LiRaysa Designs: February 2015

Checkerboard Blog Hop-Reveal

It's always fun to participate in things that I love to do. I love to write although I don't make public everything that I put on a page. I also love to create with beads. Pine Ridge Treasures owned by Lisa Lodge gives me just that opportunity to create and share with others by providing participants with beautiful beads and components to work with.

I signed up for this challenge in June 2014, so I have had the beads in my possession for longer than I should admit because I put them away to work on other projects and nearly forgot about the blog hop. I had several ideas running through my head but when it came down to putting needle to bead...I just couldn't make them work. I can't begin to tell the number of times I cut apart, unstitched, restarted, etc...

Here are photos of my finished pieces. I hope you like them. I normally do more stitching and less stringing, but finally gave up on the stitching portion when I couldn't make it work with the larger pearls. I decided to keep it a bit simple and just use a peyote stitched ring on the black tube beads and use O beads between the pearls on the necklace and bracelet, or course there has to be earrings to match too. I also made a 2nd bracelet in a feeble attempt at wire working. I can wear it, but I have a lot to learn about wire working.

The last bracelet and earring set is because I absolutely had to use the small black oval pearls in the kit and had some really cool red glass beads on my supply wall that I have really been anxious to use. This bracelet and earrings is a set that can be worn with jeans and a sweater, scrubs, or dressed up. That is my favorite kind of jewelry...versatile.