Making Jewellery

I’m so excited!!! yesterday I received my copy of Making Jewellery and inside on page 24 is… yours truly!!! :-) so weird and wonderful to see a picture of my jewellery and of me in print on a 2 page spread!!!!

I wasn’t familiar with Making Jewellery magazine prior to them contacting me… but I have to say… what a great magazine!!!! I’m so impressed with it!!!

Loads of project (33 of them!) in all different levels (not beadweaving) in a variety of different jewellery making techniques… Fashion trends, product reviews, and so much more!!!

I already phoned my best friend in London and told him to go to the newsagent and get me 2 more copies! :-) one for my dad, and one to keep, as the copy I received I’m sure will be looked through a lot!!!

If you are into different jewellery making techniques, I would absolutely recommend this magazine!!!!

Check out their website for tips and projects: http://makingjewellery.com/

And… by the way, a shop in London just picked up 14 of my pieces of jewellery, including the Emerald Queen Necklace (seen on the left page) and the Water Lilly Necklace (Middle top, right page)… It’s been an excellent week!!! :-)

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend ahead!!!

BAO Items of the Week + a few features

Here are this week’s items from the Bead Art Originals… more eye candy! :-)

Visit the BAO blog and find out what offers are attached to these items for this week! http://beadartoriginals.blogspot.com

My item this week is Purple Graces Necklace

Purchase and pay for this necklace between now and 29th October and receive 20% off!!!

I’ve also been lucky to have some of my pieces featured in a few blogs:

All Things Bead and Beautiful featured Cosmic Carnival Bracelet, which sold since the article came out… coincidence? I don’t know, but thank you Linda of Wild Wicked Beads for featuring it in the great post about Tera Belinsky-Yoder of BeadyGirl Beads. Stay tuned, I have a few more of those gorgeous buttons and beads and will be making more pieces soon! :-)

Found Handmade featured one of my favourite pieces Blazing Flowers on their blog. If you like handmade items you have to check out their site, what a great place!!! http://foundhandmade.com

And last, but definitely not least, my Turquoise Shield OOAK Necklace is featured in a great article about the EtsyBeadWeavers in Zoya Gutina’s Newsletter! If you are not familiar with Zoya’s beautiful beadwork, you must check her out!!! It’s just gorgeous!!! And if you are interested in finding out what the EtsyBeadWeavers are all about I strongly recommend reading the article!!!
http://www.mylovelybeads.com

Thank you all for featuring my work and wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!!! :-)

I've been featured!!! :-)

It feels like a lifetime since I last posted something.... but I've been busy beading the Sherry Serafini's "A Mermaid's Attire".... it's so beautiful... but a LOT of work! :-) am looking forward to finishing it, hopefully tomorrow or the next day!!!.... I'm looking forward to starting a new original piece inspired by all that I have learnt from making this beautiful Serafini piece, but NOT following instructions - as much as I have enjoyed making this unbelievably gorgeous necklace, and as much as I would definitely buy a pattern again, especially another Sherry Serafini, I really don't like following instructions!!! I don't mind the first half... but having to repeat the same thing for the second half (left & right) is really mind-numbing to me!!! I just want to get on with applying all I learnt to my own designs!!! :-) but I promised myself I would finish it before starting anything else because it deserves to be finished - it's just SO beautiful - and as I will probably never own one of her beautiful original pieces, this is as close as I'll get to ever wearing one of her fabulous pieces, so I must finish it... and I know if I move on to something else now, I will never get back to it and it will lie in my "must-get-to-it-one-day-and-finish-this-piece box" together with all the other pieces I started and moved on to other work before finishing them! :-) they rarely see the light of day... only when a new one gets added to the box :-)

I was featured on a brand new blog!!!! Not only do I feel honoured to have been chosen but feel super-honoured for being the first featured artist on this blog!!! Thank you Linda for choosing me and my work!!! :-D Linda Faigen, who is the author of Thinking Out Loud, makes beautiful jewellery and these gorgeous hair sticks which you can see and buy at her Etsy shop!!!

Thank you so much Linda for the great write-up!!!

If you are interested in reading a bit about me, please visit: http://lfaigen.blogspot.com/2008/10/todays-featured-artist-amazing-work-of.html