This Month has Flown By

I can't believe it is the 25 of January already.I have been finishing up orders for etched copper pieces and lampwork beads and trying to find some time to create some designs of my own.I have a bunch of etched copper components ready to sand and seal. I have a few ready to photograph and would love to find the time to get them posted for sale. But today I need to make beads to fill a couple custom orders. Here are some pics of what I will make today.

This is one of my most popular set of disk beads. It is called Blue Hydrangea. I love the color combinations. i tried to capture all the hues of purple, pink and blue the blooms go through with a little green thrown in for the leaves.

This is also Blue Hydrangea with an organic twist. I added silver foil on an ivory base for wonderful reactions on the surface of the beads.

And this last set was a wonderful surprise when I first made them and has been very popular. I call it Wildflower Garden as it has all the wonderful bright pinks and purples with some browns and greens with fabulous organic reactions.

Well, I suppose I better get to it. It is bright and sunny here. I hope you have good weather today and enjoy your day. 

Bead Soup Blog Hop is Coming Again

Sign ups are this weekend! I have been looking forward to this all year. The blog hops are only going to be once a year now but they are huge. Hundreds of people sign up for it and no one is turned down. There is only one reveal day and then we spend the next week or two hopping to see everyone's fabulous creations they have made from the bead soup that was sent to them in the mail .:o)

It is really fun and sometimes a challenge because you never know what you are going to get. Stay tuned for more info as it nears time!

A Good Day Lampworking!

You know there can be days that you sit down at the torch and work all day to have nothing thrilling come out of the kiln. How that happens I can't say but it does!  lol   But I had a good day a few days ago.  I was pleased with a couple new beads I tried out. The first

was a new shape of an old color combo and I love it!  I should have made this shape all along.  I also used light ivory as  base instead of dark ivory on the top half of the bead. The base color for the second half is called lipstick red unique. It is one of my favorite colors ever - sort of a school house red. ( the photo is a bit light.) I then used terra frit melted in on the top and bottom then rings of olive green and Picasso blue silver glass melted in. The finishing touch is 99% pure silver wire wound around the base and melted gently. What do you think? I love this color combo!

My next new bead was born out of determination to use that damn! gold leaf that has been laying around for years because it is so expensive.  It was placed on a light ivory base, gently heated and then powdered glass in pinky peach and green was alternately added and melted in. Then blue silver glass accent stringer was added. I love the organic look of this combination!

I made a round donut bead to go along with it in the same colors. I want to use this combo again for more beads - perhaps on a different color base. What base color do you think it would be good on?

Coupon Sale - Get $150 Dollars of Lampwork Beads and Jewelry for $75

Inspired by Groupon coupons!

You can purchase a $150 worth of handmade lampwork beads and handmade jewelry and chains for only $75!

After you purchase your voucher, a discount code will be emailed to you.

The voucher is only good for Cabaribeads purchases.

Can not be combined with any other coupons, deals or sales.
The half off price is on original prices only.  Thanks!

Only 10 vouchers are available here!

I make bead sets and focals, copper and dichroic components, handmade jewelry - handmade chains, necklaces, bracelets and earrings! I do custom orders so if you get an idea from something you see contact me about it!  Also, you may see something in my sold items you like and I can custom make one for you. :o)

New Lampwork Beads! And 20% Off!

I am so gearing up for Fall! I love Autumn and I need to make more beads with fall colors so that is what I am doing. I remade a made to order  focal that I had listed a year or so ago. It needed updating and I am so happy with the new bead. My whole store is 20% off right now so get some beads for your fall jewelry.

Here is Pond Flowers. It can be found in my Etsy store here.

I have a few more that I will list tonight as soon as I am done cropping the photos.

I love this focal frit bead. The bright orange id actually very pretty dark fuchsia. Impossible to photograph!

And with this organic focal size bead the murrini is not so bright actually burnt orange!

This 1 inch wide disk bead is a gorgeous silver glass deep pink!

And another Pond Flower focal. I love these colors.

Vacation Days!

Yay, for vacation days!!  Well, I took a few days off work just to hang around the house and finish a few projects that have been on the back burner. Plus, I needed some days away from the work stuff. I started off with super energy and got alot done:

I cut the canna lilies out of my garden as they have been taking over the garden and blocking the sprinkler from getting to the other side of them. I decided they need their own spot where I don't care if they take over.
I got my two porcelain vines tied up so they will trail up the pagoda.
I got the wisteria in the ground finally!
I cut down the bushes on either side of the steps in the front and it looks SO good now! Open and neat!
I trimmed two of the three trees along the driveway.
I got rid of the branches I had trimmed from trees and boards from a failed attempt at raised gardens.

And then I was marking the wall  to hang a picture over my antique vanity and my back went into spasms! Oh, pooh!!  That was two days ago and today I started using flexaril and some electric current pads. My dd has a battery operated Empi set. I decided to borrow it as I was not getting better on my own.  I hate not being able to keep going and I have to be back at work next Saturday. Darn!!

 Tomorrow I think I will sit on my duff and make beads. I am waiting on a glass order that has some yellow glass in it that I need for a special order. I hope it comes but I have some new beads in mind anyway.

I hate to leave you without eye candy so here are some beads I am making for this custom order.  Two focals and 2 bead sets!  Enjoy. 

This is a set of six beautiful light yellow coin shaped 22mm beads with a pretty frit blend that I made myself and a beautiful murrini accent .

This is a pretty, soft butter yellow with a speckling of pastel frit across it. It  is etched to give it a soft glow. It is 1& 5/8 inches long and 1& 1/4 inches across.

