Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Where oh where has my Muse gone?

I've been in a major slump lately - not sure if it's because of the overly long, hard winter (here in Maine we still have more than two feet of snow on the ground), the extra work created by the addition of two nine month old puppies that have to be trained (every minute of every day - but they are a JOY to hang with) or what it is, but my Muse seems to be on vacation. I sit down each day and try for inspiration but the well is dry! I even made a special trip out to my LBS (the fantastic Beads on the Kennebec) and got some beautiful new beads, but that didn't even help. So, to try and get myself over the slump, I took out the memory wire and some beads and started making bracelets. Guess what?.....it helped, I think.
I started out by making one with the last of my vintage glass pearls and some blue Swarovski cubes - it's bling at it's best!











For the next one I used some pink Celestial Crystals in various sizes along with some really versatile gold spacers:

















This one has some beautiful turquoise nuggets, silver cube beads and long silver tubes:







And the last couple I used some seed beads along with some other beads for simple color blocks.

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