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 :-)

don't want the summer to end!!!! - treasury

Finally managed to get a treasury!!!  wasn't easy, and at one point, just after I had written the title, it looked like I was going to lose it and I couldn't get back into it.... my heart stopped, I became almost irate - mainly because I've been sitting at the computer for the last 3 hours waiting for it... but I tried one more time and YES!!! managed to get back into it and load these beauties up!!! :-)  now I can go to sleep, hopefully :-)

Well I'm a summer person - I moved to Israel from London because as much as I LOVE London, the weather there just depressed me to no end, and even though it's still unbelievably hot here, there is this underlying feeling that the summer is about to end, and unlike other places where there are four season, Israel seems to only have two - summer and winter.... there's not much warning between seasons, one minute it's bloody hot, the next miserable and cold.... and I just don't want it to end!!! :-)  I looked for items that would remind me of gorgeous hot early summer evenings, just before the sun sets and this is what I found! :-)

This treasury will expire on Tuesday 9th September, so please go check it out: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=6267

Bead Art Originals - Items of the week 1st-7th Sept

I'm back!!!!!!!!!!! :-) OK so I took an unplanned but oh so much needed couple of weeks off.... My best friend Michael Onona (check out his art work) from London surprised me with a totally unexpected visit.... I haven't seen him in almost a year and a half, so it was a good... no, a GREAT very welcomed visit!!! :-) and he convinced me to take some time off... so I did!!! or at least I tried... I still had to do some things and of course I still had to bead at least a couple of hours a day... but the rest of the time we went to the pool, the beach and just hang out at my place.... we even went out to Reggae night at my local beach bar with my favourite live band and I danced the night away!!!!  (haven't done that in about a year)  and now in retrospect, although I'm very behind with everything, I realise that I really needed to slow down and as they say... smell the roses a bit!!! :-) Michael went back to London on Friday and my son started a new year at a new kindergarten today.... so slowly slowly things are going back to normal :-)

Here are this week's items of the week for the BAO.  Go check them out and see what specials are on offer this week from this wonderful group of artists:

 

 

My item for this week is Black and Pearl Pendant:

Go visit the Bead Art Originals's blog to see what special offer is on this piece! :-)

 

 

I'm currently working on a rather large bead embroidered piece - I'm hoping it will be finished by next week - I have been working on it for the most part of August and as I keep changing my mind, it's taking a bit longer than usual :-) but it's so worth it!!!! so come back soon and check it out!!! :-)