My Latest Beaded Ornaments: Photo Essay

As some of you know, I have been doing a lot of beading here lately. I have finally been given a copy of the beaded bells pattern that I have been looking for for years. (My ex-step-grandmother made a bunch of these and gave them to my mom years ago. I have been wanting the pattern for them for the last several years and came up empty on finding a copy.)

A lady in one of the Yahoo groups that I belong to hacd a copy and emailed it me. It is a copyrighted pattern that was printed in a magazine, but she only had the page for a couple of the ornaments and can't remember which magazine it was in. She also sent me a copy of the pattern for something called a Christmas Circle, and I have made a bunch of those as well.

I have made a bunch of Christmas Bells in various colors. I have run out of colored beads with the exception of red and green, and the rest are pearls. I am using the pearls right now, and then I will work on the red and the green.

Here are the Christmas Circles. I have made two in nothing but pearls, but I didn't take a picture of them. They use all the same color pearls and I used a pearl for the dangle bead in the center.

I was making the bells first and whatever colors where left over is how I made my circles since they don't use as many beads and I could mix and match colors. 

My husband, Tracy, thinks I need to make enough of these for the kids on my school bus next Christmas, but I told him that by the time I put a pencil and all the candy in the bags on top of the ornament, and then put them all in one large tote, that they would get broken because they are sewed pretty tight. (You "sew" them with dental floss!)

Well, back to making more ornaments. I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I have been working on.