Front Page! thanks Olala Design!!!

I've only been on the front page 3 times including this one!!!! and the last two times has been because of Olala Design!!!! thank you so much Olala Design... must be something about the way you make them! :-)

Carmen necklace - black and grey felt flower, metallic button, long necklace with silver pompons and crystal beads

 

 

 

 

Thank you so much for including my Black and Pink Pearl Pendant and getting me to the front page not once but twice!!!!!!!! :-)

 

 

 

  

 

 

Also thank you MaryLou of time2cre8 for capturing this screen shot, otherwise I would not even have known!!! :-)

Just a Scribble - Beadwoven Peyote Cuff (2815)

 

 

 

and one last thing.... don't forget to go to the EtsyBeadWeavers' blog and vote for your favourite ART DECO beadwoven piece!!! :-) http://etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com/

ART DECO EBW Challenge

 

Voting for the EtsyBeadweavers August  ART DECO challenge has started!!!!! :-)

Go and check out the amazing entries for this month's challenge and please take a few moments and vote for your favourite!!!! - from 9th-15th August - only 6 days left to vote!!!! don't put it off!!! :-) 

http://etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com/

My entry for this challenge is entry # 2

Purple Graces

 

 

Kindergarten teacher's presents!

Tomorrow is my son's last day at kindergarten and last year at this particular one where he has been going for 3 years!!!! Next year he will be joining the system!!! :-) meaning he will be entering the mandatory state kindergarten... not so sure how I feel about that... but more importantly not so sure how he will feel about it... as he is leaving all his friends (not one of them is going to the same place next year) but I'm sure we will both survive! :-)

I wanted to give something special to these 6 wonderful women who have been looking after my son during the year and some of them have been with him for the whole 3 years.... The care he received there is way above and beyond what is called for in their job description... so I wanted to make them something each... and here is what I've been making for the them in the last few days.... the hardest part was deciding which one gets what... I hope I made wise choices and I hope they'll like my little tokens of affection and gratitude! :-)

Oh yes.... and I almost forgot.... during my lunch break, I managed to get a Treasury and I filled it with some of the amazing entries for this month's EBW Art Deco challenge - voting starts the 9th August - but in the meantime go check out this treasury! :-) http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=21103

This treasury expires Sunday 10th August: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=21103

Bead Art Originals - Items of the week (4th - 10th August)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bead Art Originals are presenting this week's items of the week. 

This is a brand new feature! Starting this week, every Monday the BAO blog will be featuring selected items with some special offers attached to them.  Go take a look!!! :-)

http://beadartoriginals.blogspot.com/

Flaming Wall Flower

 

 

 

Finally managed to finish the bracelet I started a few days ago using those gorgeous large Delica beads.... and for some reason I seem to be stuck on making those brick-stitched flowers I've been making lately... but it works so well with this bracelet that I couldn't help myself!!! :-)

 

 

 

 

 

I'm quite happy with how the actual bracelet turned out!!! and it looks so much nicer, more vibrant and luscious in real life... but what I'm really unhappy with is my photography!!! yuck... and these are  the best of over 150 shots I took....  I just found it really hard to photograph the red and purple!!!  If anyone out there knows what I'm doing wrong or has any advice for photographing these 2 colours then please, please, leave me a comment with your suggestions, because I'm at my wits ends... and it's not the first time I had problems with these colours... I tried taking the photo in the flat, outside, in the shade, in more shade... although I must say the darker the shade the better it looked... but am still not very happy with the results... at least the bracelet turned out pretty nice!!! :-)

So unless someone can suggest how I can improve on photographing these 2 colours, I may have to stop beading using this combination, and I have to say, that would be a tragedy as it is one of my favourite colour combinations!!!!

For more information on Flaming Wall Flower Bracelet please visit  my Etsy shop, thank you! :-)

 

Seeing Red!

I bought these gorgeous red large Delica beads a few months ago from Bogal Ltd., and I really love the colour, so I figured I would just start using them and see where it takes me... this is my effort so far :-)

 

 

 

Obviously red is on my mind, and it was about time that I created a treasury, so I did! :-)  This treasury features some of my new Bead Art Originals team members.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=20484 (expires Sunday 3rd August) Go and check out these pieces and visit the artists shops.  Search for BAO team and see all of the amazing talent that makes up this wonderful new team!

Bead Art Originals is a newly formed Etsy street team, comprising of both artists that bead and artists that create beads.

Above is only a small taster of this new team and of what is to come!  Please go and visit Bead Art Originals: web site  and blog and meet the artists!