Humblearts Journal

Beading Good Times!

I've just spent 10 days of beading fun with my mom.  We've bead embroidered our little hearts out, finished our samples for the Bead Cruise classes and inspired each other all week! 

Here is the finished necklace that I used for our Bead Cruise logo:

This is bead embroidery on felted shapes.  Which happens to be one of the classes I'm going to teach on the Bead Cruise.  Here is the sample photo of what you'll do in the class.  (The ones above would be with a little more practice!)

This will be a felt bead making class.  I love the mix of textures with the beads and wool.

Here are the cuff bracelets that my mom and I made.  Mine is on the left.  She is teaching this on the cruise, so I got to take her class first!  So spoiled. 

And just because you haven't seen enough beads today, I have some auctions ending soon, here is one of them:

New Beads

A new batch of auctions on eBay:

Other creative things happening at the humblearts studio:

My mom and I have been bead embroidering, I'll have pictures to post soon.  She's visiting for a few weeks, yeah!

Getting everything ready for the Bead Cruise, registration opens next week.

Making jewelry to take to the gallery next month.

Not so much on the illustration front.  I've been working on stories of my own to illustrate.  Now I just need to find the time to work on them. 

Hope you are enjoying some lazy June days!

   

Auctions, so many auctions!

And so many more: here and here.  Happy bidding!

June Bead of the Month

I've been busy making my Bead of the Month.  For June, I went with the elements, fire and water.  I've been working on new shapes for my beads too.  And I'm really loving this new design.  I have teal ones that will go up on eBay.  I'm also working on this design in some other complimentary color schemes. 

I strung my sample bead with 8 mm poppy jasper beads and amazonite with 2 strands of teal seed beads on the other side.

In other bead related news, the Bead Bugle, on online bead magazine has featured me in this month's issue.  You can read it here.

I've spent most of my week filling orders and making new jewelry.  I have a nice little collection of new bracelets and here is a necklace that I designed.  The flower comes from JuJu Vail's Creative Beading book.  The flower is the clasp with my little disk bead as the other part of the toggle.

I wanted a quick and simple design for summer.  It's just two stands of seed beads with the bead work in the front.  Looks really pretty on.