Murphy's Beads - A Rainbow of Beaded Creations by Sabina Anderson

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February 21, 2014

Glacial Lakes ~ Day 1

Glacial Lakes 1

Himalayan glacial lakes are the source of inspiration for my next necklace.
Here is a picture of my beading tray and the first "lake", a Larimar tumbled stone, almost bezeled.

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Miss Touchatou on February 22, 2014 3:11 AM

Coucou Sabina,ca va être encore une tuerie cette création,j'ai hâte d'en voir plus ;)

Sabina on February 23, 2014 3:05 AM

Awww merci beaucoup, Laetitia! ♥ Je vais essayer de mon mieux. ;-)

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February 18, 2014

Orange Tagua Necklace finally done!

Orange Tagua Necklace

Trying to get a decent pic of this necklace has turned out to be just as much frustrating as finishing the necklace itself! I give up! Sorry, but I can't seem to be able to get anything better than this. All I can say is that it looks better in real life. ;-)

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February 18, 2014

Shiny photo-bombing picture

Shiny photo-bombing

Can't get a decent pic today, but I like the photo-bomber! :-)

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May 9, 2013

Orange Tagua Nuts Necklace days 3 to 6

Beading around these tagua nuts turned out to be rather frustrating. Free-form would have been much easier, but I didn't like the way it looked near the rings, so I decided to "cage" them with herringbone and ladder stitches.
Here's the first caged tagua. I'm not excited about it, but I still can't tell if I'm going to like this necklace or not, so I'll keep working on it, hoping that it will not have to end up as an UFO forever.

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March 29, 2013

Cheesecake with Strawberries Topping!

Cheesecakes with Strawberries and Raspberries Topping

Cheesecake with Strawberries Topping

For the crust: 2 cups Graham Cracker crumbs (1 & 1/2 pkg); 1/3 cup sugar; 1/2 cup butter melted; 1 cup chopped pecans, or walnuts, or hazelnuts, or macadamia nuts, or a combo of nuts; about 2 tablespoons of honey melted into the butter. Combine crumbs, nuts, sugar, butter and honey. Press evenly onto bottom and up sides of a 9" greased pie pan.

For the filling: 2 (8 oz) pkgs. Philadelphia Cream Cheese; about 6 oz sour cream or Greek yogur...

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January 11, 2013

Orange Tagua Nuts Necklace days 1 & 2

Orange Tagua Nuts Necklace days 1 & 2 donuts components

Days 1 & 2...yeah right! I wish!... It took me 3 failures before I could get the right amount of beads to snuggly fit around these 31mm curtain rings! I wanted to increase only the bead size, rather than the bead count, so there would be no gaps showing the ring underneath the finished donuts. In this case, the 4th time was my charm. :-)
Ok, so the first one is done, the second one is on its way and I will have to make a third one before working on other components.

Japanese seed beads si...

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December 25, 2012

Orange Tagua Nuts Necklace

Orange Tagua Nuts Necklace Palette

Here are the beads I selected for my new beading adventure. I have a rough idea of what I want to try, but will have to wait and see what happens when I'll start beading around those huge nuts. ;-)

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December 13, 2012

Atolls Necklace days 36 to 38 Done!

Atolls

It done! Finally finished! It didn't turn out exactly as I wished, but I'm glad I don't have to deal with it anymore! :-)

I didn't add the palm trees because they didn't really look that good on the fiished necklace (totally off proportion).

Now I can finally move on and start playing with my Tagua nuts! :-)

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October 17, 2012

Atolls Necklace days 31 to 35

This thing is driving me nuts!

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October 1, 2012

Atolls Necklace is baaaack! Days 23 to 30

Atolls Days 23 to 30

It only took me 2 years and 3 months since the last time I worked on this necklace and over 2 years since I last beaded anything, but this time I'm back and well determined to finish this one and keep on beading! ;-)

My quilting experiment is sleeping in a drawer and will probably remain there... I'm not into sewing... never been and most likily will never be, so all you will see from me in that field will be just the forms for my beaded dolls.

This is probably the first time that I'm goin...

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