The word panels in this necklace are made from shrink plastic that I stamped and hole-punched before baking. This necklace was made as a sign of solidarity with a friend who was struggling with office politics at work. She would often call with her struggles and I would try to help her put it in perspective. This necklace was my …
I made this bead embroidery piece after reading “One Bead At a Time – Exploring Creativity Through Bead Embroidery” by Robin Atkins. It is one of my favorite books…a thin volume but really empowering. Her how-to’s are along the lines of “find something you love, and sew it on. Repeat.” Her approach is very freeing…she insists that if your construction …
This is an improvisational bead embroidery piece. I started by gluing 6 broken lampwork bead halves onto stiff interfacing. (I bought a lot of broken lampwork beads on ebay.) As I worked the embroidery around those elements, it started to look like a little stuffed animal. I gave him a clown hat with a little tassle at the top.
This bracelet is based upon a pattern from a book by Carole Wilcox Wells, The Art and Elegance of Beadweaving. It introduced me to the idea of manipulating a shape by the size of the bead you choose. The bracelet is pretty stiff as a wearable piece because of the tension of the bead weaving…a heavy bangle. I also like …
This is a photo of my grandmother (center) with her two sisters-in-law before the latter were married…so for a brief moment in time, they were all “Turner Girls.” I retouched and colored the photo in Photoshop, as well as adding the text. plaid backgroud and daisy borders. One of my first experiements in “virtual scrapbooking.” I couldn’t get excited about …
This is a photo of my husband’s grandparents, Leo and Fern Wright, taken on their wedding day in 1915. He died very young and this is the only photo we have of him. I did the color work and retouching in Photoshop.
This is an early attempt at bead embroidery. I found an illustration in an old book that I used as a pattern. I printed to heavy cardstock, and embroidered onto that. In the end, I was concerned that the stitches would tear through the well-punctured paper. I have since mounted it to a piece of copper screen, then glued that …