Designs in the Light Fall Collection

New Fall Collection Designs in our Shops this week...... 

Michael and I have been working with lush colors of jewel tones, deep burgundy merlot (the bottom left necklace)   purple, russet, rich copper and bronze metal clay and gorgeous art beads. Rich fall and winter colors and textures. We are just getting this season rolling and will be adding to our shops on a regular basis. 

My favorite time of year for designing. Well,  beach designs in summer my favorite time in summer.!!

ART SHOWS-- We wanted to remind our art show customers we will not be at all the shows you have found us showing in the past few years including Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, Sacramento, or San Jose this year. We have opted out of the shows for this season and wanted to make sure you can still find us at 
Designs in the Light Etsy or our website that features our gallery collections and more at Designs in the Light Website "Follow the Light"

NEW SUPPLY SHOP- I have opened a new shop on U Can Bead2, Etsy U Can Bead2 loaded with beading supplies for new artists who might not have great resources.  Also great for seasoned beader's who love artist beads and might not be able to find some great ones in my stash. Many of my art beads are no longer available as the artists have retired, so they are OOAK, one of a kind. You don't want to miss this!  

Something for everyone who loves to design jewelry. If you or a friend fits this group my little handpicked selections make great fall inspiration or gifts for the upcoming holidays. 
Check it out at U Can Bead2 Etsy "Inspiration from our studio to yours!" 

We continue to be inspired to design more beautiful than the last season. Its time to add something new to your wardrobe and the holidays are just around the corner. It's not to early to get started on your list. Please stop by our shops and check it out. Designs in the Light Etsy

NEW RETAIL SHOPS- We are always looking for boutiques, wineries, and galleries to show our designs. If you are interested or know of a shop please send us a message. c@designsinthelight.co

Thank you for stopping by and be sure to leave a comment or share this post. We love to hear from you. Michael and Cherrie "Follow the Light" 

Something New from Designs in the Light

Summer is officially over .......... UCanBead2 
We are offering a new shop on Etsy with something new to you. 

We just opened yet another shop!! In this business we love collecting, designing and playing with beads and have decided it is time to share a few of the many beautiful beads from our collection.

This project has been brewing in my little head for about 3 years or more. Over the past 8 years I discovered many wonderful art bead artists.  You might know most of my designing over a 2 1/2 years period when I was a published jewelry designer in Bead Trends included these beads. If you are an creative jewelry artist you know sometimes, you wait for the inspiration, or season, or just the time to design with some of those beads. Crazy, but we just can't help ourselves, right?

I have opened this shop U Can Bead 2 Etsy to share my collection with you. I have lovingly pulled little color coordinated collections with many of my favorite art beads.  The idea is if you add them to your stash you can easily find inspiration for several new pieces. Kind of like de-stashing with my twist.

Some of these art beads are no longer available as the artists no longer sell to my knowledge. That makes each little collection OOAK, one of a kind. Something you might not find anywhere else. It helps to revive the reason it was originally created. I'm hoping a win-win for everyone!!

Mike and I have worked together for the past couple years building our business.  We have sold to boutiques, juried art shows and online in our shops. Designs in the Light Etsy. We love the journey of finding pretty beads. We compliment each other in the choices, much like we have in other ventures we worked together on.

This year we have moved in a slightly new direction. We have not signed up for art shows. We miss seeing the ladies face to face, but it made sense with our schedule this year at least. If you have received this newsletter please follow us on face book Designs in the Light Face book and you get daily inspiration, news, special offers and lots of other stuff. Our jewelry is offered on our website Designs in the Light Website and Designs in the Light Etsy. If you have seen something in the past at our shows please send us a note to see if we still offer it.

Mike is busy designing amazing collections of metal clay of all kinds, and teaching this unique art at our local bead store, Beads on Main, in Vacaville, CA. Our plan is to sell his work in our website and galleries. We are looking for new galleries to offer this work to, so if you have any to recommend we are open to suggestion. We will also be offering selected bronze, copper, silver components in our new shop as well!! UCanBead2

I am still designing our beaded boho and nature collections and selling in several boutiques and online in our shops.

It is a lot of work keeping it all organized but it is the way we have found works for us. As soon as I get this shop up and running I will be listing some new jewelry for the upcoming fall season. Can't wait to do that!!

Here is a sampling of what you can find at UCanBead2 on Etsy..........U Can Bead 2 Etsy

Please leave a comment and tell us what is on your mind as you check out our news. We love to hear from you.

Last, if you are a jewelry customer and see one of these mixes that you would like a custom piece made up, don't wait, send me a note and we will see if that could happen.

Thank you from Michael and Cherrie "Follow the Light"

Bandon Dunes Pro Golf Shop

If you are lucky enough to have the Oregon Coast on your summer agenda "Designs in the Light"

Handcrafted Beach Designs. 

This week, just a few samples of our new handcrafted
artisan beach designs on the way to...... 

The Bandon Dunes Pro Shop in Bandon Oregon 

We love creating our beach designs for The Bandon Dunes Pro Shop. These designs and more will be available at the Pro Golf shop soon. We offer handcrafted art beads, glass, gemstone and handcrafted bronze designs. 

Summer is here, in fact the temperature is in the low 100's this week in CA and the beach is calling our name. Mike and I are in the studio busy creating for the shops that carry our lines and our own website Designs in the Light Website and our Etsy shop at Designs in the Light Etsy

SALE....... Both shops are on sale this week only to celebrate my birthday!! Yes I am a firecracker!

 Mike and I work hard to offer value at fair prices all year, but right now you can save 25% just by entering code JULY4THSALE. HURRY THIS SALE ENDS SUNDAY JULY 5TH. 

Thanks for following us and hope to see you this summer on line or at the shops that carry our designs. We will not be attending as art show vendors this year. So don't miss the opportunity to add to your Designs in the Light jewelry collection. New collections are always on the workbench. 

