Just about anything is fodder for Diane Hyde’s eclectic, multilayered jewelry: found objects, quirky oddities, old images, and vintage materials. Beaders will love exploring her whimsical style and learning how they too can create beautiful pieces from seemingly ordinary, everyday things. Diane reveals her special, accessible techniques for working with these items, and presents 22 fanciful, fun projects, including a pendant with a wine cork affixed to a Pierrot doll head and embellished with bicone crystal beads; clever Light It Up Earrings, with mini lightbulbs haloed with floral-shaped beads; and figurines, necklaces, bracelets, and more!Â
This is a valuable resource for your library. I ordered this with great anticipation back in October, and it was truly worth waiting for,I have an extensive library of books on jewelry making, as my art spans across multiple disciplines.This book covers technique very thoroughly, and very intuitively. I am primarily self taught, using rare classes, and primarily books, for developing my skills. The how-to’s are very well illustrated, and easy to follow.Having seen Diane’s beautiful work, and bought components from her web…
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS AND FULL OF INSPIRATION! I am a big fan of Diane Hydes work. She is a brilliant beader who likes to take risks and do her own thing. Her work is detailed and it is fun and interesting and different from the main stream. She uses weird stuff to make beautiful jewelry. She marches to her own drummer. As a beader myself I have grown to be the same way. I just needed to do my own thing! After beading for the majority of my life the few beaders who really go to this odd and interesting place started to find each…