Two New Necklaces

Here are two new necklaces I just finished recently. The first one features a beautiful calico lace agate stone. It's the nicest piece of calico lace that I've seen and it is hard to find such good quality anymore. Truly a collector piece!

The second necklace features an amethyst cluster. This is a creation I've been thinking about and wanting to try for some time now. Most clusters are done up with wire wrap so I thought it would be nice to see one with beadwork instead. It's a very different look, a little more natural looking I think.

I welcome any comments... if you'd like to see more, please click here.

Thanks!

Artist Friends

I wanted to take some time today to introduce everyone to a new friend of mine from Etsy, the online shopping source for handmade items. He's known as Teaman on Etsy and for a good reason, he makes some of the most delicious tea I've had and that's saying a lot! He's originally from Windsor, Ontario, Canada and relocated to the US in 1996. He lives in the quaint little town of Howell, Michigan with his wife, two daughters and a pug.

Teaman has worked with the production and custom blending of tea for years. His tea is bagged with the highest quality tea paper providing great flow through ability yet prohibits product dispersion keeping its contents intact. Whether it is Assam, Ceylon, Kenyan, Chinese, Indian or Japanese, his teas are always fresh and are of the highest quality. Hand blended with real fruit, spices, roots, or beans then enhanced by adding flavor flakes. A fairly unique process which sets his teas apart. It is like flavor crystals that enhance the flavors of the fruit and spices. Along the lines of flavor crystals when added to chewing gum. The crystals flavor is dispersed with the addition of boiling water filling your cup with robust flavor!

His Etsy shop (click here to visit his shop) even has a recipe for making iced tea!

Right now he's running a special offer available through the month of August – receive 25 FREE cherry, orange & almond teabags with EVERY purchase of $5 or more.

Purchases of under $5 will receive 10 free teabags.

Please check out Teaman's Etsy shop, you'll be glad you did!!!

Gem Show in Springfield, MA

News from Beadworks by Kerri..... What a wonderful trip I had with one of my very good friends, Kristie-Lou Brigham, this past weekend. We took a couple of days off from the daily grind to attend a gem show in Springfield, MA. It was the first gem show of this magnitude for me to attend and I must say, it was a little overwhelming at times. We drove up the day before and spent the night so we would have a shorter drive the next morning. Got to the show about 9:30am and didn't leave until 6:30pm. It was a long day, but well worth the time and effort. We both got some beautiful treasures and will be busy making new jewelry for quite some time. Kristie does wire wrap using mostly crystals and minerals and I do beadwork using mostly cabs, so we shopped in different booths for the most part. It sure was nice to have someone keeping me company, though, for the 5 1/2 hour drive up there and back home again. We had quite the adventure getting back home too, what with signs posted wrong on the highway, almost running out of gas, and almost getting run over......we sure were glad to be back in PA!

This is me right outside the gem show venue.....it was packed full of people in no time!!

Here's my good friend, Kristie, wire wrap goddess....heehee

Yet Another Sedona Stone

Green is the color of the day with the 4th piece for the Sedona collection. This variscite is such a lovely shade of green, it's hard to capture it's beauty on film (least with my camera and photography abilities). I teamed it with seed beads that are also a striking green color and some small silver beads. The pendant comes with a black ribbon clasp that's removable so you can either use it or another chain of your choosing.

Sure to make a great addition to your ever growing jewelry collection.

You may purchase this pendant at www.beadworksbykerri.etsy.com

Thank you!

Tigereye Beauties

Finally got another piece done from the Sedona beads I purchased while on vacation. Aren't these two of the prettiest tigereye pieces you've ever seen? Once I saw them done up I wish I'd have purchased more sets. The beadwork on these was a little tricky because of their shape, but it was well worth the effort.

Fortunately (or unfortunately if you fell in love with these earrings) this pair is already reserved for a regular customer and not for sale.

You can see other designs at my Etsy shop www.beadworksbykerri.etsy.com

Thanks for looking!!

Sedona, AZ Line of Jewelry

Here are the first two pieces of jewelry from my new line created with stones purchased while on vacation in Sedona, AZ. What a truly beautiful place with equally beautiful stones. These necklaces, along with other jewelry designs, can be found at http://www.beadworksbykerri.etsy.com/

This very earthy necklace features a faceted picture jasper teardrop pendant and Arizona turquoise chips. The turquoise chips have been dabbled with diamond shaped picture jasper to fuse the look and create an overall classy design.

The double strand necklace measures 16" and the teardrop measures 1 1/8" x 7/8". Strung with an antique brass toggle clasp.

Amber chips are combined with natural mother of pearl beads to showcase the brown agate pendant in this necklace.

The necklace itself measures 18" in length and the pendant is 1 3/8" x 7/8". Strung with an antique brass toggle clasp.

Hope you enjoy these designs. I'll be posting more as they are created.

Thank you for looking!

Slideshow of Jewelry

Can't believe I figured out how to do this, but I made up a slideshow of a jewelry sampling and published it on youtube today.....isn't that something!! I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks...LOL

I'd love to hear your comments and suggestions, here's the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAm-qONoN9Q

Now if I can figure out how to add the video to this blogspot, that will be something.....

Thank you!