Miniature food beads........

 

This past week I have been revisiting my popular stacked cheeseburger bead design and topping up my Etsy store in good time for summer BBQ fun and added a new sweet treat design too in the form of tiny ice-cream waffle cones in lots of delicious flavours.

Bring on the sunshine!

Jolene xx

 

Mandla focal beads................

 

Mandla stacked dots beads

This past week I have become quite obsessed with making this style of large dotty lampwork focal beads.

It's quite fascinating watching the dots melt down and flow and interact with one another in color and form.

Find me on Etsy here - www.etsy.com/uk/shop/JoleneBeadsJewellery

Jolene xx

Butterfly bead stacks and wing sets

I have been working on a new to me bead style, baking collections of thin textured drop beads and beads with pairs of wings that stack up to form butterflies.

The best place to find them for sale is in a new Facebbok group called Makers Muse.

Thanks for looking, Jolene xxx

 

Multicolor and more!

A collection of my newest work including a lot of pretty beads made with Reichebach Multicolor

A collection of my newest work including a lot of pretty beads made with Reichebach Multicolor.

Many of these beads are sold already but if you would like to see my newest work for sale check out the new facebook group 

Makers Muse

Jolene x

First beads for April.....

New work...... 

I am working hard on making matched pairs of beads on the same mandrel...

fairly simple designs in bright colours.

Also I have recently been making a lot of encased ammonite beads, so loving the colours in this one!

I bought an impression plate with a butterfly motif (designed for use on metal sheet rather than glass) and used it to make these shank buttons but am not convinced the texture is deep enough.

Last up a bit of wall storage that I bought in ikea recently, it does a great job of organising my graphite tools.

Texture tools available at jolenebeads.com

Lampwork beads available at jolenebeadsjewellery.etsy.com

and also in my facebook group here www.facebook.com/groups/joleneBeads

New beads this week......

 Just a quick post run from me today, have a lovely day

Jolene xx

Texture tools available at jolenebeads.com

Lampwork beads available at jolenebeadsjewellery.etsy.com

and also in my facebook group here www.facebook.com/groups/joleneBeads

Cute sea creature beads....

Cute ocean critter heart beads

These are my favourite beads of 2024....so far!

Two tone glass hearts with a dash of silver leaf to bring out the organic caramel and sandy beach tones with teal instead of aqua for contrasting water element.

Decorated with cartoonis craba, lobsters and baby octopus with googly eyes.

Jolene x 

 

Texture tools available at jolenebeads.com

Lampwork beads available at jolenebeadsjewellery.etsy.com

and also in my facebook group here www.facebook.com/groups/joleneBeads

Little monster fundraiser for CALM.....

Fundraising for suicide prevention charity CALM

Just 2 weeks ago my younger brother passed away from injuries he sustained during a suicide attempt. It is a very sad ending to what has been a decades long battle with mental health for him.

In my own way of trying to come to terms with what has happened I have started making these little monster beads with moustaches to raise money for CALM (campaign against living miserably) who provoke conversation around suicide, run life-saving services and bring people together to reject living miserably and get help when they need it s they don't die by suicide. 

I have all of the beads in an album on my facebook profile HERE with all the details of how you can adopt one of these guys and support CALM through my just giving fundraising page. 

 If you find yourself in need of support please reach out to one of the organisations set up to help....

CALM - https://www.thecalmzone.net

Samaritans - https://www.samaritans.org

and you can find a much larger list of websites and contact numbers for mental heath support on the Mind website here

www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/crisis-services/helplines-listening-services/

Jolene x

Bead sets ready now.....

 A selection of my glass beads in stock now....

Pansy Beads and more...

Still rebelling against the cold snap, I have made even more pretty flower beads this week. These top two mini sets are my first attempts at sculptural pansy beads. I enjoyed making them so very much and will ty to miniaturise the style a little for earring beads next week.

Jolene x

Texture tools available at jolenebeads.com

Lampwork beads available at jolenebeadsjewellery.etsy.com

and also in my facebook group here www.facebook.com/groups/joleneBeads