Medical Alert Bracelets

One of the things I am committed to is making jewelry and lampwork that is useful, rather than being just One More thing cluttering up a home or office. Along those lines, I am creating a set of medical alert bracelet chains out of lampwork beads.
Medical alert bracelets can be real life-savers, but oh, boy, are those chains ugly! So here are some bracelet chains that are rather more interesting. You can find them at my ETSY shop, but also at my new shop at 1000 Markets. It's a wonderful site--come and visit it!

While on the topic of jewelry ...

I finished the lampwork and sterling necklace a friend commissioned, for her wedding anniversary present. She saw the beads, and that was it -- I never even put them on Etsy. Her instructions were for something simple, too --- simple can be harder than bling at times. But she liked this design, which made me feel happy, too.

I have Applied For ...

the Indie Craft Experience show here in Atlanta. Both Art of the Firebird and I are applying, but separately; the booth size is so small that we really can't share a table. We do plan to put our tables together, though, so we can use the same credit card machine.



They wanted some pictures, and so I gave them pictures of my loose beads. They also want finished jewelry, so I re-photographed some of the jewelry and fan pulls that I've made. Everything is sterling silver, of course, except for the fan pulls, which are brass.

It sounds as if it would be fun to do, though in the current economy I hope we break even. I did spectacularly well at the last Down the Street Bead Show, but that was before the economic bail-out!