Laura’s been steadily beading all year long, in between teaching classes at Bead Lounge in Longmont and polishing up her metal working skills. She’s made several beautiful new beaded dolls, an will see her work published in upcoming books by renowned bead artist Heidi Kummli and Sarajane Helm of PolyMarket Press. These dolls range from 3 inches to around 10 inches tall.
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Tags: beads, books, Heidi Kummli, PolyMarket Press, spirit doll
Laura is an instructor and sells her jewelry at The Bead Lounge in Longmont, Colorado. Every year they host a Day Of The Dead Celebration and gallery competition. Here’s a look at the beaded entries by Laura this year. Paper roses and a bony skull testify to ephemeral life’s beauty!
The jaunty gent features a glass skull made by MAD Margie. Lots of little beads–and a feather in his hat– went into the creation of this wearable art twosome.
Tags: beads, Day of the Dead, fused Glass, jewelry, skulls, wearable-art
LandS Glory will be at the Lyons Outdoor Market every Saturday in June. Last weekend was the first of the season for us and the weather was gorgeous. Here are a few pictures of Laura’s displays. You can see everything from her intricately bead embroidered collar featuring ceramic flowers and a ceramic face, her Spirit Dolls, necklaces, Precious Metal Clay silver and bronze clay pendants, beaded bracelets, and more! Please do come see in person at
Tags: beads, jewelry, Lyons Colorado, necklace, PMC, Precious-Metal-Clay, spirit doll, wearable-art
June 5, 12, 19, 26 2010
Saturdays 10AM-4PM
Lyons Outdoor Market 446 Main St Lyons, Colorado
Laura Humenik LandS Glory Artisan Jewelry and Sarajane Helm Creative Connections will be at the Lyons Colorado Outdoor Market on the Saturdays in June. Art, music, food and fun in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains! Bring your friends, and come see us there. We’ll have hand dyed clothing and accessories, ceramic, polymer clay, metal clay and glass components and finished jewelry, and more!
Tags: beads, fused Glass, jewelry, Lyons Colorado, PMC, shows, wearable-art
Laura has done it again! Another fully beaded doll with a clay face, this time one of her own design.
All those seed beads and larger glass and metal beads add to this beautiful doll’s weight, and she’s exuberant and impressive all at once.
Laura has gone all out with beaded hair as well, and says she spent approximately 60 hours on this one too. She loves projects like this and still finds time to work on bead weaving and making new ceramic faces, beads, and components for upcoming projects.
Check back to see them soon!
Tags: beads, dolls, emboidery, seed beads
This beautiful spirit doll is 8 inches tall, sports a wild mane of hair and is beaded all over, front and back. Her name is Passion, and she shows a real love of seed bead embroidery.
She started out life as a commercially made 8 inch white cotton doll body and a face made of polymer clay by Sarajane Helm.
Laura often dyes the doll body on a spirit doll, but this one is fully beaded. It required 60 hours of stitching to get her to this exquisite state, and several tubes of beads.
More than forty beading needles got bent out of shape during the process, but Laura had a wonderful time creating her. The results are certainly worth it!
Click the image to see the larger versions of the pictures.
Tags: beads, embroidery, polymer clay, spirit doll
lotuspendant front, originally uploaded by landsglory.
This PMC pendant features a buddha figure and lotus in silver with applied patina, and a ruby cubic zirconia.
This pendant features a serene and sympathetic buddha patinated in a green finish. The lotus flower enshrines the buddha in raised detail.
Tags: buddha, cubic zirconia, lotus, patina, PMC, Precious-Metal-Clay, serenity, silver, sympathetic
Day of the Dead Necklace 2, originally uploaded by landsglory.
Laura started with colorful vintage ceramic beads and added carved bone skull beads and precious metal clay (PMC) to create this vivid necklace for the Day of the Dead celebration. It’s her second entry in the competition at Nomad Designs, a bead store located in Boulder Colorado.
The large carved bone skull has a PMC hood or niche festooned with stars and her trademark colorful patina makaes the fine silver shine with color.
The smaller skull beads are nestled in their own PMC settings and makeup the bottom of the beaded tassel. Laura links it all together with patinated wire.
Tags: beads, bone, Boulder, ceramic, Day of the Dead, necklace, PMC, skulls, vintage, wearable-art
Day of the Dead Necklace 2, originally uploaded by landsglory.
This necklace is titled “I won’t go out without my hat”, and it is made with beads of Czech glass and cow bone as well as a Precious Metal Clay pendant. The pendant features a skull with jaunty feathered hat and bowtie, and ruby eyes. Cubic Zirconia add even more sparkle to the mix, and the patina on the fine silver metal pendant gives a rainbow of colors.
This is one of two necklaces that Laura has made for the “Day of the Dead” contest at Nomad Designs in Boulder Colorado.
Tags: beads, Boulder, cubic zirconia, Day of the Dead, jewelry, PMC, Precious-Metal-Clay, silver, wearable-art
amphora1, originally uploaded by landsglory.
This delicate amphora shaped pendant LOOKS like an antique thats been salvaged from some ancient undersea wreckage, but it is a modern marvel instead. Laura uses PMC (precious metal clay) to create pendants, pins, and beads. This clay is made of reclaimed silver suspended in a modeling material that is fired away after shaping, leaving fine silver.
Laura then uses special chemicals to create patinas that mimic age and weathering to give an antiqued look, or to bring out vivid blues, greens, and purples in the silver.
Tags: PMC, silver, wearable-art
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