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Cool design idea: silhuettes filled in with polygons in a harmonious colour scheme. While this example is long-stitch embroidery (a cool idea in itself), the idea could be applied to decorate other things with silhuette shapes, such as laser-cut wood shapes. (note that the original etsy shop which sold these no longer has anything there, so I'm using this blog as a reference rather than the original site)

Dragonscale in the round with a bit of gathering at the top, really looks like pinecones. That's really clever.

European 6-in-1 ring. Cool idea to make it an overlapping spiral band rather than just a straight band.

Various earrings, but the ones I am interested in are the Dyed Pink Coral Multi-dangles. These have five dangles with beads at the end, but the dangles are bent so that the earring looks like an upside-down tree with five branches. I like that.

What I like about this design is the hammered wire 3/4-circle which the dangly parts of the pendant are hanging from. It provides a calm balance to the busy-ness of the dangling briolettes.

What a splendid idea!

Nice design idea: satiny yarn for the "flowers" and green eyelash yarn for the "greenery".

Bee charm made from two black beads and golden wire - clever idea!

I like the layering in this; the large leaf, followed by the spray of small leaves, followed by the pinecone and acorn charms.

Lovely copper wire-wapping, including hammered and filed wire to look like a sword (with a proper point). Love the idea.

A rainbow made of ribbons, with a white dove and a crystal drop - I like this idea, evoking the end of the Flood.

Lovely but simple wire-work with thick wire around glass marbles; a set of three matched pendants, one above the other. (the original site has vanished)

Tutorial for an interesting marbled effect with embossing powder plus archive ink. Basically: pale embossing powder, melt, let cool, dab on ink, re-melt, let cool, dab on another colour of ink, re-melt, let cool.

A step-by step picture tutorial wrapping a gemstone-bead in a wider shape. Good to see how that kind of thing is done; I've seen lovely stuff in this style but not how it's done.

This "infinity scarf" attracted my attention because it starts off with knitted i-cord, and then does a traditional three-strand braid with five strands: two strands, two strands, and one strand. That slight asymmetry adds interest.

This idea could be used for jewellery-making as well as scarf-making.

(original page gone)

Beautiful combination of wire-wrapping and beads. I like how the beads are wired to the thicker wire so that it looks like a bouquet of flowers and fruit. (This listing from BellaJewelsII no longer exists)

Very chunky, industrial, almost Steampunk. Also interesting way of using flat wire.

Another one with one bead of contrasting colour, but the other thing I like about this is the six triangles in a curve. It might work with leaf-beads too.

A little too chunky for my taste, but I like the idea of a single bead of a different colour but the same size as the other beads. (Both item and shop have now vanished)

I like how this combines graduating big beads with longer stretches of small beads; it has a kind of rhythm.