Flowers for Valentines Day

beaded flower

Flowers are always a great gift for Valentines Day.

With beaded flowers they never die or go brown, but can last a lifetime.

beaded fuchsia

Here is a small sample of some of mine.

beaded rose bud

beaded carnation

french beaded flower

Valentines Hearts

heart earringsIt is getting close to to Saint Valentines Day and it's time to think about that special gift.

Valentines Day is all about love, and the heart is the symbol of love.

I have made quite a lot of different beaded hearts, some puffy 3d types, some other 3 dimensional ones, as well as 2 dimensional flat ones.

Here are some of them.

open heart

heart earrings

3d beaded heart

beaded heart earrings

puffy heart

3d heart earrings

red open heart

3d puffy heart

All of these are available from Craft Cove

But don't forget all other jewellery also makes wonderful gifts for valentines day

Yummy things added to Craft Cove

I've added some yummy things to Craft Cove. There's lots of fruit, and desserts, cakes and mushrooms.

Orange cake beaded

beaded watermelon

This is just a small sample of them.

mont blanc

beaded donut

3d strawberry

New items added

Here are some of the latest items I've added to Craft Cove

3d beaded drogonfly

beaded cup cakes

coral fringe necklace

3d beaded witch

Coral Fringe Necklace

coral fringe necklace

I just finished a fringe necklace made with the coralling technique. Usually I would string the length of beads for each fringe, then work back upwards for each branch, but this time I did it the opposite way. I worked each branch as I went down the fringe. I think it gave it a more interesting jagged look, as opposed to a smoother look to the fringe.

fringe necklace

I used black seed beads for the majority of it, with gold seed beads at the ends of each branch. Glass chips in a amberish color were scattered throughout. I added 2 beaded clasps that can be exchanged for more or less length, with a single loop on the other end.

I also made some matching earrings, you can see the jagged fringe more in this image of the earrings.

coral fringe earrings

If you're a beader and you've done coralled fringes, which way do you prefer to bead it?

Which way do you think looks better? (I don't have an image of the other method at the moment)

These are available to buy from my website.