Give Your Leftover Beads a Makeover!

Transform those thrift shop or yard sale beads into original works of art! Use wood, plastic, metal, resin, bone beads, inexpensive colorants, add ribbon, fiber, foil, rhinestones, and more to get beads uniquely yours. Our Altered Bead Guide lists eight different techniques that you can combine to get dozens of effects!

Acrylic Flowers and Leaves

Beautifully molded and finished translucent mat-finished acrylic flowers and leaves. Flowers include morning glories, dogwoods, baby's breath, Iris, Calla Lilies, colorful leaves.... Lightweight and saturated with color, these flowers are great for any project that needs them in clusters and colors.

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Sculptural Sun faces

These are similar from the sun faces above and cast from the same wood carving. In this case I have left some of the rays on them and textured them to give the a unique look. Some have a hole top to bottom through the edge of the 1/4 to 1/2" thick surface, which will allow wire up to about 22 gauge (possibly even 20 gauge) to go through. We'll be glad to try and get within the color family you request, but cannot guarantee how many rays are showing or how they show. See more pics and colors

Celestial beings have moods, too! Just like comedy and tragedy, we've got Smirky and Pouty They are available in a variety of colors and holes are vertical. You get a mix of the two. Between 3/4" and 7/8"

A totally stately head (2" high) has eyes closed and looks like the Cheshire Cat! "The Content Moon" Available in a variety of solids and subtle patterns as well as the option of making it a badge holder! Review sizing, colors, other samples of the Content Moon

So fun and part of my celestial collection a Sulky Sun face with poochy cheeks and thick lidded eyes this sun face has been out playing with the moon all night! 1 3/4" in diameter, the hole is through the center. This sun face can easily be made into a badge holder (see our new Badge Holder series) as well as a fabulous pendant or embellishment.

Totally different, this "Crescent Moon" is really fun! The entire crescent is 3 1/4" high and about 2" wide, and packs a punch! The hole is horizontal, right above the eyebrow, so it can be strung as a simple pendant, or beaded with stars and a whole galaxy of planets. Great fun! Review sizing, colors, other samples of the Crescent Moon

Torsos, Cameos

Cameos

Critter (cat, dragon, butterfly)

Hand cast out of polymer clay, these beautiful dragonfly and butterfly hearts are hand-detailed with Pearl-Ex powders before firing to bring up the exquisite detail of the casting. Offered in rose, purple, pearl, teal, blue, black, silver and copper. Review colors, sizing more details on the Butterfly Hearts and Dragonfly Hearts.

Kitty Faces are purrfect! . They're fun, have small clay eyes, vertical hole and are about the size of a dime. Hand cast, no two the same. Look at a group of them. Calico, copper, gray, white... each has its own personality.

Much like the imperial dragon, this flowing dragon has a art nouveau feel to it. Details brought out with mica touches, and offering a horizontal or vertical drill. This beauty is nicely detailed. Check them out. Perfect for focal bead or unique collage element.
$5.00 each

Fun, unique and interesting, the "Lizard/Dragon Head" boasts big pearl white eyes with little black pupils, black "eyeliner" for emphasis, and black nostrils at the end of its snout. Fully sculpted, this head has no specific orientation. The hole is from the back of the head to the end of the snout. Available in a variety of color families.

Review sizing, colors, other samples

Faces with Kitz

Sun face with Pearl Kit

Urchin with Chain Dreadlocks?

Once the chain "hair" is on, this face is fabulous!! A very versatile face, this face is hand cast out of polymer clay. It is 1 3/4" high 1 1/4" wide and has a very subtle expression with the exception of its deep set eyes!
Kit contains:
24" Colored chain (blue, gold, green, black or purple)
Head pins, jump rings, pieces of:
flower drops, mini stars, leaves & more, color-coordinated for the hair

Goddess/Decorative

Art Deco? Wonderful mysterious fashionable Feather-Hat Woman is a treat. Featuring glass bead eyes, hand painted (before firing) "feathers" and highlights, she looks ready for a night on the town. She's got a vertical hole from "v" top to bottom. She's about 2" high. She can easily be made into a badge holder (see our Badge Holder series)

Our "Nymph Head" can look as unique as you'd like! Standard configuration:
with head pins across the top for attaching chain or beaded hair, pierced ears, additional option, a pin back already baked on.

