Santa Monica, CA, United States
Hi, my name is Diana and welcome to my shop. Ask questions, I like to help. I design each piece. I hope you find your own.
Handmade, Artisan, jewelry, semi-precious stones, beads, adornment, vintage beads, beadwork, wirework, polymer clay, copper, silver, gold, vintage jewelry, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, metals, silk, wire, peyote stitch, bead embroidery, harmonica
Skills and Techniques
I use my own square beaded beads and stars in many of my designs. These are made using peyote stitch and bugle beads. I use vintage findings, beads and crystals. I use filigree and brass. I use copper and annealed steel, chains and links. I'm very partial to vintage brass and glass bugle beads. And I like to find uncirculated beads and pieces to use in my designs.
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Get to Know
I love to bead and that is about it! Oh, I like to play harmonica too. Every one of my pieces is unique and one-of-a-kind. You will be the only one that buys it or gives it away, to commemorate an important day or have it for yourself. The only one in this wide world!
I started selling in December 2010 as a PRO member of ArtFire. The first beads I purchased were from a very old Blackfeet Indian woman in 1970 in Montana. Every wall in her house was covered with packages of beads-many were very old and I wanted to buy everything! I still have some of those beads. I learned the peyote stitch from the woman who took me there. And then I didn't bead again until 2005. I started working on a loom and loved it and then soon after I got back into my favorite stitch: peyote. I mostly use seed and bugle beads as they bring such joy in small little packages! I also love brass and vintage beads, which I have been collecting for many years.
Every year I donate some of my pieces to charities with silent auctions. For two years I have entered pieces into a worldwide beading contest and have been chosen as a finalist. And here I am on Artfire.
Thanks for your interest in handmade.
My first attempt at bead embroidery. The cabochons are the Czech Preciosa brand in Jet Titania Star.
My first custom order. The triangles are 2-1"/5-2.5cm.
It is in Bright Copper and Opaque Forest Green Delicas brand seed beads and vintage copper chain that is square.
The clasp is also made of the seed beads.
Large triangles sewn together and strung with vintage gunmetal beads and gunmetal bead caps.