Starburst Galaxy Fire Necklace

I recently showed you the Starburst Galaxy Kit in the Fire colorway in blazing orange, hot pink and purple Swarovski crystals!  I linked them together into a necklace and added some more Swarovski crystal briolette drop beads to dangle from the links.

Here you can see how it looks on.  It's not symmetrical, but I think it's still well balanced.  I like the stars placed asymmetrically because real stars in the sky are scattered randomly.  So I think that's how they're supposed to look, scattered and random.  Plus, the stars themselves are so symmetric, it's nice to break it up a bit and add some randomness back into the finished piece. 

If you'd like to join us for the class, you can't because it's over.  But we do have patterns and kits now available: Beaded Starburst Galaxy.

Starburst Galaxy Kit in Fire

I recently showed you the Starburst Galaxy kit in the Water colorway.  Here are some of the stars in the Fire colorway in blazing orange, hot pink and purple Swarovski crystals!

 Here you can see how the kit might look as a necklace and a pair of earrings.

 Or one large necklace...

 Or a wall hanging...

Or a bracelet...

There are so many ways to arrange these stars.  If you would like to learn to make beaded stars for yourself, we have patterns and kits available.

Color Medallion No. 4 Blue Marine

This is the fourth Color Medallion I made, and this one will be a kit.  If you like playing with color, Color Medallions offer a fun challenge.  I had to do quite a bit of ripping and redoing to get this to blend as I liked, but in the end, I think I got it.  I enjoy working with blue glass beads because blue glass comes in a wide variety of shades including the very intense blues I used here.

If you want one, you should come take our class.  Florence and I will teach this class together at the Bead & Button Show 2013.  Color Medallion kits are now available.  Thanks for looking!

Color Medallion No.3 Violet Boudoir

This is the third color medallion I made.

I'm pretty happy with it, so much that I might actually have to keep this one for myself.  I made kits, but they are all sold out. You can find other kits and the pattern here.

Florence and I taught this class together at the Bead & Button Show 2013.  Thanks for looking!

Starburst Necklace (Water) Part 3

I finished my Starburst Galaxy necklace in this color scheme inspired by water. 

In the Starburst Galaxy class students will learn to make a whole galaxy of beaded stars.  I wanted students to make a nice sample of the different sizes, so the kits we are assembling will make the 5 different stars shown here.   (These 5 stars are just a few of the 20 or more possibilities you can make with this technique.)    The kits include enough materials to make 9 different stars:  1 large 8-star and 2 each of the smaller stars.   With 9 stars, you can make earrings, pendants, a bracelet or a necklace, or some combination of these.  We thought it would be the most fun and informative for you if the kits make a bunch of different stars, and then let to you decide how to finish your stars into jewelry.  I finished mine into a necklace with some twisted cubic right angle weave in the back.

I'm going to make two more beaded star kits for this class.  For the "Fire" and "Gothic" Starburst kits, we just ordered a HUGE pile of Swarovski crystals yesterday morning.  Once the crystals arrive, I'll start beading some sample, and show you photos as I take them.  Thanks for looking.

Rivoli Urchin Necklace Kits

Back by popular demand is the Rivoli Urchin Necklace kit in green and bronze. 

I don't often make a kit color scheme more than once after it sells out because it can be tricky trying to re-source the beads later.  But we had a lot of people asking for this one, so I did it.  It took me the good part of a year to track down all of the ingredients again, and here it is.  Thanks for looking.

Starburst Necklace (Water), Part 2

I'm still working on my Starburst Galaxy necklace kit in this color scheme inspired by water. 

I think I finished all of the stars I'm going to use in this piece. I wanted to make a nice sample of the different sizes, so the kits I'm going to assemble for my students will make all of the stars shown here. Still, I'm going to leave it up to the individual students to find their own drop beads. I'm also going to let them decide how they want to finish the back, or if they want to make a bracelet or earrings or what.

...which brings me to my next task, figuring out how to finish the back of this necklace... with a beaded cable, maybe? A metal chain, ribbon, or stringing beads? Oh the possibilities!

Thanks for looking.

Desiging Starburst Galaxy Kits Water

I'm working on classroom kits for the Starburst Galaxy class that Florence Turnour and I will be teaching at the Bead & Button Show in June 2013.    The class will teach you to make stars in four different sizes, each with any numbers of points.  The five stars here are just a few of the 20 or more possibilities.

These stars are links, meaning that they are components that you can connect together with jump rings.  You can also dangle wired drops from their points.  After I finish weaving the rest of the set, I'll link them together to make a large necklace and show you. 

We now have patterns and kits available for the Beaded Starburst Galaxy so you can learn to make them yourself.