gillihan

Annie O'Fallon

Virginia Miska

Shattera Clay

Jessica Sharrah

Melanie Brooks

Lisa Peters

Christine Smith

Vanessa Gilkes

Vicka

Gaea

Lisa Shifflett

Kristie Roeder

Marla James

Tracy Isley

Creative Impressions in Clay

Yolanda's Clay

Jangles

Mary Harding

Marsha Neal

Gail Splaver

Golem Studio

Barb Tilley

Natalie Pappas

Marsha Hedrick

Joan Miller

Cindy Dolezal

Annie Dilker

Evelyn Peckham Arvey

Mossy Hill Studio

Elaine Ray

Andi Fasimpaur

SummersStudio

Maku Studio

Lisa Stevens

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