As you may or may not know, I haven’t made many beads recently. I was prompted to get the clay out to try a couple of things I’ve had in mind. For a start, I’ve been wanting to try making some smaller birds, suitable for earrings. I made a couple of pairs…

as well as a couple of loners.

I also had these bead set designs in mind and I wanted to try them out.

As I was making the yellow set, I was struck with the shape of one of them, which led me to make these -

That’s the bulk of the new bits. Not much, I know… I made a few random extras - old faves mostly -

And these seafoam spirals which have touches of gold. Good for earrings, me thinks.

I’ve now listed all of these in the bead shop: Here!