Today is the opening day for the vampire romance movie "Twilight." I read the book (actually the first three of four books) and it's very good. I'm still scared to read the final book because my trusted friend says that it's a terrible disappointment. I'm afraid it would be the literary equivalent to leaving a bad aftertaste. Anyway, I would love to be able to see the movie tonight, but I think it's going to be packed with its target market: 13-year-old girls. Hopefully, I'll get to see it next week. So why bother you with all this? Well, I made a "Twilight"-inspired necklace. I call it "Star-Crossed."
All the beads are glass with some cat's eyes, moonstone (opalite) and crystal thrown in. If you are familiar with the story, you'll probably understand my bead choices. It turned out so dramatic, I love it!
I love movies. My husband figures that Kansans love movies more than most because there's nothing else to do. He's from North Carolina. I just "ppfff" at him and roll my eyes while I secretly think that's he's probably right. At least to some extent. Last week, the latest James Bond flick opened. I've been a 007 freak for as long as I can remember. I even tolerate the lamest James Bond movies ever made (like "Thunderball"). It was hard not getting to go see "Quantum of Solace" on opening weekend, but I've got discount tickets that can't be used until this weekend. So last week, I made an homage to Bond necklace. It's pretty darn simple. I wish I could say that I made the glass pendant, but I just bought it. Here is "Shaken, Not Stirred":
Okay, moving beyond the Silver Screen, I have several other objets d'art for you. First are some earrings that I did not design. I took them out of a book, but going through the steps of making these gorgeous earrings, I became inspired to make a necklace using seed beads encircling a large glass disk (similar to the one in "Star-Crossed"). I've started working on that project, but I couldn't pass up showing you how lovely these guys turned out! I also like the way my photo turned out. :)
Second, a multi-strand necklace made up of glass beads in green, blue and light brown. The hook and eye clasp is placed to the side of the necklace. This is "Bird of Paradise" with it's matching earrings:
Next is "At Water's Edge" focusing on twin dragonfly pendants suspended by a mix of ribbon, hemp and glass beads. I don't usually bring out so much blue in my designs so this feels refreshing to me. I think the color scheme works great for autumn. Okay, maybe the brown leaves have something to do with that.
"Nebulae" is longer than most of my necklace designs and was inspired by a design in a book (as were the earrings). It's absolutely beautiful when worn with purple. It's received a lot of compliments.
I loved this pendant so I had to snag it! I added itsy bitsy Swarovski crystal cubes in purple velvet, green opal, and silk (not clear as it looks in the photo). This is "Geo Formations":
Those are all the new, completed projects I have right now. As I mentioned earlier, I have one more that is in the very early stages of creation. So far, the design looks a little outer spacey, so the working title is "Cosmos." We'll see how it goes.
It's 5PM, the kids are doing who-knows-what and my Studmuffin hasn't come home from work yet. I still have to come up with something for dinner. If I don't, Studmuffin will suggest going out to eat and how could any stay-at-home mom resist a suggestion like that?!
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