One of my favorite pieces - Ruffles on a Spring Day - has made its way onto the Etsy Front Page this afternoon, via J. D. Wolfe's treasury.
What a great way to end a wonderful month! Thank you! :D
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Leap Year Sale!
Since it's February 29th and I live in the Leap Year Capital of the
World, it seems only appropriate that I offer the following deal:
(This does not include shipping and no other coupon codes can be used.) Yup. That's pretty much as good as it gets around here. The 3 for 2 Pattern Program is still in effect. Valid on any order received before midnight my time (2am Etsy/Eastern time).
Any
order over $100
will receive a 29% refund.
(This does not include shipping and no other coupon codes can be used.) Yup. That's pretty much as good as it gets around here. The 3 for 2 Pattern Program is still in effect. Valid on any order received before midnight my time (2am Etsy/Eastern time).
Have a great extra day!
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
It's Party Time! Sand Fibers 6th Etsy-versary! HUGE Announcement!
Six wonderful years on Etsy! You bet I'm celebrating.
Earlier in the month, I posted about some business changes I have made, changes that I hoped would keep Sand Fibers moving in the waters of commerce. Well, there are many more on the horizon, not the least of which is the new Sand Fibers logo that Chris of Goodquill Hunting and I developed in hours of brainstorming and designing via phone and email. It's amazing how much work it can take to "keep things simple." I love this and hope that you will as well:
I really really wanted to roll everything out by March 1, but business got in the way. Seriously. February 2012 will go down as best month for jewelry sales at Sand Fibers to date. The only problem with that is that almost everything I've sold is "made-to-order," which means that it has to be beaded, by me, myself, and I. What a horrible problem to have! I wanted to bead and the universe listened. LOL
What this means is that I do not have the time to modify over 80 pattern files and 80 listings on Etsy in order to do what I wanted to today: To announce that
Every last one of them. Even if your copy says it's "for personal use only." Happy Sand Fibers Etsy-versary to me and to you!
When I finally get everything edited, the patterns and the listings will all have the following licensing statement:
By purchasing this pattern, you agree to the following conditions:
● to credit either Sand Fibers or Carol Dean Sharpe with the design (or derivative) in any listing/photograph/posting
● to credit either Sand Fibers or Carol Dean Sharpe when selling an item (or derivative) made from this pattern off-line;
● to sell any work made and sold from the pattern ONLY if you yourself hand-created the piece (in other words, no mass production);
● to NOT resell or distribute (for free or for pay) or teach (for free or for pay) the pattern or any part of the pattern in any format, through any media.
Purchase of this pattern in no way implies purchase or transfer of the copyright for either the pattern or the design itself which shall remain with Sand Fibers/Carol Dean Sharpe. Thank you for supporting your pattern designer's rights!
©2012 Carol Dean Sharpe/Sand Fibers. All Rights Reserved.
Effective IMMEDIATELY, please consider any Sand Fibers pattern you have purchased from me to carry that license. Also, effective IMMEDIATELY, please consider any Sand Fibers pattern that you will purchase that still has "for personal use only" wording in the listing and/or in the pattern itself to carry this license. As I revise the pattern file itself for each design, I will be raising the cost of the pattern by approximately one third.
The Sand Fibers 3 for 2 Pattern Program will remain in effect.
Those of you who have purchased "for personal and commercial use" editions of Sand Fibers patterns will receive credit toward the purchase of more patterns. I will contact you individually once I have made the full shift to this new system. If you want to purchase something before then, please contact me prior to your purchase and I will work out your credit. This does not apply to patterns that were never issued as "for personal use only" editions: Blooming Beads Volume One, Elegant Enchantment, Ruffles, and The Tocadora.
So what does this mean to you? Any pattern you buy at Sand Fibers between now and the time I get the pattern file edited will be at the current lower pricing but will carry the new "for personal/commercial use" license. The pricing on patterns will change as I get the files themselves edited (and I am NOT sharing what order I will edit them in).
Many of you have commented that you enjoy finding out about the "why" behind my decisions. I don't do these things willy-nilly, I promise. When I first started offering patterns of my designs, I was determined not to create competition for myself as a seller of beaded jewelry...and so I insisted that my patterns were meant for personal use only. Absolutely no selling. Then I caved and offered patterns for commercial use as long as the item was priced no lower than what I sold it for on Etsy. Then I dropped the pricing restrictions.
