Pearl and Gold Jewelry

Well, not real pearls and gold but glass pearls, white luster seed beads, and silver lined amber seed beads. The amber beads really shine like a metallic bead without the worry of the finish wearing off. I also made myself a set, I really like the Victorian look of it.

http://www.mkmcreations.com/jewelry.html

Rose Mini - Time lapse acrylic painting

More Flower Earrings and a Bracelet

I got a couple more colours of Preciosa twin beads and made more of these flower earrings. I really like the pair I made for myself in red, they are quite light.

The inspiration for this bracelet came from the button I happened to find which was very close in colour to the large beads. This bracelet is quite weighty but I think it would be fun to wear, like big chunks of ice around your wrist.

My Dragons

Many years ago I painted a couple of dragons on the computer and then decided to make an illustrated book with them. I haven't worked on it very regularly though, so it still is not done. And then I had a big setback when my computer crashed in the fall.  I was behind on backing things up and lost a few pages.

Over the last few months I have been redoing what I lost, and reviewing the previous pages I had finished, discovering changes that had not been backed up and had to be done again. I'm finally caught up and I got one more page done. I plan on doing four more pages for the book. For anyone not familiar with digital painting, you might think it is fast and easy, but it is not. The way I paint these pictures takes a long time so I hope to get the last four pages done by fall. Plus, I like to take my acrylics out once in a while too.

Here are a few crops for a peek at what I have been doing:

Purple, Purple, and Red

You might have noticed that I like purple. Here are two more items I have added to my website.

I also like red, and the Cellini spiral stitch. Making a bracelet takes a very long time but earrings are much quicker. I hope to do more, but with the weather warming up I'm already finding less time for beading.

Ice and Rose

I added two new bracelets to my site today, both featuring interesting buttons I found. All the button collecting I used to do is paying off now as they make really pretty clasps for bracelets.

http://www.mkmcreations.com/icebracelet.html

 http://www.mkmcreations.com/whiteroselatticebracelet.html