Thanks for stopping by and remember if you see a design in our galleries, blog, or shops sold items and might be interested in, please inquire to see if we have something similar or can re-create something special for you in the similar style, we love custom orders and do the best we can to make you happy. 

Michael and Cherrie "Follow the Light" 

HAPPY4th SALE is about to happen

This year is just flying by!! My goodness it seems each year I think that and it is really flying this year. We are half way through the year!........Enter SUMMER!!

This is just the beginning of summer and we love the beach. The designs above include a couple new designs I made on vacation. This is a new artist I am working with and I like the casual look so I ordered more beach art bead pendants today and have some ideas to continue working on and bringing to our shops soon.

Mike and Cherrie at the Farm

A church farm we visited. 

Our first boat ride in awhile, lovely dinner and ride with family and friends

After a couple lovely weeks in very green TN we are back home, then we spent a little over a week with our four grand-kiddos. This week we are knee deep in catching up.

We have special orders to fill and listings to catch up on. So you know where we will be.

On the table is lots of beach designs, a whole new bronze and silver line of botanicals, new colors of traveling boho wrap beacelets and a brand new line of wire wrapped beaded necklaces coming soon.

SALE for my Birthday!!! Please check our Etsy shop Designs in the Light Etsy and website Designs in the Light Website Please enter code JULY4THSALE at checkout and save 25% This only happens a couple times a year. We work hard to offer wonderful quality at a fair price so this is our gift to you. Thank you for continuing to support handmade!!! SALE June 26th- July 5th

After much thought this year we have decided to change things up a bit and work with the shops that carry our line and build our online business. If you met us at the wonderful Art and Wine shows in the Bay Area the past 6 years we will not be attending as vendors.

You can find us at Designs in the Light Website  and Designs in the Light Etsy
Please follow us on face book for daily inspiration, special offers and new listings as they are added in our shop. Don't miss out. Facebook Designs in the Light and Designs in the Light Pinterest

Happy Independence Day July 4th to our country. Enjoy your families and our country and a special deal from Michael and Cherrie "Follow the Light" 

New Collections in Vintage

Introducing a few new collections you can choose from.............

Boho Copper Vintage Dangle Earrings 

Everyday Vintage Copper Drop Earrings

These earrings are now available in our shop and can be ordered as shown or inquire about other gemstone or glass options in this design.


If you follow us you know we are all about designing together and we create textural colorful, boho and nature inspired jewelry. You can find coordinating jewelry in our shops.

Traveling Boho Wrap Bracelet and Everyday Vintage Copper Earrings

3 x wrap bracelet and hand tied beach bracelet

Hand forged wire wrapped earrings and beaded necklace or wrap bracelets

Handcrafted Granada Bronze Necklace, hand forged earrings, beaded necklace and wrap bracelet 

Wrap bracelet or necklace option with our beach art bead designs

Please follow us on facebook, we have lots of inspirational stuff including uplifting messages, fashion fun, news and special offers. Designs in the Light Facebook

Our website features designs not found in our Etsy shop so be sure to check it out. Designs in the Light Website

Our Etsy shop features our everyday line, special buy2 or buy3 savings when you purchase our coordinating designs. We also have a Spring Cleaning Sale going on now to close out some of last seasons designs.
Designs in the Light Etsy

So be sure to check us out. New listings all the time. Hope to see you!!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to FOLLOW THE LIGHT!! Mike and Cherrie

Designs in the Light Italia Collection

This week a few new beads blossomed into this little old world Italia Collection.........

 I love the colors in these pieces. They coordinate with other designs that Mike and I have designed and the collection grew until I ran out of time this week. Look for new pieces in this collection coming at a later date.

Vintage! 

Tapestry! 

Bronze!

Copper! 

Beaded!

Urban Chic! 

These pieces can be found in our shops at Designs in the Light Website

and Designs in the Light Etsy

Thanks for stopping by. We always love to hear from you. Leave a message and share with your friends. "Follow the Light" Mike and Cherrie

Designing beach inspired jewelry this week

Our week as we dream of the Oregon Coast...........

Enjoying wonderful spring weather, Mike and I have been busy filling orders for our various shops that carry our line. You can find an assortment of new handcrafted earrings designed by Mike at Harney Lane Winery in Lodi California.

This collection is on its way to the Bandon Dunes Golf Pro Shop on the Oregon Coast.............

One of our favorite places to live or play is the beach. We design with our inspiration of the 

 colors, textures, and light we find in nature. 

Our ocean inspired collection includes artist beads from several of our favorite art bead designers like Tina Francis and Gaea of CA,  Nan Emmett  of Texas,  and Raida Disbrow from Florida and 

Amanda Austin of the Oregon Coast

 Along with the beautiful art beads we design with natural stone, fresh water pearls, Czech glass, sterling, brass and copper, and Mikes hand crafted bronze.

Next  Mike is working on a custom order gentlemen' s ring and we will be working on our gallery collections that can be found in our website at Designs in the Light Website and our Etsy shop at Designs in the Light Etsy

We design most of our line with coordinating pieces and you can save right now when you purchase coordinating jewelry in our Etsy shop. Check it out.

Mike is also teaching Bronze clay beginners class at Beads on Main Beads on Main in Vacaville next weekend April 25-26 and Advanced Bronze clay with mold making using botanical collected in hte bonus day. May 16-17. If you are interested in these classes please contact Beads on Main, to sign or get on the list for the next classes.

This year we are looking for several additional galleries and boutiques that are interested in carrying one or more of our collections.  If you are interested or know someone who might be please contact us at c@designsinthelight.co

Thanks for stopping by and as always we love to hear from you. "Follow the Light" Mike and Cherrie