New Work Facebook group sale before it goes public! 3 days only!

Hello beautiful souls!

Not local? Not to worry! We are doing a NEW WORK facebook sale in our facebook group before it hits the public. You can join our group here and get that shopping in before they are all gone! We have lots of amazing beachy beads and ocean in a drop headpins left! I know you all were swooning over them and now's your chance! Here is a video clip of our booth so you can see everything we have. Don't see it listed in the group? Ask and I can get a listing made for you!  I just posted and the beads are already selling, so don't wait!

Love, light, and creativity, 

xoxo Genea

Do you First Friday? Come see us at Bead Boutique Kansas City from 5-8pm tomorrow!

Hello beautiful souls,

Are you ready?!  TGIF! Come on over and see us at Bead Boutique in Kansas City, MO from 5-8pm TOMORROW and get your bead on! We have been busily creating this pile of loot for your every design need! Here you can see the entire display. I will be restocking more sari silk and wooly wire(be sure to check out Nellie's current stock of wooly wire on her Etsy) for the show(not all pictured)! Don't forget your sweet hearts whomever they may be. Ladies and gents alike love to be showered with affections in the form of gifts. Make some jewelry for you and your tribe to show them you care. 

Did you love our "glass dabs" headpins?! We think they are such a fluid component to make so many designs. As you can see I have created a few simple pendants using the headpins like the heart, and swirl wave pendants. Infact I loved the swirl wave designs so much, I made one for our entire tribe of friends in their favorite colors(pictured above). Want to learn how to make your own? I will be at the event showing off how to create them(just ask). 

 I've even created some simple designs with our new beach beads and even added in a few of the beads I used tied into the sets! OMG did you see those BUBBLES?! Yep, there they are trapped inside the glass like a little ocean :D

Check out these simple beachy earrings. They are super light and a perfect compliment to our simple beachy necklace.

You are the WHOLE ocean in a drop glass headpins! If you can't get to the ocean, bring the ocean to you! OMG! Aren't they so pretty?! There is just something so calming and peaceful about them. These beads and headpins are BRAND SPANKIN' NEW and NO ONE has laid a finger on them yet, except for me! So be the first to get a hold of the ocean in your hands.

See you tomorrow!

Love, light, and creativity,

xoxo Genea

Find us here:

www.geneabeads.com

www.geneabeads.blogspot.com

www.thirdeyegypsys.etsy.com

NEW focal and Bardara Bechtel bead swap REVEAL!

Hello friends!!

It has been so hard keeping my mouth shut and pics off the net about this NEW focal I created especially for Barbara Bechtel of Floritidy and Second Surf! It all started with our bead swap.(yep! Another swap, I sure am a LUCKY girl indeed!!) I kind of knew what Barbara wanted, but I got a few more quick ideas from her before beginning on her piece. 

One of the things she wanted was some wing dings. So I thought to myself what colors would I use for ocean water? I pulled out rods and rods of color. I had so many in opaques, opals and transparents.

 

So here are my oceany colored wing dings! Wonderful aquas, teals, sea foam, and turquoise!

I knew Barbara really loved my "Desert Serpent" style focals. She said to me that they reminded her of tide pools.

 

Here is an image of one of my Ancient Tablet series called "Desert Serpent Corazon".

So I sat down at my bead table and pulled out all of my goodies for this style focal except I wanted to create more of a sea themed bead. I wanted a really amazing "tide pool" look to it. I worked and worked and added glass, pressed, twisted, raked. I made cane and added sparkle. I finished and I just about cried! OMG look at this AMAZING BEAD! My God I hope it makes it in the kiln. I always have this fear when putting a bead with lots of layers of different glasses in the kiln that somehow it might come out broken. 

The annealing cycle was done. I RAN to my kiln and anxiously opened the door. I flipped on a light and brought the bead into it's glow....

 

This might be the most AMAZING bead I have made yet! I turned it's every angle and inspected it carefully. I was amazed by all of the little details, color and sparkle!

 

Here is the back side.

I LOVE the way the dichro glitters through the layers, the spots of rainbow raku, the little barnicles, the starfish, the look of sand from the silver leaf, the amazing webbing of dark ivory glass!

 

Some more shots of the angles.

I needed to make another! After making the first I had to try another one right after with some slightly different colors....

 

OMG another amazing bead! Look at all that shimmer!

Just like the glittery ocean!

Then spacers, yes, SPACERS!....

 

Two different styles. One to match Barbara's focal and then some slightly different ones to match the other focal. If you click on this photo to enlarge it you can see these amazing spots under the layer of tealy water colored glass. It is such an amazing effect!

 

AND look at THESE! OMG, watery and amazing on a wonderful sandy ivory base with gorgeous dark webbing!

I must make ANOTHER!

 

This time with some wonderful lighter seafoamy opal and glitter!

 

I just LOVE how this looks with the webbed ivory and the glittery opal glass half and half like that. I accidentally did that on Barbara's focal and had to mimic the effect on this one. This time I added a few little ivory shells to the bottom of this one as if they were gently layed there by a gentle wave from the sea to the shore. Lovely treasures washed up for the beach comber to find :D

It was such a pleasure to create such wonderful beads for Barbara! I was so excited to be so inspired by this new style. I hope you enjoyed seeing the beads I sent her for our swap and the inspiration that was born from it!

Thanks for stopping in again this week!

Have a wonderful weekend!

xoxo Genea