Friday 8 May 2009

Turquoise Beading Frenzy

Once a year, and sometimes more often, I get into this turquoise obsession where everything I make and everything I buy has turquoise in it… the last few weeks has been one of those times…. and needless to say I LOVE turquoise!!!!

To top off my turquoise craze I got into this weird mood where I felt the urge to cover as many surfaces as I possibly could with beads! These are two creations where I used some of those turquoise beaded covered beads:

The first one is just a simple beaded bead strung onto a gold metal choker. I love this bead so much that I just wanted to show it off on it’s own without drawing away from the actual bead itself.

Leah’s Jewel – Choker

The second was created using some of the other beaded beads I made during this period. I actually created the beads randomly to fit with the design of the necklace that I had in my head. I used different shapes of genuine turquoise beads and connected all the beads with a basic dark gold and turquoise spiral rope.

Turquoise Galaxy – Necklace

I’m very happy with how these two pieces turned out!!! During the same frenzied period I also covered some wooden doughnuts… and they’ve turned out quite cool…. I just haven’t figured out what to do with them yet :-) and as I’ve been feeling rather poorly this week, I left them for another day :-)

I really had fun making all these beaded beads and am sure I will be making more… and if I can tear myself away from my love of turquoise I may even make them in some other colour combinations :-)

Wishing everyone a happy and peaceful weekend! :-)

8 comments:

  1. What wonderful pieces of jewelry! Simply amazing.

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  2. Triz, most importantly, I hope you feel much better soon!

    These combined obsessions of turquoise and covering surfaces sure are resulting in some astonishing work. Brava, my friend, brava!

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  3. Love the pieces, each so different but equally beautiful...I'm a huge fan of turquoise myself and do the same thing...overload on turquoise pieces!!!

    Feel better soon!
    Cheers

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  4. What can i say?? Everything you do is... so beautiful!!!!

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  5. I'm totally with you on the turquoise obsession, especially with browny tones. Gorgeous work.

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  6. You know turquoise is one of my favourite colors... and these two new creations are really wonderful!... great work Triz!!!

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  7. I am fallen in love with these wonderful turquoise beaded beads. They are wonderful . Would it be possible to buy a tutorial ? many thanks Cristina Gualtierotti- Italy

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  8. Thank you so much Cristina. I'm afraid I don't have a tutorial for these but there are some great beaded beads tutorial out there, here are 2 very good designers:
    https://www.etsy.com/shop/gwenbeads?section_id=5815553&ref=shopsection_leftnav_6
    and
    https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBeadedBead?section_id=14211678&ref=shopsection_leftnav_4
    I hope this helps you. Happy beading :-)

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