A Touch of Royalty – EBW February Challenge

It’s that time again…. time to go and check out the beautiful entries for this month’s EtsyBeadWeavers Challenge!!!

My entry for this challenge is # 31 on the list:

Marie Antoinette – Pink Leather Cuff

There are 62 incredible entries for this challenge, so your challenge will be to pick just one as your favourite and vote for it before the 15th February!!!

So don’t put it off, go and check out the amazingly talented EtsyBeadWeavers Team and vote for your favourite entry!!! http://etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com/

Happy beading!!! 

BAO Items of the Week

Here are this week's items from the BAO.

My item this week is:

Pink Chic - Choker

I designed and made this piece for my sister Silvia's birthday which was last month. She likes very simple things and all that is pink (lucky for her she was blessed with 2 little girls, so she gets to do the pink thing a lot!).... and only silver!!! It took me a while to come up with the right combination of pinks and silver, but this was the result... and best of all she said she loved it (unless she only said so because she didn't want to hurt my feelings :-D).

Purchase and pay for this item between now and 8th March and receive 5% off + free shipping to anywhere in the world! :-)

Please visit the BAO and check out all the amazing bead artists that belong to this group and see what specials are being offered this week:
http://beadartoriginals.blogspot.com/

Bead Art Originals - Items of the Week

Less than 2 months till Christmas and Hanukah, which this year coincides with the Xmas holidays...  Get your presents early and go and check out what special promotions the very talented BAO  is offering every week and get those special gifts early with added bonuses or discounts!!!
http://beadartoriginals.blogspot.com/

My item of the week is Pink Flower

Purchase and pay for Pink Flower between now and 9th November and receive 5 % off + FREE registered shipping to anywhere!!!

This is one of my favourite pieces!!! I posted this piece while I was working on it showing its progress. Click on the links below to see those posts:

Pink Flower - Neckpiece - Part 1
Pink Flower - Neckpiece - Part 2 - Finished

for the love of.... black and pink - treasury

I managed to grab yet another treasury... I'm on a roll!!! :-)

Please go check out this beauty! :-)

This treasury expires Friday 17th October: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=29126

Last day to vote for the EtsyBeadweavers' Animal Instinct Challenge - Vote for your favourite!!!

BAO Items of the week and a Happy New Year!!!!

Here is my item of the week: Pretty in Pink Crochet Choker - purchase this item from now till October 5th and receive 10 % off + free shipping!!!

To see what specials are being offered this week by the talented members of BAO please visit the BAO blog by clicking on the link below:

http://beadartoriginals.blogspot.com/2008/09/bao-items-of-week-sep-29-oct-5.html

I also wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone (who celebrates it) a very happy, healthy and peaceful Jewish New Year - Shanah Tovah Ve Metukah!!!!!! :-)

To my EntreCard droppers, please accept my apologies, but I will not be dropping for the next 2 days and hope to catch up on all my drops in the days following the Holiday - May it be a great year!!!! :-D

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/

in PINK - Treasury

My dear friend Ale (Ixela) puts together the most beautiful treasuries. She has an amazing knack for finding new and interesting artists, which she features on her blog.

Thank you Ale for once again thinking of me and including my Elizabethan Cuff in this beautiful collection!!! :-)

This treasury will be active until Thursday 19th June, go check it out! :-)

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=50881

Tickled Pink - Treasury

Tickled Pink is right!!!! that is exactly how I felt when I woke up this morning (at the ungodly hour of 5 am) and found one of my all-time favourite pieces in GrandmaMarilyns' Tickled Pink Treasury. Thank you so much!

Pretty in Pink Crochet Choker

This treasury will be up until Monday 16th June, go check it out: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=50318

and check out GrandmaMarilyns' beadwork

Treasury

Yeahh!!! I'm in a treasury... I haven't been in a treasury for so long, I don't even recall the last time I was in one.... although I have to say, that I haven't been able to enter the treasuries in such a long time, so I may have been in one and I wouldn't have known... but thank you so much TotallyTwisted for including my Pink Flower in this gorgeous flowery list!!!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=42185 This Treasury expires on the 4th May at 11.48 pm US time. Go check it out, leave a comment, check it out by clicking on each item ;-)

Pink Flower

Here it is... finished at last!!!! :-)

Thank you to all of you who left me comments... I have taken the majority's advise, as I agree with you, and did not add the fringe... I just don't think it needs it... actually I don't think a fringe would add to this piece at all... so here is my Pink Flower... I like it!!! :-) let me know what you think :-)

Pink Flower (in the making)

I can't believe how long it has been since I last wrote!!!! shocking!!!