And now, well, now I am comfortable enough with both my reputation and goals as a designer/beader to tell the control freak in me to "hush up!" Getting to this point has taken me years and more soul-searching than I care to share (yes, even I have sharing limits). I'm just glad I got here.
It will be so much easier on my schedule and kinder to my emotional energy to say "You bought the pattern? Great. Yes, please do make items for sale from it! I wish you many sales."
And now that I've bored you to tears once again, be well and get going!
Earlier in the month, I posted about some business changes I have made, changes that I hoped would keep Sand Fibers moving in the waters of commerce. Well, there are many more on the horizon, not the least of which is the new Sand Fibers logo that Chris of Goodquill Hunting and I developed in hours of brainstorming and designing via phone and email. It's amazing how much work it can take to "keep things simple." I love this and hope that you will as well:
I really really wanted to roll everything out by March 1, but business got in the way. Seriously. February 2012 will go down as best month for jewelry sales at Sand Fibers to date. The only problem with that is that almost everything I've sold is "made-to-order," which means that it has to be beaded, by me, myself, and I. What a horrible problem to have! I wanted to bead and the universe listened. LOL
What this means is that I do not have the time to modify over 80 pattern files and 80 listings on Etsy in order to do what I wanted to today: To announce that
ALL patterns at Sand Fibers are now
"for personal/commercial use."
Every last one of them. Even if your copy says it's "for personal use only." Happy Sand Fibers Etsy-versary to me and to you!
When I finally get everything edited, the patterns and the listings will all have the following licensing statement:
By purchasing this pattern, you agree to the following conditions:
● to credit either Sand Fibers or Carol Dean Sharpe with the design (or derivative) in any listing/photograph/posting
● to credit either Sand Fibers or Carol Dean Sharpe when selling an item (or derivative) made from this pattern off-line;
● to sell any work made and sold from the pattern ONLY if you yourself hand-created the piece (in other words, no mass production);
● to NOT resell or distribute (for free or for pay) or teach (for free or for pay) the pattern or any part of the pattern in any format, through any media.
Purchase of this pattern in no way implies purchase or transfer of the copyright for either the pattern or the design itself which shall remain with Sand Fibers/Carol Dean Sharpe. Thank you for supporting your pattern designer's rights!
©2012 Carol Dean Sharpe/Sand Fibers. All Rights Reserved.
Effective IMMEDIATELY, please consider any Sand Fibers pattern you have purchased from me to carry that license. Also, effective IMMEDIATELY, please consider any Sand Fibers pattern that you will purchase that still has "for personal use only" wording in the listing and/or in the pattern itself to carry this license. As I revise the pattern file itself for each design, I will be raising the cost of the pattern by approximately one third.
The Sand Fibers 3 for 2 Pattern Program will remain in effect.
Those of you who have purchased "for personal and commercial use" editions of Sand Fibers patterns will receive credit toward the purchase of more patterns. I will contact you individually once I have made the full shift to this new system. If you want to purchase something before then, please contact me prior to your purchase and I will work out your credit. This does not apply to patterns that were never issued as "for personal use only" editions: Blooming Beads Volume One, Elegant Enchantment, Ruffles, and The Tocadora.
So what does this mean to you? Any pattern you buy at Sand Fibers between now and the time I get the pattern file edited will be at the current lower pricing but will carry the new "for personal/commercial use" license. The pricing on patterns will change as I get the files themselves edited (and I am NOT sharing what order I will edit them in).
Many of you have commented that you enjoy finding out about the "why" behind my decisions. I don't do these things willy-nilly, I promise. When I first started offering patterns of my designs, I was determined not to create competition for myself as a seller of beaded jewelry...and so I insisted that my patterns were meant for personal use only. Absolutely no selling. Then I caved and offered patterns for commercial use as long as the item was priced no lower than what I sold it for on Etsy. Then I dropped the pricing restrictions.
And now, well, now I am comfortable enough with both my reputation and goals as a designer/beader to tell the control freak in me to "hush up!" Getting to this point has taken me years and more soul-searching than I care to share (yes, even I have sharing limits). I'm just glad I got here.
It will be so much easier on my schedule and kinder to my emotional energy to say "You bought the pattern? Great. Yes, please do make items for sale from it! I wish you many sales."
And now that I've bored you to tears once again, be well and get going!
