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New Tila Teardrop Earrings
A while back, when I was working on the Dewdrop beaded bead design, I wanted to make a pair of earrings in a matching style. I think I've finally succeeded with these tila bead earrings:These earrings...
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Free Pattern: Tila Droplet Charm
I wrote up a pattern for the tila earrings that I posted a few days ago, and it's now available on my website as a free pattern. Presenting the Tila Droplet Charm!I designed this charm to match the...
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Tila Droplet Charm Necklace
While I was weaving the Tila Droplet Charm earrings, I experimented with stringing them on thin beading wire like I did for my Sakura Charms. They fit though the beading wire rather effortlessly, and I...
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New Kits: Fiberoptic Duo Beaded Beads
Kits are now available for the Fiberoptic Duo Beaded Beads. Each kit makes five beaded beads, and since both the cube and octahedron versions use the same number of beads, each kit can make either five...
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Tila and Rizo Charm Earrings
Have you Rizo'd? After making a Double Bubble Jacks beaded bead with these little rice-shaped drop beads, I tried them out in my new Tila Droplet Charm design. I substituted both the 2.8 and 3.4 mm...
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Sparkling Compass Earrings with Rizos
In preparation for the classes that I'm teaching at the 2013 Bead & Button Show, I wove a pair of Sparkling Compass Earrings with a very simple bead substitution. Can you tell?Sparkling Compass...
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Sunset Sparkling Compass Set
I finished a new set of samples for the Sparkling Compass Set, which I'll be teaching at the Bead & Button Show this June. I picked up some cosmic crystals in astral pink, and found that they blend...
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Origami Interlude: Immortelle
For this month's Origami Interlude, I folded a piece designed by Lukasheva Ekaterina of Kusudama.me. She has a gorgeous gallery of kusudama origami, and several free diagrams to boot! This piece is...
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Fiberoptic Dodecahedron
It feels like a while since I blogged about what I've been up to, which makes me feel like I'm not accomplishing anything. I've actually been working on several projects at once that are in varying...
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Bead & Button Show Class Update
A reminder that registration is open for classes at the 2013 Bead & Button Show, and the classes are filling up! The Friday session of my Tila Garden Pendant class is already full, but there's...
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Coffee and Tea Caffeine Pendants
I wove three new Caffeine Molecule Pendants and listed them in my Etsy shop. Two are in coffee-themed colors, while another is in a nice green tea! Click on the links below each photo to learn more...
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New Pattern: Fiberoptic Dodecahedron Set
I finished the pattern for the Fiberoptic Dodecahedron, and it's now part of a set of designs available on my website at beadorigami.com.Fiberoptic Dodecahedron SetThe cornerstone of this set, the...
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Designing Matching Earrings
Too often, I will make a fancy pendant or a necklace without a matching pair of earrings. I come to regret this decision every time I need to go out to a nice dinner or one of my husband's symphony...
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Chocolate Molecules
What's better than beaded molecules from coffee and tea? How about one from chocolate?Beaded Theobromine Molecule Pendant - Dark ChocolateTheobromineCaffeine is just one of a class of molecules called...
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Ways to Wear the Fiberoptic Dodecahedron
After designing the Fiberoptic Dodecahedron Pendant, a lingering question on my mind was how to incorporate it into jewelry. I debated using it as a focal piece in a beaded necklace, but it's such an...
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Easter Egg Basket
At about this same time last year I wrote up the Plum Egg beaded bead pattern, which was inspired by an origami structure of the same geometry. At the time I had the idea to make an Easter basket full...
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Origami Interlude: Tiny Paper Cranes
If you've ordered any beading kits from my website in the past couple of months, you might have noticed something special included in your shipment.These tiny little paper cranes came about from a...
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New Pendant with Rizos and Rivolis
I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to the start of spring. So, I designed a new pendant with a floral theme.Design Goal: Something Flowery, with Rizo BeadsI thought that the new rizo beads...
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Fiberoptic "Egg" Beaded Bead
As a full-fledged science and math nerd, I like to explore many possible geometry variations in my beadwork. Along these lines, I recently wove a new variation of my Fiberoptic Duo design:The beaded...
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Fiberoptic Easter Egg Earrings
On the heels of creating the Fiberoptic Egg variation of the Fiberoptic Octahedron beaded bead, I've put together three pairs of earrings using this design!Fiberoptic Easter Egg EarringsThe first is in...
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