This sweet 1.75" soft teal shade is a blend of transparent teal and opaque teal. The mix is a beautiful wispy blend that looks like frothy ocean waves

This sweet soft teal shade is a blend of transparent teal and opaque teal.  These  beads are about 13mm around.

:o)

Happy Fourth Everybody!!

I want to say happy 4th to you all. I hope you have a great day whether working or relaxing.

I am trying to make up for all the lost posts from when my DD unintentionally deleted my old blog .  So, I want to show you the beads and jewelry from one of the Bead Soup Blog Hops that Lori Anderson hosts. This was the sixth blog party that that Lori hosted and I exchanged soups with Shari Replogle whose blog is http://playswithpaper.blogspot.com/2012/08/6-bead-soup-blog-party.html

I sent her this :

And she made this fabulous boho necklace!

She sent me this super bunch of charms and makings that she creates herself.

And I made this charm necklace. I have to say that we did not speak about what we were going to make. It seems that the brass tube charms lent themselves to tassel pendants!

I had so much fun on this blog hop. I hope you enjoy seeing the goodies. :o)

Flower beads

I an an avid gardener so it follows that I would love flower beads.  I have practiced in the last year or so various styles of flower beads!  I have yet to try sculpting flowers but that may come.  For now I am having fun making disk flower beads, murrini flowers and 3 petal flowers. These are all available in my Etsy store and are on sale right now!  https://www.etsy.com/shop/CabariBeads

This is a set of my Fun and Funky Disks beads that I indented to give them petals.

This focal bead is called Night Pond in which I used murrini as flowers.

I added silver glass dots to this disk flower beads.

This is a beautiful colored silver glass 3 petal flower on a large focal bicone bead.

I used silver glass frit as a background for this 3 petal flower focal bead.

This set is called Summer Garden in which I mixed my own frit blend to act a background flowers to the larger murrini flowers.

Good Bead Production Day!

Well, good all around day. I worked my other job today as I work six days a week. Ugghhh!  But I got off at 1:30 this afternoon and came home to be greeted by my pups and kittehs. 

My funny Jessie girl - the love of my life

Juno - my goonie girl

Molly - my daughter's swimming doggie

Daisy - my old girl!

And the menagerie of kittehs

My DD was napping because she had gotten up early for a job interview.  I wondered what I was going to do with the rest of my day.   I piddled around and decided to take 3 of my dogs to the dog park that was built by Pet Safe ( thank you) a few miles away. There is a fenced area separate from the rest where the dogs can get in the lake and my pups love it!  After about an hour they had enough of swimming and chasing other dogs so we drove home and my DD was still sleeping. I got on the computer and edited listings in  my Etsy store for a couple hours and then decided to remake a few beads I have wanted to redo. I turned on the kiln and got a bunch of mandrels dipped and drying. Then I realized my DD needed to get up for work - fast! I got her up and she began telling me about her day and her job training that she will be traveling out of town for.  We started picking out clothes for her and she tried on several skirts and blouses and found a few that will work perfectly.Well,  another 40 minutes had gone by!  So, she dashed out the door to her job and I finally got on the torch! Do your days go like that, too? lol

I have a special order to fill from my Etsy shop as well as a few other beads to make. I made 12 disk beads like these - Fun and Funky Poppy Disks - but I added some black dots in the center of a couple of them and made a pair with yellow centers and a pair with coral centers. I can't wait to see them after they have cooled!

Then I made this  focal bead and matching disk beads for the special order. They are organic and they make me feel as if I am at the ocean!  I also made a new set of five silver glass beads. I can't wait til morning to see how they turned out! After that I went outside with my black doggie Jessie and pulled weeds in my flower gardens for an hour or so.  All together I made 28 beads and had a fabulous day!  Yay Saturday!  BTW, I have a 20% off Pre July 4th Sale going on right now in my Etsy Store. Check it out! Link on the right!

I Work with Metal, too!

I forgot to tell you that I work with metals, too! I do a  little soldering for bezels, metal etching, and cold working, of course!  I love metal etching because you can etch any design in your metal piece that you can outline on your piece. There are two ways: using rubber stamps and photo etching. To do photo etching you have to have a certain type of copier which I don't have so for me it's rubber stamps and/or hand drawing. Here are some pieces I have made over the last couple of years.I make most of the earwires, clasps and jump rings for my pieces.

Mendi Style Earrings

Dragonfly flight Earrings

Totem man Necklace

Sunflower Fields Pendant

Sunflower Fields Cuff Bracelet

Boho Charm and Chain Dangle Necklace

Koi Pond Etched Copper and Lampwork Necklace

Timetraveller  Copper tri metal layered disk  Necklace

Floral Lampwork Bead with Floral Copper Disks and Washer

And one of My Favorites - Sister Moon Pendant

I Love Pink Beads!

And I have a ton to show you.  Pink is a beautiful color ranging from bright fuchsia to pale pastel in transparent and opaque and I love them all!  It is considered ultra feminine but I look at pink as a color of flowers in my garden - the same as the purples, yellows, reds and oranges!  There are some fairly new silver glass colors with which you can get fantastic hot pinks and then the standby opaque pastel pinks which are fab by themselves or mixed with other colors. Except for the silver glass colors pink glass actually has real gold in it which explains the higher prices on pink glass. So, here are some of my pink beads that I have to offer now in my Etsy shop. There are more and you can see them all there in my Etsy Store.  And I am having a 20% off Sale right now!

 

Pink Fun and Funky Disks on Etsy 

 

 Pink Silver Glass Barrel Beads on Etsy 

Pink Wildflower Garden Opaque Beads

 

Opaque and Transparent Pink Frit Beads with Pure Silver Wire