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

Purple flowers longing for spring...

Beautiful Purple glass...

I have used some stunning purple glass colours to make these pretty sculpted flower beads. The buds to the left are CiM Plum and Trapeze. The buds below are made with Cim Evil Queen and Trapeze and the flower topped buttons below are made with Effetre 072 and Simply Berry.

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

Flower beads, buds and buttons....

Taking a break from making large sets with lots of detail to make pretty curvy beads that have the kind of curves and texture that glass seems to love to make. Some of these are beads and some are shank button style beads with big bold bright petals on top.

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

 

Beads inspired by c.1914 arts and crafts fabric

Voysey fabric inspired bead....

My third attempt at taking inspiration from the fabulous V&A Spectrum book.  

The print I have chosen today is from the Arts and Crafts movement, one of the Cumberland prints by Voysey. This particular furnishing fabric print has a lot of soft muted tones but the closest glass colours in my stash proved a bit more vibrant. 

This process is helping me to pin down what kind of beads I want to make as although this is a cohesive set I feel there are too many styles and base colours within it. I think that a sticking to only 1 or 2 base colours will create sets that are more pleasing to my eyes. 

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