Ever been to Sedona, Arizona? Well, it is stunning, and in addition to the breathtaking red rock formations and searingly clear blue skies, the mountainsides are filled with these amazing white sycamore trees that contrast so perfectly within this environment where the colors of nature all seem so wrong yet are also so right. Must be something about that energy vortex that makes everything so hauntingly beautiful there.
Seed bead heaven in the middle of the beautiful Southwest. Poppyfield Bead Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico has an outstanding selection of seed beads in a dizzying array of shapes, sizes and colors - everything you need to fill in your expanding palette. And of course they have plenty of other beading needs and
supplies and offer classes and inspriation too as it it run by talented bead artists.
Poppyfield Bead Company
4401A Cutler Ave. NE
Albuquerque NM 87110
www.poppybeads.com; 505-880-8695
Went through quite a spate of making cherry blossom inspired flowers in all shapes sizes and colors, but then had to figure out what to do with them. Some ended up on this necklace. Tried to add dimension to the flowers by using different colored threads in the bead weaving - this would alter the color of the beadwork slightly giving a kind of
tarnished effect. Sewn onto silk leaf ribbon to form the necklace.