Friday, February 24, 2012
Artisan Clay Design Team - February Challenge
How can it be the last Friday of the month already?! Only by a small miracle did I manage to get my entry in this second to last Artisan Clay Design Team challenge done.
When Kristie sent me my surprise beads for this month, I almost panicked. The package contained this set of her wonderful charms. Charms that would be perfect for earrings, which I just really don't make very often. Not often, at all.
Of course the charms, unlike the above photo of them, were in color - beautiful blue glass and ceramic. And it was blue glass I recognized instantly as that used in an Artisan Clay donut I have been hoarding for some time. And since I love working in 3's, I knew that, whatever I ended up making, would have to include that donut as well. As you can see, the three beads work nicely together.
For the bezels and the bead embroidery I used a great mix of seed beads called Navajo cooked up by the wonderful folks at Whimbeads.com. My friend Jennifer van Benschoten had shown off some of the mixes she got at their booth in Tucson this year, and I could not resist, knowing fully I would find a home for them, just not knowing that it would be so quite this soon.
Now what? Well, I found the perfect turquoise background for this medallion:
What is it? A fantastic small felt clutch purse. It's only 4" x 5.75" but will hold your phone, credit card/ID, and keys for that special night out. I'm thinking of beading a brick stitch band with the Navajo mix to attach to the zipper so that it can morph into a wristlet. Right now, I'm just pleased to be able to show this to you.

I hope Kristie likes it. ;) You can follow the links below to check out what the other members of the design team has made with their challenge beads!
Now be well and get going! Have a lovely weekend!
Update (Saturday, February 25th): Last night, I removed the zipper pull and replaced it with a split ring...to which I added a brick-stitch beaded strap. We now have a wristlet, named The Lynn (after Melissa Lynn Freed, whose eyes were pools of blue and whose birthday would have been yesterday). And, of course, it's up in the shop. ;)
Of course the charms, unlike the above photo of them, were in color - beautiful blue glass and ceramic. And it was blue glass I recognized instantly as that used in an Artisan Clay donut I have been hoarding for some time. And since I love working in 3's, I knew that, whatever I ended up making, would have to include that donut as well. As you can see, the three beads work nicely together.
For the bezels and the bead embroidery I used a great mix of seed beads called Navajo cooked up by the wonderful folks at Whimbeads.com. My friend Jennifer van Benschoten had shown off some of the mixes she got at their booth in Tucson this year, and I could not resist, knowing fully I would find a home for them, just not knowing that it would be so quite this soon.
Now what? Well, I found the perfect turquoise background for this medallion:
What is it? A fantastic small felt clutch purse. It's only 4" x 5.75" but will hold your phone, credit card/ID, and keys for that special night out. I'm thinking of beading a brick stitch band with the Navajo mix to attach to the zipper so that it can morph into a wristlet. Right now, I'm just pleased to be able to show this to you.
I hope Kristie likes it. ;) You can follow the links below to check out what the other members of the design team has made with their challenge beads!
Now be well and get going! Have a lovely weekend!
Update (Saturday, February 25th): Last night, I removed the zipper pull and replaced it with a split ring...to which I added a brick-stitch beaded strap. We now have a wristlet, named The Lynn (after Melissa Lynn Freed, whose eyes were pools of blue and whose birthday would have been yesterday). And, of course, it's up in the shop. ;)
Saturday, February 11, 2012
What do sharks and business have in common? They die if they don't keep moving.
I may have had my doubts about that until last summer but then my own story showed me how apt the analogy really is. Sand Fibers came to what felt like a screeching halt when the slipped disc in my neck decided it was a good idea to pinch on a nerve, making it difficult - sometimes even impossible - for me to bead. Because I couldn't bead, I couldn't publish new patterns - because I stubbornly refused publish a pattern before it had been beaded, beaded by me, myself, and I. Because I couldn't bead, I had to pull most of my made-to-order listings out of the shop.
What had started out as a banner year for the business, far surpassing all goals I had set for it in the first seven months by exceeding the sales for all of 2009, ended up with what sounded like a whimper to my ears, barely making 85% of 2010's sales. A healthy business is supposed to grow, not shrink.
Talk about depressing. I learned an important lesson from this: entirely too much of my self-image had been vested in Sand Fibers' success. It's great when Sand Fibers can bring joy into my life, but I cannot and will not allow it to "bring me down."
My neck has slowly been improving (I see a neurosurgeon in two weeks to discuss permanent solutions), and my January sales actually exceeded those of last July when the "fall" started. I'm hoping t this means Sand Fibers is moving again!
