Cloth of Stars

At the beginning of March I posted about making my own glass beads at home ( here ).  I'm still going strong, and I'm getting better...

 Here's a beaded necklace set - necklace, bracelet, and earrings - that I made a couple of weeks ago.  This started out as just a bracel...

Guess what I did last night?  I attended our local Flameworks Guild and learned how to make lampwork glass beads!  It was a lot more challen...

I re-strung my Viking beads over the weekend. Nothing fancy happened, but I made these changes: •  I removed the wood beads and the ...

This is my Viking jewelry as it was in February at Candlemas: There's so much wrong with this picture;  but we won't go into th...

I have a bit of a Thing about pomegranates. I always have, and when I joined the SCA, I made the pomegranate my symbol.  It's on my hera...

Once upon a time, many pious folks carried with them a rosary, or paternoster  (lit. "our father") to assist them in their daily p...

A Remember the little painted black box ?  I'm doing a much larger version - a 24" six-panel wooden chest.  The box itself is ne...

Success!  Drumroll, please... Drrdrrdrrdrrdrrdrrdrrdrrrrrr.... Clockwise from top left:  15th/early 16th "transitional";  ...