AJE Component of the Month - Spring Leaf

It was Karen Totten's turn to create and send out the Art Jewelry Elements Component of the Month for January - beautiful beads that have made all of the AJE team dream of pies! She wrote a blog post yesterday showing how she made them, and I am amazed at how much work goes into making them. I always find it fascinating to see how artists create with other materials.

And this is what I made with my pie bead.....

I made a bangle with a lovebird - a hopeful spring symbol to go with the green leaf on the bead that Karen sent me. The wooden beads are from Smitten Beads, and I've used copper wire to twist peanut seed beads around the thicker wire of the bangle to stop the larger beads from slipping around too much. I'm really rather pleased with it, although it's not my usual style of jewellery. And I'm very pleased with the bangle I made! I've got daisy and poppy bangles in my Daisychain Extra shop, and I think lovebird ones will be joining them soon!

I'm really looking forward to seeing what the rest of the AJE blog team and this month's guest challengees have made with Karen's beads. You can see what they've made too by following the links below...

Our guests:

ArtZhodgepodge
Shirley Moore
Boot-C

The AJE team:

Karen Totten, our hostess

Jen Cameron 
Kristi Bowman
Diana Ptaszynski
Kristen Stevens
Lesley Watt
Francesca Watson
Melissa Meman
Jo Tinley
Linda Landig
Sue Kennedy
Jenny Davies-Reazor