Very Cherie Xpressions

Very Cherie-Beaded Jewels

'I've got the world on a string...'

Beads, beads and more beads... brilliant, bold, bright, beautiful beads! They glisten, they sparkle, they shimmer and shine. they come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and textures; round, square, hexagon, bicone, oval, paddle and dagger shaped. They also come in flower and leaf shapes and so many others. The patterns on them are bold, flowery and pretty, geometric, abstract or psychedelic or exotic and in all the colors of the rainbow. They are translucent, opaque, matte, textured, shimmery, irridiscent, bumpy. Beads can be made of clay, metal, blown glass, lampworked; handmade or machine made locally or in far away places like Europe, Asia and Africa. They can be strung on wire, silk, cord, leather, ribbon or embroidery floss or woven into beautiful, stunning jewelry. Beaded jewelry can be worn everyday to work or a fun day at the beach; an evening out or a gala event.

I am fascinated with beading. I find it so relaxing. Just stringing them or weaving, picking up a bead, another and then another - the action is so repetitive... it's almost meditative. As you add the beads and watch your design grow, the joy and satisfaction of seeing the end result - a beautiful piece of jewelry; that is so fulfilling!

Sunday, March 3, 2013

Types and sizes of Beading Thread and Stringing Material

http://www.firemountaingems.com/encyclobeadia/beading_resources.asp?docid=THREADTYPESSIZES&WT.fmg_linksection=20025NT7CR925&cid=701034139549611804&_rid=231035.1600.95398&WT.mc_id=CW130303H

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Conversion Chart - FGM

Millimeters to Inches Conversion

25.4mm = 1 inch
Size in mm	Closest equivalent in Inches
1mm	just over 1/32 of an inch
2mm	just over 1/16 of an inch
3mm	1/8 of an inch
4mm	5/32 of an inch
5mm	3/16 of an inch
6mm	1/4 of an inch
7mm	9/32 of an inch
8mm	5/16 of an inch
9mm	11/32 of an inch
10mm	3/8 of an inch
11mm	7/16 of an inch
12mm	15/32 of an inch
13mm	1/2 of an inch
14mm	9/16 of an inch
15mm	19/32 of an inch
16mm	5/8 of an inch
17mm	11/16 of an inch
18mm	23/32 of an inch
19mm	3/4 of an inch

Inches to Millimeters Conversion

1 inch = 25.4mm
Inches	Millimeters
1/32	0.79
1/16	1.59
3/32	2.38
1/8	3.18
5/32	3.97
3/16	4.76
7/32	5.56
1/4	6.35
9/32	7.14
5/16	7.94
11/32	8.73
3/8	9.53
13/32	10.32
7/16	11.11
15/32	11.91
1/2	12.70
17/32	13.49
9/16	14.29
19/32	15.08
5/8	15.88
21/32	16.67
11/16	17.46
23/32	18.26
3/4	19.05
25/32	19.84
13/16	20.64
27/32	21.43
7/8	22.23
29/32	23.02
15/16	23.81
31/32	24.61
1	25.40

Sunday, December 30, 2012

Christmas Spider

Do you know the story of the Christmas Spider?


		The Christmas Spider Legend

		A long time ago in Germany, a mother was busily cleaning for Christmas. The spiders fled to the attic to escape the broom. When the house became quiet the spiders slowly crept downstairs for a peek. Oh what a beautiful tree! In their excitement they scurried up the trunk and out along each branch. They were filled with happiness as they climbed amongst the glittering beauty. But alas! By the time they were through climbing, the tree was completely shrouded in their dusty grey spider webs. When Santa Claus came with the gifts for the children and saw the tree covered with spider webs, he smiled as he saw how happy the spiders were, but knew how heartbroken the mother would be if she saw the tree covered with the dusty webs. So he turned the webs to silver and gold. The tree sparkled and shimmered and was even more beautiful than before. That's why we have tinsel on our tree and every tree should have a Christmas spider in it's branches ! author unknown This beaded spider is made with a crystal, pearls, seed beads and bugle beads.

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Chameleon bracelet and earrings- Sold

Bracelet and earring set with silver dusky beads, silver filigree beads and alexandrite crystal. This is such a pretty set; it is purple in natural lighting and turns an icy blue under artificial lighting. The ear wires are plated silver and it has a decorative silver tone toggle clasp.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Jump ring size chart

Here's something really useful from Art Jewelry Making Magazine

a jump http://art.jewelrymakingmagazines.com/~/media/Files/PDF/art-jewelry-jump-ring-size-chart.pdf ring size chart

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Leaf Earrings

These earrings were made with a patinaed look leaf shape and I added the filigree bead and decorative ear wires.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Falling Stars Earrings - Sold!

This photo is not very clear but before I could retake it they were sold.These Crystal Star Earrings are sold! They were about 2 inches long and they sparkled as they swung from delicate chains on gold plated ear wires.

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Swarovski Crystal earrings

Sold! Beautiful, decorative silver earrings with Swarovski crystals.

Dazzling Crystals

Sold! Beautiful sparkly bracelet in gold and silver tone chain and dusky gold and silver beads with sparkly Swarovski crystal dangles.

This beautiful mother of pearl bracelet and earring set with the cloisonne heart bead and pale pink Swaorvski pearl is sold.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Viking Knit Bracelet - sold!

This bracelet is made with sterling silver wire. It looks like a knit wire tube and very different to chains or links. The clasp is also sterling silver.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Orbit Earrings - Sold

I found these beautiful lamp worked beads that looked like something from space - a planet? My daughter called them Orbit. I added the black diamond Swarovski crystal to echo the shade in the lamp worked bead and the four petal bead cap sets it off. They hang 1 inch from sterling silver ear wires.

Sunday, December 18, 2011

Black Elegance - sold

These earrings look so elegant. I used a faceted black crystal bead and some fancy silver spacer beads. I added chain tassels and it creates lovely movement. the ear wires are silver plated

Saturday, December 17, 2011

Thar Desert - Sold

This is a beautiful necklace that reminds you of a sunset in a desert.

I had a photo of the sunset in the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India. The colors in the Unakite gemstone pendant and tiny round beads had these colors in them that echo the colors of the desert and the sunset, yellow, orange, brown, purple and the wooden beads had the color of the sand in the photo. They looked so good together. The little glass beads also had the sunset colors in them.
I've finished the necklace with a brass toggle clasp that adds to the warmth of the necklace.

Rosary bracelet - Sold

This wrap-a-round Rosary bracelet is made with Czech fire polished crystal beads in beautiful shades of violet, blue and deeper purple. The 'Our Father' beads are a wavy Czech glass bead in a shade of watery light blue that picks up the shade in the fire polished bead. I've used a silver plated Cross, spacer beads and memory wire. it will fit a 6 inch to 7 -1/2 inch wrist.

I love the Rosary - a beautiful meditative prayer to our blessed mother. It means so much more to me as my youngest daughter was born on the feast of the Rosary. There were a lot of complications and we all prayed the rosary for her and today she is a beautiful, healthy 18 year old - our miracle!