koi.beads

02/04/2026

02/03/2026

I wear Koi Beads every day, frequently many items I have made but not bothered to put in my shops. (Not the greatest move for my little business, LOL.)
But choosing which bracelets to wear each day is a sweet, quiet ritual and I would love more people to have the ritual and the bracelets! Maybe someday I will find my marketing mojo. 😇 Probabky not today.
Shown here, from top: round mixed tourmaline (pinks and reds and olives and greys); Indian bloodstone (deep green kissed with mauves and pinks); shaded facted tourmaline (green to pink and back) with a stunning cathedral bead at the center; and my birthday stone, faceted garnet.

10/19/2023

The finished pinecone piece: 64-inch wristlace made of tiny beads in various autumnal shade, to wear triple-wrapped as a necklace (as shown), or wrapped 6 or 7 times on your wrist, the pinecones happily dangling like the charm bracelets of yore (except: silent).
Will be in my shop soon. $52. Or DM if interested.

10/14/2023

Dainty, small beads in allllll the fall-leaf colors, adorned with minature copper pinecone charms. Fallcore!

10/11/2023

I can’t even with the fall colors on my workbench. And this is only part of it all. 🍁🍂

10/08/2023

Solved my color mix for these gorgeous, nugget-y picture jasper chunks. Will be a long wristlace dotted with alternating blue-green/gray and mustard/russet jasper. Fallll colorrrrrs! 😍

09/17/2023

You were right. The aqua beads are best. Here’s the finished product: beaded , which you can wear as a wrap bracelet or a short or long necklace. Made on stretchy cord so it’s easy to wear. Will be available in shop shortly ($58) or DM for 15% off.

09/13/2023

Which colorway is more irresisitible? I can’t decide.
A) aqua-lined light topaz beads, to pick and and emphasize all the colors in the sea sediment jasper?Or B) caramel luster beads, to work with the warm tones in the jasper? Let me know your thoughts, please.
And FYI: sea sediment jasper is a manmade combo of variscite — the sea sediment — and resin and dyes, so the colors aren’t natural but they’re soooo pretty. :)

09/13/2023

New color mix happening: taupe and mocha and creme and marbled rose and pink topaz, to go with these amazing rectangular gemstone rectangles and the mottled mossy-green Czech melon beads. Mmmm. Colorsssss.

09/12/2023

These are inexpensive pearls — still practicing, can’t take the plunge just yet — but I am LOVING the lilac knots and the three tanzanite gems with these silver/plum/seaweed pearls! (And yes, that’s a real color category, seaweed — the greenish-gray ones vs the silver-gray.)

09/06/2023

What I’m playing with right now. Loving the colors and patterns in the polychrome and the stone-finish that almost match.