Snow in Los Angeles

After a week of rain and snow, our local mountains look lovely with a snow coating.

In between the storms, we enjoyed an afternoon at the Arboretum in perfect weather.

Susanne's beaded bead

Last spring while I was in Frankfurt, Susanne gave me a beaded bead as a going away present.

It took me the rest of the year to make a crocheted rope and a nice bail (slider) to hang this bead from. The results were worth waiting for.

I have worn it many times already.

deco lotus earrings

I had two glass bead drops, so I made these earrings from Beadwork Oct 2009 issue.
I changed the 8/0 beads in the instructions to 3 mm teal vitrail fire polished beads. 8/0 beads really looked clunky.

I used the pictures in the article to make them. The word instructions were really unclear and went in a strange order too.

Earrings

I got two wonderful beaded beads from my friends Nicki and Ricki in (Australia. NO!) AUSTRIA. This was to go with the 13 other beaded beads that came from Germany.
These two were very alike in color and really unlike all the others. So I made earrings out of them.

Sorry about the blur. I'll try to get a better photo. Here is the better photo so you can see how lovely these Austrian earrings are!

I think the star bead is Nicki's?

I posted some photos of the Rose Parade Floats from January 22, 2010. Here is a link to the slide show.
http://picasaweb.google.com/turmaline1/Rose_Parade_Floats2010?feat=email#

Sylvia

Beaded bead necklace

I get an F for photography in this case. But I have sent it off. This is the only photo I ended up with.

Better pictures for this piece are in Dulcey's blog.

I have always loved making beaded beads. They are so satisfying to make because they do not take forever and are so pretty.

Knitted beaded ball necklace

I made a new necklace. Knitted out of fingering yarn with size 1 needles, it has beaded stripes and includes 16 mm wooden balls which I had painted with gold paint.

This was in Knitter's magazine December 2008. It took me until now to knit it because it was hard to find size 1 double pointed needles in L.A. Once I got started, it was not too long nor hard to finish. It's 9 stitches around and uses double pointed needles. It was very awkward to knit with 3 stitches per needle; needles kept coming off the stitches. My solution was to put 5 stitches on 1 needle and 4 on the next and knit with a third. Unfortunately, 9 stitches is too wide to knit on two needles. It leaves a bad gap where you slide the stitches over.

It weighs nothing and I really like wearing it.