Autumn at the beach - Treasury

I love this time of year, the light is changing, the temperatures are dropping to bearable (today was about 30 degrees Centigrade), the humidity is finally dropping to a level whereas you don't think of needing to take a shower every 30 minutes! :-) ...and my all-time favourite part of the day is those last few hours before and until sunset, where it's still warm, but you can feel the end of the day approaching and you are soaking in those last few rays... and you know that winter is only a few months away, so those moments are treasured even more.... and the colours that I see and feel are the inspiration for the treasury I just managed to grab!!! :-)

Go check it out!!! :-)

This treasury expires Wednesday 17th September: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=9126

Black Panther Earrings

I woke up this morning with a great desire to make the earrings that complement the Black Panther Necklace I posted about a few days ago...

 
These Black Panther Earrings were so much fun to make, my first pair of beadembroidered earrings!!! I think I did alright! :-D I'm really pleased with the result.  Usually I don't like making two of the same of anything but with beadembroidery I don't seem to mind... I'm going to try and make some more beadembroidered earrings.... on my to do list, with all the other stuff that's on it! :-)

I still have one beadembroidered Labradorite cabochon which I was thinking of using to make a bracelet .... but I'm yet to decide how to tackle the wristband part.... the wheels are still churning.... however slowly :-) I hope by next week I'll have something whipped up!!! :-) if not it may become a pendant! :-) come back and check it out! :-) 

An award!!!! :-)

I've received an award!!!!! :-)  I was nominated by Carol Dean of SandFibers - Thank you Carol Dean for all your wonderful support and encouragement and for creating my favourite pendant that has become almost permanently attached to my neck! :-)  and of course for nominating me for this award! :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can only say that this picture does not convey the beauty and delicacy of this piece - I have never received so many compliments wearing a piece of jewellery as I have with this piece!!!  I plan to own a whole collection of them in the near future, to match all my outfits!!! :-) here are some of my favourites: (please click on the pictures to be taken directly to these wonderful pendants' listings to read more about them)

 

 

Ok... now back to the award :-)

Here are the rules:

1. Add the logo of the "award" to your blog;

2. Add a link to the blog of the person who "awarded" it to you to your blog list;

3. "Nominate" at least seven other blogs;

4. Add links to those blogs on your blog;

5. Leave a message for each of the "nominees" on his or her blog.

Here are my nominations:

Amy of Amy Lilley Designs for her wonderful drawing, photos and blog
Alessandra of Ixela for her warm friendship, her whimsical designs and her blog featuring other artists as well as her work
Staci of Pink Pooch Designs for her wonderful photo bracelets and her equally wonderful friendship
Smadar of Smadar's Treasures for her wonderful blog, her stunning beadwork and her gorgeous blog
Waterrose Designs for her beautiful embroidered cuffs and rings and her wonderful blog
Nicole of Beadwright for her friendship, support, encouragement and for including my beadwork in her Flatwork book
Jean of Bangles & Beads for her beautiful bead-embroidery, her  wonderful art and her support and comments
To all the EBW and BAO members for their friendships, support, encouragement, but most of all for their wonderful talents!!!

a surprise treasury + EBW challenge voting

I was checking the Etsy treasuries and shockingly I got one - funny because I usually spend hours waiting for one and this time I really hadn't planned anything, so I had to improvise! but with so much talent in the Bead Art Originals, it wasn't too difficult to create, the only difficulty was choosing only 12 from such a huge selection of gorgeous pieces!!!

Go and check out this treasury and leave your comments! :-)

This treasury expires on Friday 12th September: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=6804

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, although I didn't enter this month's EBW Challenge, due to time constraints, voting has started, so go check it out and vote for your favourite piece form a selection of amazing bead-woven pieces!!!!

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

 

Bead Art Originals - Item of the week - Sept 8-14

 

My Item of the Week for this week is:  Black and Pearl Blossom Earrings - purchase these earrings between 8th-14th September and receive 10% off + free shipping to anywhere in the world!!!!
Visit my shop for more details: www.triz.etsy.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To check out the other specials being offered this week, please visit the Bead Art Originals blog: http://beadartoriginals.blogspot.com/2008/09/bao-items-of-week-sep-8-14.html

Black Panther Necklace

 

Finally!!!! I thought this piece would never be finished!!!!!!! I started working on this at the beginning of August, and although the actual centre piece was finished about two weeks ago, I couldn't decide what necklace to make for it.... originally it was going to have a band brick stitched in black matte cubes, and after I almost finished bead weaving half of it, I decided that it wasn't quite right... so I started bead embroidering smaller oval pieces around the labradorite cabochon that matched the centrepiece.  I made 8 altogether and after a week of playing around with them, I remembered that I had these gorgeous matt black onyx coin beads, which I bought because I loved them, not because I had any idea what I was going to make with them, so I started playing around with different combinations of the onyx coins and the bead embroidered cabochons until I finally go to a combination I was happy with, and here it is:  Black Panther Necklace

Due to my indecision :-) I ended up with three extra bead embroidered cabochons, therefore expect a pair of earrings in the near future and maybe (still not sure) a bracelet... so come back soon :-)