Spent this year and the year before working on beadwork and strengthening my skills in that, so there aren't many fully finished pieces from this time or the year before. And then 2022 was a very bad year for me as well, and I just didn't have the motivation to make things at the time, coupled with the job I had at the time eating up most of my schedule.
My first fully finished brooch! I started and almost finished quite a few, but this was the first one to be fully finished. Still very happy with how this one came out, and there is very little I would change if I did this piece again.
Wanted to see how Bugle Beads would do as an outline for brooches; didn't do too bad!
Wanted to play around with colors and just have fun with this one as well as try out the Delicas as a border... ended up not liking them much at all.
My first attempt at a skull design, originally tried to sell, but decided to keep it for myself after a few months of it not selling. Plan to make more skulls in the future.