Here are a few beads representative of my newest work. I can't seem to shake my fascination with the coloured Moretti glass I use to make my "Live Long and Prosper" beads. I have also been playing around with one of James Smircich's techniques which has given me the "Identity" and "CSI" beads. Please contact me at the following e-mail if you want to talk beads:
info@preciouslittlethings.ca
I have a selection of beads at a great local bead store on Calgary's famous Red Mile, Bead Art Studio.
Bigger, matched sets and more "elaborate" art beads are available through me directly or I can bring them down to the store with a bit of notice.
If you have finished jewelry made with my beads, I would love to put your work up on a Gallery page linked to this main page so you can showcase your work. I'd be happy to link to your site or e-mail address. Please send e-mail and digital images to the linked address for Precious Little Things. I would love to see what you've made!
Although this started out as a "Live Long and Prosper" bead I couldn't help but notice between the lines there resides an impressionistic hummingbird such as Salvador Dali might imagine. SOLD
Another bead that started out as a LL&P but somehow it came out as "Mordor". I mean that in the best possible way, of course. It just looks like that to me. But there is hope in Mordor, how else could there be blue and purple without hope? $30
This boro bead makes me think of the fires that ravaged the province of British Columbia in 2003. There is the orange of the fire, the burning trees, the blue of the rivers and ocean, the smoke, the movement, the texture. Maybe only I see it but that's what the bead reminds me of. $30
***
Here is one from my interpretation of a James Smircich technique. I call it "Identity" because to me it looks like a fingerprint. Like a fingerprint, this bead is a real one-of-a-kind. It has a squashed, not-really-a-lentil shape but, for me at least, it works better to hold the "fingerprint". $20
***
Another variation on "Identity". $15
***
Here's one I call "CSI". You get the combination of fingerprint and DNA strands in this one, or at least in my imaginative mind, you do. $15
***
I am absolutely thrilled with this bracelet. I have had these purple turquoise for over a year and couldn't really figure out what to do with them. It wasn't until I got the funny little frosted beads that I had a lightbulb go off over my head. I hope you love the purple as much as I do. The lampworked beads are boro. I've called it "February" because my birthstone is amethyst. $175
***
I had a heck of a time naming this set and I am not sure I'm convinced that this is a good name for just how amazing these beads are. Each bead has a shiny, reflective, metallic background splashed with gorgeous deep red dots. They're small and relatively simple but benefit from having the unique characteristics of boro glass in their favour. $42 for the set of 6
***
Two views of "Live Long and Prosper III". This was the third in the series (how'd you guess?) I have been working at, the ones above were made after this one. In case you don't know the story, the beads are called "Live Long and Prosper" beads because when I first got on-line I ran across a fabulous tattoo of a fellow who had "Live Long and Prosper" in Vulcan script tattooed down his spine. Well, of course, there is no such thing as Vulcan script but the tattoo flowed like Sanskrit or some other beautiful writing and I always loved the idea of what that cursive design meant. $25
***
And here's a heart-breaker. I think I must have accidentally picked up a wee bit of boro frit on my work table and it is embedded on the other side of this bead. There are some cracks around the crater it formed. I think I'll make something for me to wear with it because I like how it turned out but it makes me grumpy that it is ruined. NFS
***
And here's yet another heart-breaker. There is a thermal crack on the inside of one end of this bead that I didn't notice until several days after I made and even cleaned it. I can't sell it in this condition so here's another one I will be wearing. I really like it though. This is "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds". NFS
***
Please click on the image below to send e-mail.
The beads and stones used in my work are not considered "precious" (i.e. they are not diamonds, rubies or emeralds) but, in several cases are considered to be semi-precious gems. The term "precious" is not meant to indicate the value of the stones in any way other than sentimental.