I have a two-part business: I am designer who sells her patterns(/kits?) and I am a bead artist who sells her jewelry. I have never stopped designing, but I find myself unable to publish new patterns because, in bad times, I am physically unable to bead the prototype or paradoxically, in good times, I don't have the time to bead them because I have too many jewelry orders to get out.
The pattern part of my business is most definitely my greater source of revenue. The beading part of the business, on the other hand, is most certainly my greater source of joy. (We will not discuss the actual "business" part of my business. Let's just say that I'm very thankful that I do have strong left-brain tendencies, esp. for an artist.)
Having a two part business means that I have two different customers with different needs. First, there are the lovely beaders who buy my patterns. They want patterns that are a joy (sometimes a challenge) to bead. They are attracted to the graphic nature of my designs. Second, there are those who come to Sand Fibers looking to buy jewelry. These customers are often attracted to quite different designs than are beaders.
And this is where my dilemma (for lack of a better word) begins: Do I spend the limited time and energy that I have on beading up my designs for patterns - so that I can offer beaders the new products they crave- or do I spend that time creating pieces that my jewelry-buying customers will enjoy and buy. My best-selling patterns are (with a few exceptions, notably the Ripples and Corrugated pieces) NOT my best-selling jewelry pieces. This past year has shown me that I can no longer do both. But I am not willing to relinquish either aspect of Sand Fibers. Nope. I wanna have my cake and eat it to.
Many designers figured this out some time ago: they have bead fairies or bead angels or test beaders. I tend to have to learn my lessons the hard way, on my own. Several wonderful friends and customers have offered for some time to help me with this task, but I stubbornly declined believing that I had to it all myself. Turns out, I was wrong. So...that explains why I now have a handful of talented Sand Fibers Beta Beaders working on beading up patterns that have been languishing away in my pattern program for a very long time. Why am I explaining this again, you may ask. Because I don't know that I shared enough of the WHY of this change with you when I showed you Hearts Play earlier in the week. I think this will be a positive change for both me and my beading customers. I hope you agree.
So that's a good change. A change that will effect my jewelry-buying customers is also in the works. For the last year I have offered free domestic and international shipping for everything but my bead kits. Last night, I placed an order for more jewelry boxes (which I buy in bulk) and was startled to realize that in packaging alone - jewelry box, extra cotton liner, ribbon, mailer, tape, ink, paper - I am spending considerably more than I had let myself assume. The prices for everything have gone up, including actual postage.
And so, it is with regret, that I will begin charging for shipping again, effective Monday morning. I didn't want you to be surprised. I could have just increased the item prices by that amount, but that didn't seem right.
Thank you for rambling through this post with me.
Have a wonderful weekend. Be well and get going!
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whale shark
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I may have had my doubts about that until last summer but then my own story showed me how apt the analogy really is. Sand Fibers came to what felt like a screeching halt when the slipped disc in my neck decided it was a good idea to pinch on a nerve, making it difficult - sometimes even impossible - for me to bead. Because I couldn't bead, I couldn't publish new patterns - because I stubbornly refused publish a pattern before it had been beaded, beaded by me, myself, and I. Because I couldn't bead, I had to pull most of my made-to-order listings out of the shop.
What had started out as a banner year for the business, far surpassing all goals I had set for it in the first seven months by exceeding the sales for all of 2009, ended up with what sounded like a whimper to my ears, barely making 85% of 2010's sales. A healthy business is supposed to grow, not shrink.
Talk about depressing. I learned an important lesson from this: entirely too much of my self-image had been vested in Sand Fibers' success. It's great when Sand Fibers can bring joy into my life, but I cannot and will not allow it to "bring me down."
My neck has slowly been improving (I see a neurosurgeon in two weeks to discuss permanent solutions), and my January sales actually exceeded those of last July when the "fall" started. I'm hoping t this means Sand Fibers is moving again!
I have a two-part business: I am designer who sells her patterns(/kits?) and I am a bead artist who sells her jewelry. I have never stopped designing, but I find myself unable to publish new patterns because, in bad times, I am physically unable to bead the prototype or paradoxically, in good times, I don't have the time to bead them because I have too many jewelry orders to get out.
The pattern part of my business is most definitely my greater source of revenue. The beading part of the business, on the other hand, is most certainly my greater source of joy. (We will not discuss the actual "business" part of my business. Let's just say that I'm very thankful that I do have strong left-brain tendencies, esp. for an artist.)
