Welcome to my handmade jewelry blog. This is where I'll be showing off the jewelry I've made, and blogging about various aspects of jewelry making.

I've been making jewelry for several years now, and I love beads. I've made polymer clay jewelry in the past (note my turtle icon--I made lots of animal pendants), but I haven't been doing that for a while. I also crochet, and am obsessed with yarn as well as beads. ;) I have a crochet blog, too.

If you'd like to see some of the jewelry I've made a little less recently (some of which may still be available for sale), please visit lexscreations. A lot of the photos don't work, though, since Flickr allows only a limited amount of storage and my old web site is now defunct.

The other day, I decided to make some Bali heart chandelier earrings for Valentine's Day with red Swarovski crystals. Here they are:



After that, I got inspired! I decided to try something a little different. I'm now calling these "Valentine Earrings," both because of the timing and because the chandelier findings are heart-shaped. :)



Fair trade sterling silver and Swarovski crystals. I'd love to keep them all, but I have more earrings than I have time to wear, and I can always make more of these! I'll list some on etsy when I get around to it.

Current Mood: creative

As of tonight, I have started making...(drumroll please)...stitch markers! :) Since I'm now selling yarn in my etsy store, I figured that it would be cool to make something crochet/knitting-related. Stitch markers are the perfect way to combine my love of beads with my love of crochet.

I will have to make some for myself, too! I have a whole bunch of "extra special" beads that will probably be good for that purpose...

Haven't taken any pictures of the ones I've made yet, but I'll definitely have them by the end of this weekend, and I'll post them here when I do.

Current Mood: creative

My mom and I went out together today, and had a great time. We decided to go to Beadworks, which opened its White Plains location fairly recently. The parking situation is pretty bad--you have to park at Stop & Shop--but it could be worse, especially in downtown WP. It's a nice store. I didn't buy much--just a really pretty purple shell pendant and some monofilament for stringing "illusion" necklaces (should be good with all those Mother of Pearl "donut" beads I have), and my mom paid for them, which was kind of her. She bought a strand of gorgeous turquoise chips that she can wear as a necklace, and it looks incredible doubled and twisted with a clasp. She also bought some beads that I am going to string for her. :)

The employees were very nice and quite helpful, which makes them head and shoulders above those at Beadworks' Norwalk store, in my opinion. They were pretty rude to me over there the last time I went, so I had my misgivings about the WP store; I was pleasantly surprised today. I will have to Yelp about them.

I wasn't exactly blown away by their selection of gemstone beads or Czech beads, but they do have a lot of really nice African beads and glass beads and sead beads, and quite a bit of other stuff. I hope they will give the local Michaels and Wal-Mart a run for their money (though I know, in my heart of hearts, that it will probably be the other way around--grrrr at corporate America).