A bracelet made of 6mm Czech lentil beads with offset holes, in herringbone stitch, sewn to a brass bracelet blank, backed with a scrap of deerhide. The original pattern is from Carol Perrenoud's October 2007 Bead and Button article.
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This is a picture of me from the back, wearing my vest with a dragon and my old moonpanel embroidery on it.

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This is a pin made with size 15/0 Japanese beads, peyoted around a wonderful polymer clay cab face made by Mary Tafoya. The piece is named 'Tears for Medusa, in memory of an amazing piece that Mary had stolen from a juried show.


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This is another pin made with various types of beads, peyoted around another polymer clay cab face made by Mary Tafoya. The piece made in traditional backed cab style-I made step by step instructions on the construction technique and am selling the pattern at Bead-Patterns.com, where I sell patterns (designer Sarah Frazier)


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Sometimes a simple, strung necklace does it perfectly. This is my prize set of Kim Miles flower beads and one of her aromatherapy bead/bottles, in a necklace.

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Another stringing job--this is a jade or jadite pendant owned by a co-worker. He wanted something masculine and sturdy. The piece is strung on soft touch with brick red heishe like beads, interspersed with Swarovski black crystals cradling 6mm tiger eye beads.

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This is one of the new Sacajawea dollars, bezeled in peyote stitch a la Red Ventling, the necklace is a modified RAW with garnet 3mm beads and gold-plated Japanese size 15/0's.

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This is my stethoscope--reworked in RAW and peyote stitches--the main motif is a pair of Celtic knots and the small side patterns are yin-yang symbols, all done in size 13 charlottes.

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This is a 3 inch tall bottle covered in right angle weave, peyote, and net stitches. My Mother's Day present to my Mom.

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