Flowers for girls and Pirates!

Hello all, been able to listen to some of The Ashes...em. So to more fun things - flower brooches and rings!

Definitely slightly OTT but all glitz and glam. This pink flower brooch is for a girls girl!!

And a brilliant Pirate brooch made using red velvet and sparkly black netting on a sieve plate brooch back.

A matching ring - again on a sieve plate ring blank.

This shows the sieve fittings - they provide extra stability and support for the velvet - no floppy pirates here!!

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Loves & Hugs. Lor. xx

Good morning everyone. Had a good evening playing with a new design for a charm bracelet.

The charms and SP gem stones are all on separate bails and hung from a double elasticated section. The picture above shows bracelets finished with a double strand of black leather, black velvet and turquoise genuine suede ribbon.

There are six charms per bracelet chosen from these twelve. All soo cute.

And a choice from nine genuine suede ribbons.

The beads I have used above are SP gem stones or natural stone. I have a wide assortment of beads and colours available. Each charm bracelet is £7.50 plus £1.25 p&p. Please visit

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Please let me know what you think. Have a lovely day. Loves & Hugs. Lor. xx

Good evening everyone. I hope you have managed to enjoy the good weather. Been pottering in the garden recently!! Burnt nose!
I made a couple of notice boards today. The embroidery hoops were forgotten in the back of the cupboard, add some cork and beautiful vintage floral fabric, back it with felt and hey presto!! It was  great way to use up those odd bits of fabric that I seem to collect! I think I will have to buy some more hoops now as i have ideas whizzing around in my head!!

I would love to read your feedback. Please visit and like my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/BeadsBraidsAndBows

Loves & Hugs. Lor. xx

Kumihimo Lariat with handmade Indian beads

Hello everyone, hope you are all well. I have finished a new Kumihimo project - this took some doing..

Work tray - approx. 2000 Preciosa seed beads strung...

15" braided -

All done - tassles made with hammered shell, seed beads, crystals

and finished with beautiful handmade Indian beads.

The finished lariat.

I love Indian beads.

I hope you will leave your comments below - I would love to know what you think. After stringing and braiding all those beads I had pretty swollen wrists!! But I love it. Please visit my Facebook page at www.facebook.com/BeadsBraidsAndBows

Thank you for taking the time to look. Loves & Hugs. Lor. xx

Good afternoon, raining here again... I started a necklace yesterday and it was one of those wonderful occasions when it turned out even better than I thought...

My work tray for the Kumihimo element - 

Eventually beads all threaded in the right order!!

A lovely sparkle...

The stringing element...

Tadah...I love the AB sparkle - really pleased with this.

I would love to hear your feedback/opinion. I have re-kindled my love for Kumihimo.

Loves & Hugs. Lor. xx

Hello everyone, the sun is trying to come out here - I hope all is good with you. I have been continuing the sort out - getting fed up of it all now!! How do we manage to accumulate so much "stuff". This set is general card making/scrap booking. It will be posted in a tracked parcel - it is heavy and the starting offer of £25.00 is nearly all postage!! Please have a look and pass on to anyone that may be interested - www.facebook.com/BeadsBraidsAndBows

If you are interested please look at www.facebook.com/BeadsBraidsAndBows

Thank you very much. Loves & Hugs. Lor.xx

More sorting - I am on a roll now... these are all new and unused - must go by 21/06/2013. Offers starting at £5.00 inclusive of p&p. Any more that get added will most likely have been partly used. If you or anyone you know is interested please go to www.facebook.com/BeadsBraidsAndBows

Thank you for looking. Please share if you know anyone that would be interested. I will be adding more clearance items throughout the week on www.facebook.com/BeadsBraidsAndBows

Hugs & Loves. Lor. xx

Hi everyone..anyone.
I have been having a clear out - sometimes I find myself wondering why I started..Have you noticed that something that is only going to take an hour or so mysteriously turns into half the afternoon.
I have sorted out a box full of Christmas card making/scrapbooking...

If you or anyone you know is interested please go to www.facebook.com/BeadsBraidsAndBows.

Offers starting at £25.00 inclusive of p&p. It will be available until 21/06/2013. I shall be sorting out a lot more stuff over the next few days.

Loves & Hugs. Lor. xx

Long Stemmed Fabric Flowers

Long Stemmed Fabric Flowers

One of my favorite blogs - http://snowybliss.blogspot.co.uk/
Loves & Hugs. Lor. xx

Welcome, let me introduce myself...

Hi everyone and welcome to Beads Braids And Bows. 
I am sure that as I go on this should get better - they say the first time is the hardest...we'll see.

The four greatest creations I made are my children - okay I may have had some help - Paraic, Joanna, Katie and Ellie. Our home is in the beautiful city of Chester.

I enjoy all sorts of crafts - usually getting quite obsessive about my favorites. At the moment my "preferred" are jewellery, candles, clay and sewing. The list of disasters still tends to outweigh the successes!!

I shall be putting up many links and photos - once I have found them...this blog hopefully will help me keep everything in one place.

Loves & Hugs. Lor. xx