I Can See Clearly Now

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Is this a beautiful lanyard or what!

Robin called and said that her clear lanyard broke, and she saw one of my lanyards and wanted me to make one for her. YEAH!!

Not that her lanyard broke, but that she wanted me to make something beautiful for her!!

The lanyard is made with a lovely mix of glass and seed beads, the focal bead is a beautiful blown glass cone shaped bead.

Enjoy Robin!

Slashes of Color...

Autumn Leaf Necklace
This 17" necklace is made with Carnelian gemstone chips, a Hill Tribe leaf pendant, Sterling Silver round beads, and a Sterling Silver Lobster Claw clasp.

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Spice is Nice

17.5" necklace is created with Mexican Multi Agate Oval beads, Hermatite 6mm and 4mm round beads, Sterling Silver round and flat beads and a Sterling Silver Lobster Claw clasp.

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Cinnamon Bliss
20.5" necklace features Multi colored glass oval beads, Rainbow Poppy Jasper 6mm round beads, Copper Freshwater Pearls, Sterling Silver melon, round and flat beads, Sterling Silver Lobster Claw clasp.

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Simply Salt & Pepper

This beautiful lanyard is made using 6mm Czech glass Black Bicone beads, Clear Seed Bead mix and a lanyard clasp.

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Necklace Set and Lanyard

My friend Carla commissioned me to make some jewelry for an upcoming auction at her church, she wanted a necklace and earring set and a lanyard. I wanted to give her an option so I made two necklace for her to pick from, she ended up selecting both!



Here is the lanyard, I wanted something neutral so that the lanyard can go with everything, very classic black and white.

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Va Va Va Voom

This is a very chic necklace made with Mother-of-Pearl big chunky nuggets and Quartz big chunky nuggets and a brushed Sterling Silver heart shaped toggle. Can you picture a black turtleneck with this or any solid color shirt or dress. Stunning. I told Carla that my hubby really liked this one and even said I need to make one for myself!

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The matching earrings on a lever back ear wire.

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Pretty Pearls

The second necklace is a delicate Freshwater pearl necklace with cream, bronze and berry pearls, Sterling Silver round beads, a S-hook clasp and a dangle with all three color pearls. I enjoy pearls because you can dress them up or down, this will look great with a nice dress and just a pretty with jeans and a tee, and it will go with just about everything.

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The matching earrings for this necklace on French ear wire.

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These should be a hit at the auction. Thanks Carla!

New Lanyards

Here are a few lanyards that I recently made. This one is just a rainbow of colors, I always think of Skittles candies when I see this one. It has a rainbow of seed beads and clear Czech beads.

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The classic black and white lanyard

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and the pretty as can be pink lanyard

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Black and White Lanyard

This lanyard was made for one of Eric's co-workers, it features black and white bumpy lampwork beads, black faceted Czech glass beads and seed beads. Very stylish and the bumpy beads gives it lots of texture.

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Turquoise and Amber Lanyard

Here is a lanyard that I finished last night for one of Eric's co-workers, it features these incredible glass focal beads with turquoise, brown and amber swirls along with 8mm amber round faceted glass beads and seed beads. You have to see it to really get the WOW!

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More Lanyards...

I had a request for two black lanyards earlier this week. Yeah! This one has gemstone chips, the Miyuki bugle beads and seed beads.

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The second one has Black Onyx beads, Miyuki bugle beads and seed beads. They both were a big hit! Thank you ladies!!

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New Jewelry

I have been busy over the last two weeks making jewelry, take a look and let me know what you think...

The picture does not do this bracelet justice. This is a multi colored fresh water pearl bracelet with 2mm clear crystals between each pearl to give it a little sparkle. I plan to make the necklace and earrings to match. Click the picture to enlarge so you can get a better look!

This bracelet features Swarovski pearls and fuchsia round faceted crystals.

The earrings to go with the bracelet above, I didn't want to use the fuchsia crystals so that I can wear the earrings with more things. I really like pearls because you can dress them up or down, and they always make you feel pretty!

This is a multi colored lanyard, I think this one is my favorite (this week!) I'm thinking of making a necklace to match, this is so cute.

The next two lanyards have a Native American feel, turquoise has been one of my favorites for years, and it really pops in this piece.



This one is more muted with turquoise and the amber and bronze beads.

My "All Things Red" lanyard, I even included red focal beads on this one. This lanyard will help brighten even the most hectic of days!

Someone at Eric's job saw the green lanyard I made with the pineapple clasp and wanted one just like it! This one is not exactly like the other one, but made with the same beads and of course the same pineapple clasp.

One happy beader!

Amber Lanyard

Amber glass beads lanyard that sold yesterday. What a wonderful feeling to make something, and someone likes it enough to buy it! What a great feeling...

More Weekend Projects

I was commissioned to make this sorority bracelet for a friend, it has Siam Swarovski round and bicone crystals, sterling silver smooth and fluted round beads, sterling silver Greek letter beads for Delta Sigma Theta, with a heart toggle clasp.

Here is the green glass beads lanyard I made with a beautiful pineapple pewter lanyard ring...

Pretty pink lanyard...

This is the "can wear with everything" clear glass beads lanyard that I was working on, I finished this one Thursday evening for a co-worker of Eric's.

Make Today, Wear Today!

My dear hubby blessed me by cooking breakfast Sunday morning! We had cinnamon pancakes and sausages - yummy. You know food prepared by someone other than you always taste better, but he really did a wonderful job!

Since I had some extra time Sunday morning, and had on a new shirt, I thought I would make a new bracelet. The bracelet has Czech beads, Swarovski pearls and crystals, and is cute as a button.

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I'm working on a new lanyard... this goes with everything.

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New Lanyards

I have been busy as a bee making lanyards! Eric was going to use this on as a display piece for his office, but it was snapped up and purchased by Mrs. Hill, who also wants me to make a sorority bracelet for her! Click the pictures to make them larger if needed.

Eric also said two other ladies wanted lanyards one in blue, the other in black, you know I'm overjoyed with this news. I thought he said that they didn't want the focal beads like I used in Cathy's lanyard, but wanted one "just like" Mrs. Hill's. Not. What's done is done, so from now one I will make them fancy with the focal beads! Here is the blue lanyard.


The black lanyard.

Here is the display lanyards, I will have to do a fancy one with larger focal beads for display as well! LOL

My First Lanyard

This is my very first beaded lanyard - I made it last night for Kathy, one of Eric's co-workers. I was drawn to the focal beads, they are glass foil coin shaped beads, I also used Miyuki clear color-lined square and bugle beads, and a few green round beads, I think it is very pretty, I just hope Kathy will like the lanyard. What do you think?

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