A cutely pouting and well detailed face, perfect for everything. occasions. "Pouting Face " They are available in a variety of colors and holes vertically or horizontally.

Review sizing, colors, other samples of this cute face

Demure but stately head (2" high) has her eyes closed and a wonderful Mona Lisa smile. "I'm calling it the Demure Head" Available in a variety of solids and subtle patterns as well as the option of making it a badge holder!

Review sizing, colors, other samples of the Demure Head

Totally unique this is a Mardi gras Celebration Face (part of the comedy/tragedy theatre pantheon) She's got a vertical hole from "v" of her top crown and out the bottom of her chin. She's about 2" high.

For die hard Mardi Gras celebrators, she can easily be made into a badge holder (see our new Badge Holder series)

Face: $4.00 each, or 4 for $15.00.
Mardi Gras Head with badge holder back: $7.50 each

Smiling nymph-like in a nest of grapes and leaves, the "Harvest Girl Head" is beautifully tinted with pearl-ex mica powders in green, purple, pink, copper and gold. Available in a variety of solids it is 3" high and the hole for stringing is horizontal and 1/4 inch down from the top so it makes a wonderful pendant! Review sizing, colors, other samples of the Harvest Girl

Flower

Put flowers in your hair, or anywhere! Hand cast out of polymer clay, this bouquet of pansies, daises, daffodils, petunias all have horizontal hole for stringing on cord. Sold in groups of 4, color families: reds, blues, purples, pastels.

Review colors, sizing more details on the Mini Flowers.

Fabulous Flower Cups Timeless blossoms of lightweight polymer clay flower caps are perfect for all types of jewelry projects. Hand made from Polymer clay with center holes, gently cupped for realism, these colorful cups make great bouquets, earrings, rings and so much more! They come in 2 sizes, the small is the size of a dime, the large is the size of a quarter. Holes are large enough for an eye pin, 1mm cord or 20 gauge wire. Assorted Colors Only. Doz Small $6.00 Doz Large $8.00

Make a lovely flower necklace with these beautiful flower beads. Hand cast out of polymer clay, this 1" dia. flower is beautifully shimmering by delicately hand accenting with mica powders.The trumpet-like shape gives us the perfect place for drilling the hole--horizontally, halfway down the stem, making it hang perfectly. Review colors, sizing more details on the Hybrid Hibiscus.

HYBRID HIBISCUS NECKLACE KIT
The Basic Kit has crystals, pressed glass flower and leaf beads, eye pins, connector beads and instructions. The Full Kit adds the beading wire, chain and spacers. Review kit contents

Tribal (assorted 4 tribal masks $12 )

A"Fierce Face Mask", this 1" high rough-cut mask has a trace of pacific island to its look. Add tinting with mica powders to bring out the accents and its fabulous. With a vertical hole and almost a 1/2" thick, he's a real serious addition to any tribal look necklace. Review colors, sizing, and other samples.

I call him "The Chief" and he looks very regal with a crown-like head and a nicely cut beard. With a horizontal hole through the top third and measuring about 1 3/4" high, he's a real serious addition to an interesting necklace. Review colors, sizing, and other samples.

Everything Else

The Caribbean Mask

Exotic, but oh so cool! I love the detail in this face, althought it always needs a little bit of "touch up" after a cast. But it is a very, very unique face!

Make your own crowd! A potpourri of heads of various types and styles. Perfect for decorating a small piece of jewelry or as funky earrings! "Small Head Bonanza" Available in assorted colors only and priced for experimentation! You get 6 small heads.

Review colors, sizing more details on the small head bonanza.