This week's adventures and achievements

I went for a beautiful, if somewhat scarey bushwalk up the escarpment near Wollongong.

Actually going up was OK, it was coming back down that was bad for me - I was petrified I was going to slip again.

path along the escarpment

view to the north from Sublime Point

view to the south from Sublime Point

Anyway all was well and I was able to do another couple of small walks on Tuesday to some small waterfalls in the mid Blue Mountains towns of Hazelbrook and Woodford.

transit of venus track at Woodford

horseshoe falls at North Hazelbrook

And I made ten bright bracelets -


What did you do this week?

What I made this week

These unique bracelets using spectacular handmade lampwork beads from a Sydney glass artist.

What I made this week

another collection of my most popular bracelets and a necklace to match.

carnival necklace and bracelets

Bracelets

'ringing bells of oranges and lemons'


'the moon's purple night'



'heralding the freshness of spring'



'into the dreamy spring'





Lovely lampwork glass beads by my fave glass artists.
Every bead is different and I love making them into bracelets.

Some new pieces for the new year

Everybody else was back at work, so it was time for me to do some more creating.

But what?
Where to start?

I have so many ideas going round in my head, so many beads to use and a market this sunday!

I need to make necklaces and earrings and bracelets!

So I started small with some cute little czech glass beads I found just before Christmas.

Little chuck converse sneakers!

After rummaging through my bead boxes I found half strands and part strands of beads, not enough for a necklace, but how about a bracelet?

and instead of stringing in a repeating pattern, how about grouping them.

Desert Oasis Bracelet

Sand and Sea Bracelet

then because I always have many odd beads

Earth Bracelet

inspired by the colours of the earth.

What to do with one sizeable chunk of yellow opal?
Exotic Journey Bracelet

combine it with pearls and Swarovski Crystal, and some Bali spacers.

If you had to go collect all these yourself, it would be an incredible exotic journey.
I wish I could go on that journey.

But for now I just have to do some more creating.