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Recognition For My Work
These pieces have received recognition in competitions.
To Bee in the Garden of
Good and Evil
Woven Top Evening Bag
Scultptural Gold Bee Bracelet
Wedding Barrette
Colombian Bead and Fiber Necklace
From the Sea Necklace
To "Bee" in the Garden of Good and Evil was selected for inclusion in Beadwork II, The Embellished Shoe Traveling Exhibit.
The Snake, a hot band of seed beads using peyote and
brick stitches was
accepted as a finalist in Embellishment, Gleaming Treasures Contest
The Golden Tree, a lamp, was juried into the ACC Spotlight 2000. The
top of the tree, which is the lampshade, is layers of brick stitched leaves ending with fringes of glass leaves. The little blossoms are back stitched. The tree trunk, tubular peyote and spiked fringe, sits in a meadow, at the edge of a pond, worked in a 3-D loomed stitch.The Web Bracelet was juried into the ACC Spotlight 2000. The bracelet
is worked in bead embroidery around a cabochon.Beetle, Bees and Bugs, a necklace worked around peyote stitched and
embellished beaded beads, was one of the top 25 winners in the Millennium Designers contest. The beaded beads are surrounded by strung and fringed beads that travel through and around and are covered with glass and brass beetles bees and bugs. The clasp is made of two brick stitched leaves embellished with bees.Reaching for the Wandering Thread, was juried into Bead and Buttons Bead Dreams 2000. After I finished covering a blown glass vase with seed
beads using tubular peyote, I worked around and around in sculptural peyote using seed beads, vintage pearls and various 2mm to 8mm beads. The top was finished using fringed spikes and ruffled peyote. Gloria, who is reaching for the wandering thread, was worked in brick stitch.I was profiled in the March 1999 issue of the Lapidary Journal.
