Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Bookends



Here's the third necklace I finished over the last couple of days. I'm working on several, sometimes all at one time. I like using the matte black beads with the faceted and shiny ones.


I've been playing with shapes for beads, this is a hollow tubular bead with three holes in it. I wasn't sure how I might use it until I saw a design by Lorelei Eurto. I hadn't seen her necklace before I made the bead, so it was a fun moment when I thought her idea could inspire me. Her brass tube focal doesn't have three holes, but I loved how she used the two holes with wire to suspend dangles below the focal bead.


I planned to list just the bead, but decided I wanted to try designing with it myself. The colors, tone and shape of the necklace is different from Lorelei's but it caused me to think about the bead in a new way.


I used a double link chain for the dangle below the tubular bead. The bead itself has lots of interesting design and color areas, it reminds me of batik fabric designs, so the warm copper tones seemed to work really well with the color. That's one of my hand dyed costume pearls at the top as an ornament for the bead.

6 comments:

SummersStudio said...

Lovely, Lynn. I really like how you used the focal bead.

SueBeads said...

Hi Lynn, I love it!

Lorelei Eurto said...

Wonderful job! That bead is great! will you be offering beads like this in your shop?

Kristin said...

Gorgeous! Absolutely gorgeous!

Fanciful Expressions said...

Lovely! It's so different from anything else I've seen. Your mind works in wonderful ways,Lynn.

Carolyn

LLYYNN - Lynn Davis said...

::chuckling and blushing:: thanks! Yes, I will make some more like it, maybe not all with 3 holes, maybe some with just one at each end. I don't know about y'all but it's warm and spring-like here and I have spring fever!