Having a two part business means that I have two different customers with different needs. First, there are the lovely beaders who buy my patterns. They want patterns that are a joy (sometimes a challenge) to bead. They are attracted to the graphic nature of my designs. Second, there are those who come to Sand Fibers looking to buy jewelry. These customers are often attracted to quite different designs than are beaders.
And this is where my dilemma (for lack of a better word) begins: Do I spend the limited time and energy that I have on beading up my designs for patterns - so that I can offer beaders the new products they crave- or do I spend that time creating pieces that my jewelry-buying customers will enjoy and buy. My best-selling patterns are (with a few exceptions, notably the Ripples and Corrugated pieces) NOT my best-selling jewelry pieces. This past year has shown me that I can no longer do both. But I am not willing to relinquish either aspect of Sand Fibers. Nope. I wanna have my cake and eat it to.
Many designers figured this out some time ago: they have bead fairies or bead angels or test beaders. I tend to have to learn my lessons the hard way, on my own. Several wonderful friends and customers have offered for some time to help me with this task, but I stubbornly declined believing that I had to it all myself. Turns out, I was wrong. So...that explains why I now have a handful of talented Sand Fibers Beta Beaders working on beading up patterns that have been languishing away in my pattern program for a very long time. Why am I explaining this again, you may ask. Because I don't know that I shared enough of the WHY of this change with you when I showed you Hearts Play earlier in the week. I think this will be a positive change for both me and my beading customers. I hope you agree.
So that's a good change. A change that will effect my jewelry-buying customers is also in the works. For the last year I have offered free domestic and international shipping for everything but my bead kits. Last night, I placed an order for more jewelry boxes (which I buy in bulk) and was startled to realize that in packaging alone - jewelry box, extra cotton liner, ribbon, mailer, tape, ink, paper - I am spending considerably more than I had let myself assume. The prices for everything have gone up, including actual postage.
And so, it is with regret, that I will begin charging for shipping again, effective Monday morning. I didn't want you to be surprised. I could have just increased the item prices by that amount, but that didn't seem right.
Thank you for rambling through this post with me.
Have a wonderful weekend. Be well and get going!
Friday, February 10, 2012
It's been over a week...
Yes, it's been over a week since I received the great news and I still haven't blogged about it. What's wrong with me? (I'd prefer you not answer that, btw.)
Last Wednesday I received notice from Lark Jewelry and Beading that all three of my submissions for their Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry: Photographs of Beautiful Contemporary Beadwork (500 Series) had been accepted. I was so excited that I forgot to blog about it.
I haven't seen a book in Lark's 500 Series yet that I haven't loved...so this has me on the proverbial top of my world. Not only is it my first appearance in a beading book, it is in a book that has already made it to the top spot on Amazon.com's jewelry and beading bestseller lists this morning...six months before its official release.
Even more exciting for everyone is that the pre-order price is now a very affordable $16.30, instead of the listed price of $27.95. That's quite a deal on what promises to be an excellent publication.
Be well and get going, my friends!
Last Wednesday I received notice from Lark Jewelry and Beading that all three of my submissions for their Showcase 500 Beaded Jewelry: Photographs of Beautiful Contemporary Beadwork (500 Series) had been accepted. I was so excited that I forgot to blog about it.
I haven't seen a book in Lark's 500 Series yet that I haven't loved...so this has me on the proverbial top of my world. Not only is it my first appearance in a beading book, it is in a book that has already made it to the top spot on Amazon.com's jewelry and beading bestseller lists this morning...six months before its official release.
Even more exciting for everyone is that the pre-order price is now a very affordable $16.30, instead of the listed price of $27.95. That's quite a deal on what promises to be an excellent publication.
Be well and get going, my friends!
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Introducing Hearts Play - Just in time for Valentine's!
Hi there! :) I'm excited today, not just because I have a new design to share with you but also - and more importantly - because I've made some changes to how I get patterns for my designs published.
So, here's "Hearts Play":
Since my first published pattern, I have been determined NOT to publish patterns that haven't been beadwoven "into reality" to test both the flow of the graph and verify that the bead colors actually do work together well on more than the computer screen graphic generated in a pattern program. Until now, I have always been the one to "test" the pattern.
