Please feel free to contact me, anytime, for questions or comments.
I'll probably be working in my studio!!
erin@simonetti.com
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"Finger Rings"
I once owned a 'finger armor' ring, a Gothic design, created of metal and hinged to accomadate each knuckle. This look gives such a pressence and I loved it!
Enjoying beads, as I do, I decided to make a pattern of one for me to recreate the same design, but wearable, including a patented 'beaded hinge'.
This was a feat, at first, but with some further considerations, I found the best way to create the entire ring out of seed beads!
This is patterned with 'diamond cut outs' on the lower band, filled with 2mm Swarovski Crystals. The entire ring is woven with 11/0 Delica Glass Beads and trimmed with Toho 11/0 Permatnent Mettalic Gold Glass Beads.
Each view, of this 'Finger Ring', above, shows how comfortable it is to wear!
I also included a 3D flower, with a Swarovski Crystal center. I created the pattern, for these petals, which can be used to create other beaded pieces of jewelry, as seen in my 'Coffee Shop'.
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"In Shades of London Blue"
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My next 'finger ring' was highlighted using a 16mm, Brandy Color Rivoli. 11/0 Delicas in colors of Zircon, Aqua, Bronze and Matt Lined Golds. Notice the added trimming, on top of the lowest band and around the center of the top banding, using 15/0 Aqua Japanese Glass Beads.
Trimming was completed using 11/0 ToHo Permanent Silver Mettalic Seed Beads.
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I am working on a written tutorial, so I share how to create this type of ring.
It will include my 'patented beaded hinge' idea!
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Below are selections of pieces, which I include 'custom lampwork glass art'! |
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"Teal & Gold Glass Seed Beads with Crystal Swarovski AB, Beaded Beads, 3-D Beaded Bead in Center above Lampwork Teal Rose Drop finished with Teal Lampwork Pillows, in neckband.
Necklace and Wrist Corsage"
"Monarch Butterfly and Cobalt Lampwork
Necklace and Wrist Corsage"
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"Purple, Black, White, Gold Lampwork and Beaded Beads!
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I beaded wooden beads to the colors of my "favorite"
football team, The Baltimore Ravens. To complete this necklace,
I contacted a 'Lampwork Artist', presently living in Germany, Teresa Laliberte',
and requested a set of lampwork beads to match what I have created. She was "right"
on the money, in every detail. Here work is wonderful and worth a trip to her website:
www.lavendercreek.de
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"Tulip Necklace"
Tulips can be a very simple flower.
Therefore, I wanted to make the pattern delicate.
The multiple strands, pictured, are small woven beads in a flower pattern. |
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"Pink Dogwood"
This necklace is titled, "Pink Dogwood Necklace".
The necklace base is loomed with 11/0 Delicas, as well as the leaves. The flower petals are also loomed, with Antique Glass 11/0 beads, in a matte, muted pink. The abundant fringe was strung using Swarovski Crystals and glass seed beads, on Fireline, to handle the weight if multiple strands. The gold Japanese beaded bead, was added as the flower's center, hand woven using metallic 'petit' glass beads, 15/0. Bronze glass daggers circle the center 'beaded bead'.
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If you have any questions about my beadwork
or art, e-mail Me!!
erin@simonetti.com
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