Hiding… beading…

Still hiding in my bedroom from the world…. and of course beading… I hide to bead… and my bedroom had become my favourite place to bead… so yesterday I came to the realization that I’m really comfortable and happy in there and rather than have boxes and boxed of beads all over my bedroom floor I should find a solution… and I did… I got one of those metal trolleys (I used to keep my TV and video tapes on it), and I proceeded to fill all 3 shelves with all my beads and equipment that was spread all over my floors… this way I don’t have to feel guilty if I like beading in my bedroom, because now the beads have found their own place in there without driving me nuts! :-)

So another week locked up in my bedroom… and the result is lots and lots of new pieces… I got so into the beading that I couldn’t even tear myself away for a few minutes to take photos nor to list and blog about the 2 pieces I did mange to photograph…. but I finally had to take a breather so decided to start posting some of the pieces, and here are 2:

Bronze Vines on Turquoise – OOAK Pendant

Flower Power – OOAK Cuff


Both were created around Lisa Peters Art gorgeous ceramic cabochons… I just absolutely love using these… each one is different, unique and beautiful and I love combining them with the leather. Stay tuned, I have one more piece I created with Lisa’s cab as well as another leather cuff using turquoise stone and in a very bright leather… will post hopefully in the next few days… wishing everyone happy beading! :-)

EtsyBeadWeavers November Challenge

Voting has started over at the EtsyBeadWeavers’ Blog!!! The challenge for November is “Beauty of the Flower”! Go check out the lovely flower interpretation that the talented EBW members came up with this month and vote for your favourite!!!!

You may have noticed (or not) that I’m missing… well I have relatively good reasons… like the flu… but mainly because I’ve been busy making 3 new pieces and a couple of orders… and I just could not interrupt my thought process whilst I was working on the new stuff… come back in a couple of days to check them out!!! In the meantime pop on over to the EBW blog and vote for your favourite!!!!

www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com

Black Chic Flowers + BAO Items of the Week

After over 10 years of not being in touch, I was reunited with an old and dear friend of mine and yesterday she came over to my place to pick up the necklace and earrings I made for her to wear to her son’s bar-mitzvah. It was so nice to see her!!!! We spent years together, when we first arrived in Israel and both of us were single and carefree (she has 5 kids now!!!)… we partied in Tel Aviv a LOT! I remember her dancing on tables at this crazy bar! We had so much fun!!! and it was just such a pleasure to see her again!

She asked me to make a variation of the Black Chic Choker and matching earrings and here they are:

Judging from the huge smile, I think she was happy with them :-) and I asked her whether I could take a picture of her wearing them. Most of my pieces end up being shipped abroad, so I rarely get to see the person who bought them wearing them. She promised to send me photos of her wearing them at the bar mitzvah all dolled up! and I can’t wait to see them!!!

Here are this weeks BAO Items of the Week:

My item this week is: Triple Twist Bracelet

Purchase and pay for this bracelet between now and 22nd October and receive 20% off!!!

Visit the BAO blog to see all the other items on special this week: http://beadartoriginals.blogspot.com

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!!!

BAO Item of the week

Another stunning selection from the Bead Art Originals!!!

My item this week:

Purple Flower Necklace – OOAK

Purchase and pay for this necklace between now and 3rd September and receive 20% off!!!

Visit the BAO blog and check out all the other offers on these gorgeous items! http://beadartoriginals.blogspot.com/

First there were three….

In my previous post, I mentioned that I was working on 3 of LisaPetersArt’s beautiful ceramic cabochons… well I was… and I did… and then madness took over me and I cut them up!!!

So after spending two whole days embellishing the piece, I decided that I really LOVED the colours, and the cabochons, but the three together was just too much… I’d already started making the necklace strap for it, when it hit me how much nicer one flower would look on the necklace…. so off with the head! I chopped it! took the lining off, re-lined it, and beaded it again!!!

And here is what came out of my momentary fit! much nicer, I think… let me know what your opinion is, should I or shouldn’t I have cut it up… :-)

Water Lilly

I’m really pleased with how this piece turned out… now I have these 2 left (below)… what to do with them??? hmmmm…. :-)