Meet the Design Board!

Sometimes I get stuck when I am trying to design a new piece of jewelry and I need a little help figuring out the layout of the piece.

I have some fun leaf charms that I have been wanting to use in a necklace design for a while now and I decided that I wanted to use them as links instead of dangles. I punched a hole into the leaf ends and then I started laying them out in different ways on my design board until I found the pattern that made me the most happy.

My next post will be about what design I picked and how I finished the piece.



Design 1 - Simple, symmetric

Design 2 - Symmetric with dangle



Design 3- Simple assymetric

Design 4 - Assymetric with single dangle



Design 5 - Assymetric with double dangle

Design 6 - Not so simple assymetric.

More Fun Things at the Rings & Things Bead Show

I had a chance today to run over to McClellan and check out the Rings & Things Bead Tour for a short while today and I picked up a few things I had been needing (more about that in a sec). While I was there I ran into some of my jewelry buddies from the Midtown Bazaar! Steven from New Old Jewelry was there as were North and Sharon of Jewelry by North, and it was a first time for all of them!

So, what did I get you might ask; well, lemme tell you!

I got four packets of Crystal Jams, which are a 1 gross (144 pieces) mix of 4mm Swarovski xillions and bicones in complimentary color themes AND they all have cute names too! They are $12.00 per packet (which works out to $.08 per bead-CHEAP!).

I got (from L to R, top row) Walking on Sunshine and True Colors and (from L to R, bottom row) Jailhouse Rock and I Knew the Bride

I also got these cool, copper gears and sprockets. $4.10 for a dozen pieces per style ($.34 per each).

The style are Gear, Gear Outline and Sprocket

And last but not least, I picked up these beautiful, faceted smoky quartz beads. Here is why going to the R & T Bead Tour shows is such a great thing...These beads are 50% off the ticketed price and then another 15% off on top of that! So the 6mm faceted rounds are tagged at $23.00, so that means I got the strand for $9.78! The 16x20mm ovals are tagged $32.5o; I paid $13.81!


While I was there, I also got to meet Dave Robertson of Rings & Things (he is in charge of us blog partners). He was really nice and we had out picture taken and he will post that on the Rings & Things Blog! Look for it!