New Gallery

hi, again -

i'm so happy to report that Laura Teague Jewelry has been accepted at the jewelry store Sabai, here in Baton Rouge. It is a beautiful store and i'm very excited to have some of my jewelry shown there. Peggy Day, the manager, took several bracelets and earrings from my inventory to have in her shop. If you are in town, go by and check it out. It is located in mid-city, near the intersection of Claycut and Jefferson Hwy, near Government Street. This gives me a second location in Baton Rouge - the first is at the LSU Museum of Art in downtown Baton Rouge, so this gives me a new location in the mid-city area. Perfect! Click here to visit Sabai online.

More lampwork jewelry photos, maybe

ok, coming to you again from laurateague.com.....still trying to get more pics uploaded for your viewing pleasure. ooooh, now it's working! this photo is a little dark, but hopefully you can see it. i'm really happy with how this came out. i especially like the nice-sized hammered mobius that you can see here at the top of the photo. i love to make tiger beads & i had a great time designing this bracelet using my own handmade glass tiger beads, a small solid black bead that i also made of glass and sterling silver wire. i guess at lea
st one other person liked this bracelet because it was stolen at a recent show. oh, well, at least i have a picture. btw, all of these lampwork/sterling silver link bracelet are OOAK - one of a kind. i will use certain elements more than once but i never duplicate a bracelet exacly; what would be fun in that? want to stand out in a crowd? get yourself one of these babies!! something different, oh, yeah!

Enough bracelets for now - how about a gorgeous, OOAK necklace with a big handmade glass bead? what do you think? i was very happy with the way it came out - lots of movement, thanks to the little hammered rings near the focal bead balanced with some more "orderly" smaller rings reaching all the way to the back. finished of course, with a handmade swirly clasp.

these are not on my website yet but there are lots of other goodies there - come take a peek if you're interested in sterling silver jewelry for real women! laurateague.com

More pictures

Well, on that last post, i said "here are a COUPLE of pictures".....i added one then, when i tried to add another, blogger wouldn't allow it. odd, eh? anyhow, i'll try again here.....hmmmmm still not working. wonder what the problem is. any ideas out that? guess i shut down & start back up & see what happens.

Sterling Silver and my own glass beads

so, finally, the long promised photos of a somewhat new endeavor. i have been wanting for some time to combine a couple of passions: lampwork bead making and silver wire jewelry. i have been making beads for awhile, often selling the beads themselves or just on a simple black leather cord which, although nice enough, wasn't very satisfying somehow.

When i was accepted to the Arts Council of New Orleans monthly art show in Palmer Park, I took the opportunity to really focus on this, using the date of the first New Orleans arts market as my goal. Here are a couple of pictures of my first work combining these two art forms.