Beading Frenzy

I've written about this a long time ago,  but a few years ago I found the perfect storm of hobbies for me - combining my love of color from make up and my love of small sugary tempting things from sweets - beads!  I love beads,  the potential that each bead has to create something amazing.  And this week,  I went on a beading frenzy,  creating 4 beautiful (imho) necklaces,  using my beads for the first time this year (very bad!)  When ever I go to a beading show (there are 2 of them a year in nyc) I shop very carefully,  making sure I don't go crazy, and when ever I get home,  I wonder why I didn't let myself buy more!  So here are some not great photos of my work this week:

this one is my current favorite, a nd took forever!  I think I worked on it for over 4 hours  but I'm very happy with it.

these are honey colored pearls, which make a very dramatic collar necklace

these are all very soft pink shades which the camera kind of washed out,  but looks very feminine and pretty.

and these are a gorgeous lavender blue rondell, with Italian glass accent beads.  I'm sorry the color didn't come out so well in these pictures!

and finally this is the one DS designed and strung,  very classic.

I also photographed some older stuff that I have made,  but I'll put them up another day,  the computer is being tricky and doesn't appear to like having so many images uploaded...

But busy and productive times!