Each year I create a new beaded brooch for Christmas. This year it was a Christmas stocking design. Each stocking had a different colour or…
Author: leisha
An artwork created for a competition. It was entered into the Gympie Gold Rush art competition in the miniature category. Sydney city scape and Opera…
Three rows of large red glass beads with white seed beads zigzagged in between. Finished with a large bead and loop.
Three strands of white, red and black seed beads braided around a further three strands of red frosted seed beads.
The necklace is viking knitting with purple nickel-free wire. The feature is thread after thread of purple and mutli-coloured seed beads, with small purple and…
Inspiration came from the cube stone beads for these bracelets. The cube beads were ladder stitched together and linked each of the threads with crystals…
The top triangle section is brick stitched together, and the remaining strands dangle freely with silver crystals on the bottom.
Inspired by a lace Japanese fan, this necklace uses large white coral beads as the central focus. The twisted, shiny brown bugle beads fan out…
I wanted to create a textured look on a simple seed bead bracelet, so decided to add crystals at intervals throughout the bracelet. Finished with…
Taking inspiration from nature, this ring is unique all the way around. It is a long leaf design, textured on one half.
Spiral tubular peyote with different sized beads – from small seed beads through to crystals. This has given the necklace and earrings texture. The necklace…
I have been setting up my own silversmithing studio to continue the fun and experiments with silver. My latest (and favourite) is this simple leaf…
Each year I create a new beaded brooch for Christmas. This year it was a Snowman design. Each brooch had a different coloured hat.
Over the weekend I attended a stone setting workshop at the Brisbane Institute of Art with Renata Fojtikova as the teacher. These were my test pieces:…
I was recently treated to a short workshop on how to make viking knitting at Art Time in Ipswich. It was a fun session and…
Using a seed bead net as the base, I then added crystals to the gaps which forms these thick, sparkly bracelets. A slide clasp is…
I have started experimenting with silver and have been taking silversmithing classes at Fio: Contemporary Jewellery & Design in the evenings with Clare Poppi. After learning…
Using the brick stitch, these flat earrings hang nicely from the silver-plated hooks.
Inspired by the beautiful large green beads at the bottom of these earrings, a simple design was created using seed beads and green bugle beads.
With an intention to add highlights to a simple black tubular peyote necklace, individual shapes were made out of seed beads using the square stitch…