I won't bore you with all the details as to why I just couldn't... as far as I'm concerned you can blame it all on the builder of my flat (Ariel Soltzi Ltd.) who did not hold up his end of our legal contract and even when ordered to pay me by the courts... hasn't!!! so I live in a flat that has had more leaks than years, a lot more leaks!!! and he carries on building as though nothing happened and he has no legal nor moral responsibility!!!! As I don't want to be sued (ha ha ha) I will refrain myself from calling him every single name under the sun!!!! :-) please use your imagination :-)

So another leak fixed (and no thanks to the builder!) and finally I've been able to both post my progress and actually progress with it!!! it is almost finished, but in the mean time, as promised, here is the piece in progress...

Well it all started out with me finally getting round to clearing up my beading desk... I won't show you how bad it was before... but as you can see it's not even perfectly clean after :-) I'm just running out of space where to put all my beads and beading!!! :-) and as you'll see below... it didn't last long!!!! I want an additional table/room :-)

So basically I start off with pulling out all the beads I own that go with the mood I'm in at that moment.... and my mood lately has been pink! :-) I'm so not a girly-pink type of person... but lately pink is what inspires me....

and I do have to point out that the weather here has been soooo hot!!! yesterday was 37 degrees Centigrade in the shade!!!!! and all around are flowers in bloom... so maybe that's why I've gone a bit soft :-)

I bought these gorgeous vintage opaque pink glass teardrops from a fellow EtsyBeadweaver, JadeDogBeads and I had to use them!!! after all they are pink!!! :-)

so I started playing around with a geometrical design onto beadbacking... and started working around the teardrops, slowly building up the design till I got to this...

I used a flat Mother-of-Pearl bead for the centre and beaded around it and the teardrops with matte pink and matte burnt ivory type of colour... hard to explain but like a very rich cream mixed with toffee... Czech seed beads

so the centrepiece for the necklace is finished... sort of... cut excess beadbacking... glue to suede, cut around suede and sew the backing to the suede using brick stitch with the contrasting small beads...

and as I hate wasting material I decided to make a couple of elements from the left over bead backing... also to give the necklace a different element... not just because I hate waste :-)

Now all there is left to do is put the elements together :-)

Come back in the next few days to see how it all turned out... actually... could do with your help... leave me a comment letting me know whether you think I should fringe the flower or not.... I'm still completely undecided... would love to hear your opinions :-)

Back to the land of the living :-)

Yeah!!!! I got my new computer!!!! still trying to find my way around it and trying to finish installing all that needs to be installed.... but I have a new computer!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) I am very happy!!! :-) almost as happy as I was this morning when I found that one of the pieces that I posted about going on sale at 25 % off has sold!!!! yeah :-) always bitter sweet though, because I find it hard to let go of my creations sometimes and this is one of my favourites, but it has found a good new home :-) and I'm very happy...

will be adding more items on sale next week, so if you are interested check out my shop (http://www.triz.etsy.com/)

and I've been working on a new piece... here is a preview :-) I've taken lots of photos of this piece whilst I was working on it, so will post another photo-journal soonish :-) it's actually almost finished but now that I have an up and running computer I have to catch up with loads of work... but hopefully very soon :-) ish :-)

stay tuned :-)

Pretty in Pink

As soon as I saw these amazing ceramic beads at Bogal Ltd. I knew I had the perfect pink Czech seed beads at home, also from Bogal Ltd., that I purchased a few months back... and as always had no idea what I was going to do with them... I just liked the colour... they are this amazing dusty pink with a soft lustre to them.... I'm so glad I found the perfect bead for them! and back to the bead... I have another design already in mind using the same beads!!!

So here is my Pretty in Pink Choker... simple but oh so chic! :-)