http://www.gailnettles.com Beads, Jewelry, Tutorials, Makeup & More! Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:40:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/blessings-bracelet-part-2/ http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/blessings-bracelet-part-2/#comments Sun, 03 May 2009 16:44:08 +0000 Gail http://www.gailnettles.com/?p=347 The blessings bracelet that I spoke of in the last post is done now.  It's in shades of purple and green, with accents of pink and a kind of butter-cream ivory. So here are the supplies, the finished product and the general technique. Blessings Bracelet Supplies As you see in the photo, the supplies are kind of eclectic.  [...]]]> http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/blessings-bracelet-part-2/feed/ 0 http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/do-you-have-a-blessings-bracelet/ http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/do-you-have-a-blessings-bracelet/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 00:14:53 +0000 Gail http://www.gailnettles.com/?p=334 My friend Jennie mentioned the concept of a "blessings bracelet" to me a few months ago.  It's a bracelet that, whenever you look at it, it reminds you of your blessings. I know, in today's world it's hard to come up with anything to consider a blessing -- sometimes it all seems so bleak.  But a [...]]]> http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/do-you-have-a-blessings-bracelet/feed/ 0 http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/freeform-peyote-bracelet-tutorial-day-one/ http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/freeform-peyote-bracelet-tutorial-day-one/#comments Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:03:46 +0000 Gail http://www.gailnettles.com/?p=206 OK, since you folks have requested it, here's a freeform peyote bracelet tutorial.  This is day one, where we make the basic bracelet. Before I start, I'm assuming that you know how to do the regular peyote stitch, as it's the basis of this bracelet.  If you don't, check out the basic peyote tutorial video. One other [...]]]> http://www.gailnettles.com/hand-beaded-bracelets/freeform-peyote-bracelet-tutorial-day-one/feed/ 0 http://www.gailnettles.com/lampwork-beads/beaded-bead-bracelet/ http://www.gailnettles.com/lampwork-beads/beaded-bead-bracelet/#comments Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:03:02 +0000 Gail http://www.gailnettles.com/?p=181 I decided to try a beaded bead bracelet, since I found three of my lampwork beads that were hanging out and not doing anything. I immediately saw that they used two of the colors from my coraling bracelet (which I am slowly but surely working on), so I got the idea to make a beaded [...]]]> http://www.gailnettles.com/lampwork-beads/beaded-bead-bracelet/feed/ 0 http://www.gailnettles.com/seed-beads/freeform-peyote-stitch-bracelet/ http://www.gailnettles.com/seed-beads/freeform-peyote-stitch-bracelet/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:23:51 +0000 Gail http://www.gailnettles.com/?p=145 Here's the freeform peyote stitch bracelet I've been working on -- finally! This will be a "drive-by" post, but I wanted to get the beaded bracelet photo up since I have been talking about it all week! OK, so what's in it? Glad you asked!  I used the following in this bracelet: Size 8 and size 11 [...]]]> http://www.gailnettles.com/seed-beads/freeform-peyote-stitch-bracelet/feed/ 0 http://www.gailnettles.com/jewelry/hand-beaded-bracelet-turquoise-and-silver/ http://www.gailnettles.com/jewelry/hand-beaded-bracelet-turquoise-and-silver/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:28:06 +0000 Gail http://www.gailnettles.com/?p=31 A hand beaded bracelet is fun to make (or at least I think so).  This kind in the photo takes me about 2.5 hours, start to finish, due to the number of strands I use (I like more substantial bracelets in general).   I think I used either 8 or 10 strands for this bracelet, strung with [...]]]> http://www.gailnettles.com/jewelry/hand-beaded-bracelet-turquoise-and-silver/feed/ 1