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Should I list these new pieces? (I'm linking up with Mellow Yellow Monday #90 , Smiling Sally's Blue Monday and The Work of the Poet's Ruby Tuesday .) These are stretch bracelets in the ususal fall colours, yellow-orange-red. You can were several on your wrist or... Or just one together with a watch or alone. This first patteren has a lot of different coloured glass beads in it. But I am also working on simpler patterns with one predominate colour, such as this yellow stretch bracelet: Another innovation is that I am stringing two sizes of glass seed beads (size 6 & size 8) to get a more varied texture in even one-coloured designs such as this entirely cobalt blue stretch bracelet: The most important fall colour this year is purple. Here are some stretch bracelets in colours that range between red and blue : And as with the yellow - orange - red bracelets, you can wear several or just the one: You have seen my latest 'skinny' stretch bracelets that I have ...

We hope that all Americans at home and abroad have a happy celebration of Independance Day. Here is a pair of my own glass beaded earrings that remind me of the red, white and blue! ------ Thank you for advertising with me on my Entrecard-widget this past week, from June 28th to July 4th. Please visit these fine sites: Monday, June 28st - Grampy's World Tuesday, June 29th - Jealousy Jewelry & Design Wednesday, June 30th - Grandmother Wren Thursday, July 1st - Meow Diaries Friday, July 2nd - Sara Cat writes / Sara Katt skriver Saturday July 3rd - The Red Cat Society Sunday, July 4th - Mariuca's Perfume Gallery Best wishes, Anna First Commenter: Leslie of 'I'm a Mark Girl'

For last week's Ruby Tuesday I showed a red and green beaded necklace (click here to see it again) that I made to look a little bit like rose hips. This week I will continue to show some of my efforts to make plant-inspired jewellery. Here is a bracelet made with an antiqued brass chain with 10mm links with the same bright red beads from India that I used for last week's necklace. But instead of stringing the red beads and glass leaves in a row, the "rose hips" hang individually more like the way they do from branches of a rose bush. This time I am using olive green Czech pressed glass leaf beads to hang on the bracelet as charms. Making bracelets is a real challange, because like rings, they are constantly seen by the wearer herself. Maybe this is why I began making necklaces . But I am that glad I have finally started to make bracelets. It's fun! We can call this is a work in progress. Again, this is a piece that I have not yet listed in a shop. Should I mak...

You may remember how green the elderberries [sv. = fläder, lat. Sambucus nigra ] were in September. Most berries look like beads and pearls, so I am looking for sources of inspiration for jewellery here. S ee the change in colour? It's November now and the berries themselves are a very dark, blackish, blueish purple . The birds eat the berries or they fall off, so the reddish stems are more visiable. Is it possible to do something with these colours or am I being too literal? Well, we'll see a little later what I do with this! Anna

As I have mentioned several times before, we have a lovely garden. But I am always finding interesting plants along our neighbors' fence. These bright red-orange flowers looked like this about a week or so ago. I don't know what they are called. If anyone can tell me what their name is in English, Latin or Swedish, I would be very grateful. According to Jakill from Jean's Musings, these flowers are nasturtiums . (Thank you so much for taking the time to tell me! Best wishes from Anna on October 14th 2009) Yes they were this bright! I will miss the lovely greens and bright reds, oranges and pinks of spring and summer. On the other hand, I can make jewellery as cheery as summer-flowers all fall and winter. Please come visit again and see!

Summer is drawing to a close, here in Sweden. But there are still some roses left in the garden! Look at these Peace roses. They are so incredibly orange-red in colour!