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This is one of the few items I enjoy recreating--I love the turquoise and persimmon ...

I had an idea some time ago for a beadcap made of two strips of ...

I was thinking of a slender, tightly closed bud when I created these slim, lily-shaped ...

I found a fabulous strand of crazy lace agate at my local bead shop, that ...

I'm in the mood for spring! I fastened these diaphanous lampwork glass blossoms by Mermaid ...

I tried an unusual color combination for these earrings, based around a pair of stoneware ...

I created these little flowers from raw nickel sheet, and textured them with stamps and ...

I chose a sweet little wood button shaped like a flower for the centerpiece of ...

I created this vaguely bird-shaped, double-sided focal from raw copper sheet. After etching two identical ...

Summer wasn't even over, and I was already wanting to make jewelry in fall colors! ...

I designed this little bracelet around a a fabulous handmade stoneware leaf charm by Karen ...

I experimented with copper sheet, copper wire and coin textures in these metalwork earrings. I ...

In a wild moment a couple years ago I purchased this strand of barbell-shaped carnelian ...

I'm unearthing my fabulous stash of beads, and it's like Christmas! I came across these ...

I'm unearthing my fabulous stash of beads, and it's like Christmas! I came across these ...

The darkly iridescent plumage of a raven made me want to combine these black horn ...

In this necklace, I've attached turquoise discs in varying colors and sizes to a petite ...

I created the clasp in this bracelet from a sandcast brass medallion from Ghana (via ...

I have a whole new litter of patina coin focals waiting to be turned into ...

I combined both rustic and refined in these sea green earrings--recycled glass beads from Indonesia ...

For the clasp on this bracelet, I enhanced a couple of old foreign with Vintaj ...

For this pendant, I created a triangular pinch bail (texturing it with a 1959 British half ...

I paired this eye-popping fan-shape pendant of magenta impression jasper with one of my hand-crafted ...

I love the spicy brick red and teal veining in this red creek jasper pendant! ...

I chose a brilliantly hued fossil agate stone for this pendant, and created a rectangular ...

I love the historical feel this pendant took on as I worked on it. It ...

I created this bracelet from one of my flower toggle clasps. I created a wrapped ...

I fashioned these tightly curled "lily" cones from wafer-thin solid copper sheet, texturing them with ...

I cut these little rustic flower beadcaps from raw nickel sheet. Then I annealed them, ...

I had a brainwave the other day, casting about the house for something I could ...

This necklace was created as part of the "Bead Soup Blog Party" for February 2012, hosted ...

I just love the delicate hues in this pink fire agate stone--translucent baby pink, salmon, ...

I cut these bold flower beadcaps from raw nickel sheet. Then I annealed them, pickled ...

For these earrings, I fashioned little flower petal beadcaps in copper, textured them in a ...

For these earrings, I fashioned little flower petal beadcaps in copper, textured them in a ...

For these earrings, I fashioned little flower petal beadcaps in copper, stamped them with a ...

These earrings were designed around a fabulous pair of lampwork beads in a fascinating "oil ...

I've taken a pair of my favorite pewter heart charms, and combined them with a ...

For these earrings, I fashioned little flower petal beadcaps in copper and paired them with ...

There is just a bit of broody romance in this pendant--the hand-painted silk ribbon in ...

I love silver and gold together--these earrings are a loose homage to silver and gold! ...

I recently went wild buying up gazillions (i.e., dozens) of pairs of Czech glass ...

This subtly asymmetrical necklace features one of my riveted heart focals. I combined it with ...

I started with one of my double-sided heart charms for this bracelet, and thought all ...

The colors in these earrings remind me of high desert in winter--snow on sagebrush. Even ...

I recently created a little assortment of flower-based clasps; some are toggle clasps, and some ...

I made dozens of these little copper "flames" in my torch--double-ended ball headpins, actually--and wound ...

I imagine tiny little wizards waving these tiny azure wands; or tiny little magical kings ...

I'm slowly working through my small stash of textured copper bars--I made up about six ...

I fell hard for these gear-like rings in russet-glazed ceramic by Karen Totten! I love ...