Jewelry from the Bones pilot

Here's Bones's Angela flashing her lacy bra at an airport agent to get a quick answer. Oh and look, she's wearing a necklace. Looks like a three-strand pink and red bit, with faceted and dyed stone and glass beads knotted onto thick silk cord. A little on the mainstream side but not bad at all.

 Brennan is wearing what looks like many strands of coral glass held together by brass rings, with a large brass hamsa pendant.

Here's Angela in a romantic gold chain necklace with stone or crystal beads with a lacy-looking centerpiece with fringe coming off the bottom.

Most of what Bones wears I can't imagine ever wanting to wear, but they sure do work on her, like this chunky necklace. Possibly horn or stone nuggets, and not just one strand, but three, with a carved stone pendant off the lowest strand.

Angela's necklace here is a little blurry but it looks like another multistrand affair with a large green Venetian-style foil-lined glass square focal, with faceted glass bead fringe coming off the bottom.

Brennan's taste in jewelry even extends to her earring choice--here a sort of half-shield medallion thingy with a column-shaped dangle in stone, crystal or colored glass.

 Hard to tell exactly what Angela's got on now, but it's definitely a multistrand something, probably a mix of beads on chain, with maybe a carved stone celtic knot of some kind.

 Understated neckwear at a military funeral at Arlington Cemetery, Temperance still picks something with  character. From what I can see, it's a leather cord with maybe a curved silver tube and a small metal, stone or bone pendant.

Here she is looking stubborn and slightly stupid (it's the eyelid position in this particular shot) wearing a beaded Y necklace with plenty of stones--probably agate and carnelian, and look at that strong drop in the center. More carved stone at the bottom, of course.

Wow, they sure do wear a lot of jewelry on this show. I think it also helps communicate the passage of time.

new direction

 

I'm going to take my blog in a new, hopefully more interesting, direction, starting now. I've been noticing for some time that there's more and more interesting jewelry in the media, so I'll comment on them, and if I make something inspired by a piece, I'll post that as well.

The show Bones frequently has Dr. Brennan as well as other characters. sporting bold necklaces like the one above, I've never seen a character in a tv show wear such noticeable beaded jewelry so often before. They're important parts of her character's style. Here she's wearing what looks like an agate or wood slice with brown stained horn beads and possibly pearls.

newish work

 

Mint and teal silk ribbon with electro-dyed freshwater pearls knotted onto the length. Closes with ribbon tie. 

 

Citrine faceted chunky earrings with sterling earwires (given as Christmas gift to a new friend).

 

Loomed rainbow bracelet.

 

Beaded bead with 2 sizes of iris blue rondelle and transparent purple seed beads, giving it  an overall violet appearance.

 

Herringbone bangle in three sizes/colors of seed bead: clear violet 11s, purple-lined aqua 8s, and frosted aqua 6s.

double happiness

Last year I bought a book from Borders on sale. It as The Earring Style book by Double Happiness Jewelry's Stephanie Wells. Love it! I made a pair of double spiral hoop earrings straight from the book.

Ribbon necklaces

One of my favourite new designs is the silk ribbon wrap bracelet/necklace. The ladies at Class Act Designs commisioned this bracelet above, after seeing my Forbidden Love necklace, below.

 I embroider 15/o seed beads onto the ribbons (they may need ironing; do this with caution) around a focal bead such as this metal heart from Green Girl Studios.

 

 

When I saw this little Shiva Nataraja pendant at Tika Imports, I knew I was going to buy it. Why? Because I've been looking for one ever since reading the book 'Shiva's Fire', about a girl Parvati with the power of dance. I've looked for years for a pendant version of the dancing Shiva in his ring of flames, but only found little statuettes until the B&B show.

  

I paired the pendant with the hot pink and orange silk ribbon from Class Act Designs as befitting an Indian-inspired piece, and embroidered slanting lines in gold 15/o seed beads.

Beaded bead special post

 

Beaded bead extravaganza! These beads are self-supporting beadwoven beads made with glass, crystal, stone, mineral, and seed beads, from about 3/4 to a little over an inch in diameter. Most are round, some are more fat saucer shaped. A couple are totally different as you can see. They range from $16-25 and you can get them through BrightCircle on Artfire. A few of them are already listed but this is a photo of all my full-size beaded beads, so if you want to buy, just pick the one you want, and let me know, and I'll put up a listing just for you, at a 10% discount from the original price if you tell me you heard about it from my blog. :)

matching jewelry

 

This pattern was in an issue of Beadwork last year, and though I rarely do projects straight out of magazines, I thought, what a great idea! I want to do that! So I even ordered some beads especially for this project, and made one in blue black and green--Megamind colors (have I already blogged about this?). The center beadwork around the cabochon (a shimmerstone I made) is a little different from in the magazine, as is the method of attaching it to the 'wings' but all in all, it's the same design. I wish I could have met Mikki at the B&B show to show her, but oh well. I emailed her instead.

 

I had leftover beads, so I took the beading pattern of the ribs on the 'wings' and did it with tubular peyote instead of flat, andit turned out to be the exact right size to hold a 1ml vial of perfume! The little tube on the side of the cap does have to be cut off, but still.