Update and another Russian Spiral

I apologize for the lack of posting this month. I've gone and caught another cold again and I haven't really been in the mood of blogging lately, alto I got some time to bead on and off when I've had the time.

Last weekend I got another request about making a russian spiral necklace; a plain chain tho. Boo-ho, I wasn't allowed to experiment too much, well, not at all to be specific T.T
Anyway, it ended up kinda nice anyway, lol. I chose to work with a navy blue, since the costumer wanted it mainly... then I popped over to that store again to pick out a matching 9/0 to go with the 11/0 navy blue, and it ended up being a clear blue silver lined.



For the attachment I chose to work with some gold plated end caps with head pins and a matching lobster clasp.

Necklace: Queen Elizabeth

So I got another commission to make a Russian Spiral necklace a few weeks ago, and I hadn't been able to begin making it since I've been having a lot of things going on at home etc.
Anyway, the only request I really had about this necklace is that the woman wanted something in yellow and brownish colors, so I decided on taking it a bit further, concerning the design itself.

Last month I filled up my stack of beads with some matsuno 11/0 seed beads in bronze since I've been wanting to stack up on that color since a while.
I used them for the smaller bead for the chain itself, and then I used 9/0 seed beads in two different colors; topaz lined silver and antique gold.



As I began making the chain, I came up with the idea of making just half the length of the chain in two part, followed by some netted beaded beads at each end, which would end up attached to each other, like a pendant. I used some 6mm fire polished czech glass beads and some 6mm bronze colored glass pearls to make 'em. And then at the bottom of each beaded bead I added a fringe.


















I used a copper chain and a lobster-clasp in antique gold as an attachment.
Sorry about the name tho =P It kinda shouted "queen" to me in some weird way, lol.

Necklace: Surface

So, here's another Russian spiral necklace, after a commission I received about a week ago.
The costumer was home to me and actually pointed out what beads she wanted together; black and gunmetal - 11/0 and 8/0 seed beads.

After feeling a bit tired and restless for only doing them Russian Spiral stitches I decided on adding a little attachment in the back just to get some change to the other ones I've made so far.

In the ends, I decided on adding one 6mm gunmetal bead on each side with the lobster clasp. And I added a small piece of the gunmetal-plated chain I still have laying around, and a RAW square at the end of the chain. The whole thing ended up looking kinda cute, and I'm satisfied about it, just hope the costumer will as well, heh =P

Russian Spiral: Golden Sands

I finished up a commission I received a few days ago about a russian spiral necklace in white and golden shades. I made a similar one for my mother in law a while ago and someone had seen it and wanted one as well, heh :P

Personally it's not really  my favorite colors, when I first made it it was an experiment, and I wanted to get rid of some 8/0 in a golden sand mix that I had purchased a while ago, but never could find a use for heh.

I made it using 8/0's from that golden sand mix, and some white 11/0 Czech seed beads with a pearl luster reflection on the surface (I LOVE those ones).

Siblings :)

I've also been a little busy this week. I got two cute little kittens on Monday, and I've been busy entertaining 'em and keeping an eye on 'em. We already got an 7 year older cat so can't be too careful. She haven't done anything to the kitties (which ended up being two females), besides hissing and growling at them. Then after that display she's always been running upstairs, sulking :P

Yuki

Sissi