Beaded Flowers

Goin' To the Fair
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The latest in my French Beaded Flowers "frenzy". I entered these arrangement in the state fair exhibits. The fair runs from Saturday September 20th though Saturday, September 27th, 3003 in Bloomsburg, Pa. I am pleased with them. I hope others are too.

Fall arrangement - has a huge yellow mum at the center, 5 light orange anemone mums, 5 red spider lilies, 6 stems of wheat, & 2 "clusters" made up of groups of red, orange & yellow fall leaves & big bunches of blackberries - all gathered together. The yellow mum ALONE has nearly 15,500 seed beads in it (15,322 to be exact). This arrangement won a second place ribbon.


			< Trying to show the berries - I guess I didn't get such a good picture.


My lady Head Vase - filled with 3 large pink roses, white carnations, several small daffodils, forget me knots, yellow Canna buds, blue hyacinths & a Mountain Laurel (the state flower). There is also a tiny beaded bubble bee on one of the carnations. This arrangement won the 1st Place Ribbon in the beadwork catagory.



A French beaded poinsettia Christmas tree ornament. It has a gold wire hanger attached at back. The poinsettia won a 4th place ribbon.

I created the patterns for the carnations before getting a copy of several old carnation patterns. So, they are a bit different. I also created the patterns for the Red Spider Lily by looking at pictures of this flower on the web. The yellow Chrysanthemum is adapted from a printed pattern I had that was far too small & too wispy for what I wanted. The blackberries too where simply something I made up as I went along.