The winners of a pair of
Gemstone Donuts from my
Rings&Things goodie bag, determined by a random number generator, are Needlewings of
A Frayed of Fibers and Stonesetter. Congratulations to both! Each of you will receive a pair of donuts, one of Picture Jasper and one of the green donuts. Please send me an email with your name and address so that I can mail your donuts to you. Enjoy!
A big thank you to all who visited my blog and participated. Your visits and comments are so appreciated.
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| Green Aventurine and Jade |
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| Picture Jasper |
Thank you to Dave of
Rings&Things for sending me such a generous goodie bag.
Not having much experience in working with donuts, I decided I would look around to see how fellow beaders dress up their donuts.
Of course, there is always the easy way out, which I choose when I created my
multi-gemstone and donut necklace with premade bails. A nice selection of these
metal donut bails can be found at
Rings&Things.
Then there are the more creative and gorgeous ways of doing it too.
Cyndi of
Beading Arts has a free tutorial for a simple
square stitch bail for a donut; while
About.com:Beadwork has a free tutorial for making a
Peyote Stitched Donut Bail. For something a little different check out
Kassie's beadwork bail, she even has a variety of
tutorials that can be purchased. If only I can purchase time and patience...
Wrapping wire around the donut to create your very own
simple, or
glorious, or
elaborate bail is another option and I found many tutorials for beginners and advanced wire workers on
Jewelrylessons.com. They were all very beautiful, but if I had to pick a favorite, it would be this one... simple yet different, wrapped by made by
Edis Treasures at
Jewelrylessons.com
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| Tiger Eye Donut dressed by EdisTreasures |
Have a good week, everyone!
