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I'm practicing faces and this is the latest. She's 40mm high.

and I did another "Chaos" bead last night to keep my hand in.

Time for something new. I've recently become interested in maille work to be used in jewellery. That is, joining jump rings together to make either chains or flat pieces in different patterns. The Wikipaedia definition of chainmaille can be found at Wikipedia
and there are various sites with very good tutorials. A guide to these can be found at Blue Buddha Boutique.

I made these before going to Morrisons for shopping this morning.

I'm only just posting as I visited Dizzy Di at her Studio in Wat Tyler Country Park for a few hours. We swopped tips and she tried out my silver bead corer bought from Dave at artintheround in America.

I've decided to make up some of my older beads into jewellery and this set of lampwork beads was made about 18 months ago. They're not very adventurous and I picked up the green in the beads with the seed beads. They still looked a bit plain so I added the fringing at the bottom.

Here's my first attempt at a spikey seed bead spacer. These have been used by seed beaders with lampwork beads to add interest to jewellery by providing a range of textures. I must try one without the black triangle beads sometime. The red ones are Delica cylinders which are a great but pricier bead because of their uniformity. They work exceptionally well when making a bead picture.

Once a month I go to a seed bead group meeting in Colchester. The project last night was these earings. They're a bit fiddly, but don't take long to make, maybe a couple of hours.

I hope to be able to combine my lampwork beads with seed bead ones in future jewellery.

I've wanted to try one of these spiral necklaces for some time and found a pattern for a bracelet in one of the beading magazines. I just carried on beading and made it long enough to fit over my head with no clasp so that the spiral was continuous.
When I wanted to start, I found I didn't have the size 6 beads for the outer spiral so had to rush down to Dizzy Di's studio to see what she had on offer.

I've ummed and ahh'd over this necklace as I can't decide whether there are too many lampwork beads in it.

I've been experimenting with mixing colours in the lentils and still have some green and white and some blue and white ones to make up.

I'm making bracelets lately and this one is made from brass jump rings bought from The Dragonfly Company.

and heres a close-up,

I saw an illustration in a bead magazine and thought I might make something similar.

The black crystals have small copper bi-cones on either side and the spacers are seed bead cubes. Here's a close-up thumbnail.