Crafts by Chris

Musing on polymer clay, beads, jewelry and other stuff.

beach challenge

Here’s the mokume gane tiles I made for a beach challenge.

a little push

ok, maybe I need a big push! I started remodeling my website in January. I bet you can tell where I’m going with this already. Yes, it’s now June and I’m no farther along that I was in January. I actually got quite a bit done when I first started, then life got in the [...]

more mokume gane

I admit to being somewhat ADD. I will make a set of beads in a certain design/style (maybe even two), then I move on to something totally different. So, I’ve surprised myself with my desire to keep working with mokume gane techniques. It’s not like I haven’t tried it before, I’ve just never really gotten [...]

mokume gane

Taking a little break from flowers and decided to play with mokume gane techniques. I haven’t really made tile beads until just recently. I like the fact that I can build a scene on them better than round beads. Here’s what I came up with.

I have some cool water looking mokume gane tiles that [...]

a worthy cause

How many of you use Karen Hill Tribe Silver in your jewelry designs? Did you know that the Karen people are enduring an ethnic cleansing in eastern Burma? The result is between 500,000 to 1 million people living in hiding within Burma. In addition, a series of nine refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border house [...]

debate is over

Well, DH hit a deer this morning, so the debate over keeping the tile beads is over. LOL! DH is fine, but unfortunately the car and deer are not. They are currently listed on ebay. You can check them out here

back to the beads!

I very seldom make tile beads, but am really happy with the way these turned out. They were inspired by my purse (yes, I can find inspiration almost anywhere). I’m debating whether or not to list them for sale or keep them.
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The following beads are currently listed on eBay.