Brooches are so versatile when it comes to where you wear them.
This piece has the Blood Stone Drop beaded around a Drusie. The smaller drop beads are Labadorite and Facaded Green Glass. Can you see this on your felted hat?
The Clover Button is the ma
in focal point of this brooch. I bezeled it with size 11 seed beads and added more beads hanging around the bottom of the brooch. This has the Kahlua Drops along with other fun beads. Most of my brooches are created using sterling silver Celtic brooches.
The beginning of the Merlot Brooch is a Merlot Recycled Wine Bottle Glass Drop. When I design a piece I begin with one bead and create around that bead. This brooch ended up with a Vintage Wheat Button along with many seed beads.
These brooches can adorn anything you wear.
The Green Vintage Button is adorned with Fresh Water Pearls, German Facaded Crystals, and a light green flat drop loop. I found the drop loop at The Bead Museum Bead Shop. Gabriele Liese, the Museum founder, donated all of her bead stash to the museum store and I purchased several of her beads. During a program at the Bead Society last y
ear she explained that this bead collection she donated to the Museum Bead Store is an accumulation of beads she found all over the world, she had planned to create her own jewelry. You all know what we have in our stash and donating beads to the Museum Bead Store not only gives us a tax write off, but also supports the Museum.
You will find all of these brooches and more at Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery, 134 S. Montezuma Street, Heart of Historical Whiskey Row here in Prescott.