Free Poppy Cap Tutorial

Pop on over to Happy Mango Beads and check out a free tutorial (by me!) on how to make simple poppy caps for a variety of beads--no sawing or soldering!

Blueberry poppies

I've used Happy Mango's wonderful Indonesian lampwork discs, and Indonesian seed beads for these (except for the last pair--those purple seed beads are "glass tile beads" from Fire Mountain).

Green Bean Poppies

And I've used some of my new photo props below--an iron shoe horn and old sheet music:

Grape Poppies

Irish Waxed Linen cording from White Clover Kiln.

Here Comes That Autumnal Feeling Again

Funny how that happens every year. Around this time. Although it's hardly autumnal here now, we have a week of solid sunshine and 80+ temps forecast. I love it! Going to stock up on Vitamin D for the long, gray, dreary winter months ahead. However, in honor of the glorious week and-a-half that is autumn in northwest Montana, I created these two necklaces.

This one featuring a handmade ceramic button in sage green:

Maples and Evergreens

(The green is much more olive than the pictures suggest--cloudless skies seem to put a blue cast on everything. I'm thinking I need to try diffused, direct sunlight rather than taking the pictures in the shade.)

This one is all metal, which I've been intending to do for a while. Had a nice assortment of stamped bowls done up.

Well I think I'll sign off. My new monitor is acting up just like the old one. SH!T. I guess it's the CPU.