Hello and welcome! It's December and the festive season will be with us very soon. I have an array of beautifully handcrafted Beaded Beasties frames that would make unique gifts or decor pieces. I hope you will enjoy looking at them.

This page is home to Beaded Beasties: mixed media box frames of dragonflies and other creatures in a mini environment. Each one unique, made from new and recycled materials. I hope you love what you see.

Do please also take a look at my other page: DArTworld - Digital Imaginings for greetings and occasion cards and prints.

Beautiful box frame artworks of beaded dragonflies and other insects.

Along with my partner, I was self-employed for thirty years, first as a guest house owner in Fife and Argyll and then a gift retailer in Melrose in the beautiful Scottish Borders, but after closing the shop in 2017 I decided to use my time to explore my creative side.

I love photography and so my first foray was in reinventing my photographs as vibrant digital images. You can find some of them as cards and prints in my first Folksy shop: DArTworld - digitalimaginings.

More recently, I have been intrigued by the idea of creating small artworks of beaded insects and other creatures with their own mini environment. For these I use a mix of new and recycled materials including old jewellery, raffia, pebbles, glass nuggets, leather and cotton cord and recycled greetings cards!

Dragonflies are one of our oldest and most fascinating insects with their unusual shape and vivid colouring so I love finding a selection of beads to create each one. Although I base my makes on real creatures, they are not intended to be anatomically or zoologically correct, simply colourful interpretations.

I hope you love them as much as I do.

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