As you can see on the above photograph, I did not bead the pictured cuff. I designed and graphed the pattern. The lovely Alicia M. Hartley - the first Sand Fibers Beta Beader - beaded it up with beads I provided and then sent the beaded piece to me for photographs (after which I returned the cuff to her). It worked without a hitch and with fantastic results,
The Sand Fibers Beta Beaders will now allow me to publish the patterns I do not have the time (or physical wherewithal) to bead myself, making my patterns available to you much sooner and taking a huge weight off my aching shoulders. Sometimes a change in a business model is a very positive move.
The pattern for Hearts Play is now available in my Etsy shop:
Since my first published pattern, I have been determined NOT to publish patterns that haven't been beadwoven "into reality" to test both the flow of the graph and verify that the bead colors actually do work together well on more than the computer screen graphic generated in a pattern program. Until now, I have always been the one to "test" the pattern.
As you can see on the above photograph, I did not bead the pictured cuff. I designed and graphed the pattern. The lovely Alicia M. Hartley - the first Sand Fibers Beta Beader - beaded it up with beads I provided and then sent the beaded piece to me for photographs (after which I returned the cuff to her). It worked without a hitch and with fantastic results,
The Sand Fibers Beta Beaders will now allow me to publish the patterns I do not have the time (or physical wherewithal) to bead myself, making my patterns available to you much sooner and taking a huge weight off my aching shoulders. Sometimes a change in a business model is a very positive move.
The pattern for Hearts Play is now available in my Etsy shop:
I'm publishing it as a "for personal/commercial use" edition, but at a cost much closer to my "for personal use only" editions. Take a look! ;) There's still time to make this for your Valentine's Date next week!
Be well and get going!
Friday, January 27, 2012
Artisan Clay Design Team - January Challenge
I was so excited when Kristie announced that she was bringing the Artisan Clay Design Team back for a few more challenges this year. For January, she decided to surprise us. Each team member was sent one of these beautiful beads.
I figured I could work well with anything but those sweet little hearts but was, to be honest, thrilled to receive the donut in the lower left corner.
I pulled out the colors I wanted to work with from - sit down, Sand Fibers is working with what might qualify as bling! - my stash of fire polished beads and then added supporting seed beads to pull everything together. Reversing my usual working order (focal, THEN rope) because I had no clue what treatment I would give the donut itself, I created a (spiral) tubular right-angle-weave rope with a magnetic closure. Then, yesterday morning, I was forced to make a decision. Rather than go with "only" a bail, I decided to bead the donut a bezel with more of those fire polished beauties. Only after that did I add the equally blingy bail.
This necklace refuses to photograph well (read: the photographer doesn't know what she's doing) and this is as good a photograph as I could get last night. I'll try for some better ones before I list this. It also does not have a name yet...but I think "Spring" needs be in there somewhere, don't you?
Update: New photos.
And it just occurred to me how much fun the new necklace would be when worn with this older Sand Fibers design:
I'm excited to see what the rest of the team created this time around. Click the picture links ot see what our design team has made with this month's challenge beads!
Be well and get going!
| Beads and Photography by Kristie Roeder of Artisan Clay. |
I pulled out the colors I wanted to work with from - sit down, Sand Fibers is working with what might qualify as bling! - my stash of fire polished beads and then added supporting seed beads to pull everything together. Reversing my usual working order (focal, THEN rope) because I had no clue what treatment I would give the donut itself, I created a (spiral) tubular right-angle-weave rope with a magnetic closure. Then, yesterday morning, I was forced to make a decision. Rather than go with "only" a bail, I decided to bead the donut a bezel with more of those fire polished beauties. Only after that did I add the equally blingy bail.
| Necklace and Photograph by Carol Dean Sharpe of Sand Fibers. All rights reserved. |
Update: New photos.
| Necklace and Photograph by Carol Dean Sharpe of Sand Fibers. All rights reserved. |
| Necklace and Photograph by Carol Dean Sharpe of Sand Fibers. All rights reserved. |
| Necklace and Photograph by Carol Dean Sharpe of Sand Fibers. All rights reserved. |
And it just occurred to me how much fun the new necklace would be when worn with this older Sand Fibers design:
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| Colorful Polka Dots. Photo and bracelet by Carol Dean Sharpe of Sand Fibers. All rights reserved. |
I'm excited to see what the rest of the team created this time around. Click the picture links ot see what our design team has made with this month's challenge beads!
Be well and get going!
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