Looks like I'm the first to blog with SS pics.......

S'ok it's not a problem, here goes........

And a rather posed pic of me wearing it.
Heheh I was rather chuffed that it went quite well with my new top bought last month! I kid you not. So there you go ladies..........NEXT!? Jen. X

Tis the night before Christmas........

and peace reigns within. Not a bead or a button is in sight of these wimmin. So lay your heads gently on the pillow tonight, for morning will bring such a wonder of delight.
Merry Christmas Divas. XXX

My sisters xmas present

A herringbone and caged bead necklace. I used twisted tubular herringbone with delica steel grey beads and czech silerlined blue and grey beads. Then caged the lampwork beads with miyuki cubes and silver hex beads. The pictures aren't too flash sorry.





Don't worry she wont look on here...

Also I wanted to post a link to the most amazing blog I found today, it's beadweaving and written in hungarian but the pictures speak for themselves.
http://vezsuzsigyongyei.blogspot.com/

Cheers
Penny

P.S.

I just got photos of my first finished spiral experiment I took a bit of inspiration from The Beading Banshee. It is a variation on dutch spiral, I started following her patttern but soon took off in my own direction.

The Tease - the rest of the Parts :)

In my efforts of the last few weeks, other than fixing my puter :(

I have been working on my "The Tease" and have got it all finished (woo hoo) but "forever rushing into things me" forgot to stop! and take all the separate pics along the way so here's the ones I did manage to get and The Final finished product. I will however on my blog ( beadweaver) over the next few weeks I will put up the details of each part in more detail for you :).


The Second Part is The Petersburg Chain:

The Second Picture is the two chains side by side, hmmmm your thinking well now it get interesting, heres the third part ( close up)

That is the two sewn together, ok now lets flip over and see what else I did :).

.....And now Just to put you out of your misery or confusion? here's the finished Product, just remember I will be adding all the details on my blog for you if your interested ;)

ps. sorry about the lousy pics :). Leeanne.

My "Images" YOJ Piece, Iconic Silver Fern.

Well here it is... my twist on the "images" yoj theme, I decided to use an Iconic Image we are all used to seeing.
The Silver Fern,
I did send it to the beadaholic comp but alas not a mention, never mind. I used the herringbone stitch and made all the leaves individually and then sewed them all together with graduated swaroski bicones, it all took awhile... and then attached a brooch pin at the back...phew... I still love it!!! Now this pic is the first of my "tease" on the TM board and took me about 3 1/2 hours to make last night and measures 38 inches long....
This piece of the necklace uses "the chevron chain stitch" with sz 15 hermatite, sz 11 silver lined seed beads and then a couple of silver glass pearls, a black 12mm czech & 2 pale gold czech beads.

So now onto the second part of the necklace, which I will post in a day or so. Hugs leeanne.

My Curvy Brooch Pin - Finally

Hi girls, I have finally got around to getting this picture up of my Yoj Piece, it's a brooch of course :). I had rather a mental block with that months theme.

I was thinking about Melbourne Cup Day and all the pretty flowers, hats, clothing and thought about doing this brooch. So off hunting I went... into the abyss called my store room, jeeesss forgot how dark it was in there lol. But anyhow I found a lil bit of Blue/Green ribbon, some blue organza ribbon, some felt and then went on a peruse though the bead stash, wha la! selection made and off I went.

Gathering ribbon, stitching in beads & sequins, then free forming the cuvry bits then it needed something..... hmmm....found it!!! one of Junes lovely sew on Rivoli Beads... Perfect! Done!

But its only taken me weeks!!! to get the picture done, camera battery (power charged) needed replacing grrrr.....excuses excuses but never the less all done now.

It is different and might have a go at a couple more but let me know what you think :) Just the Photos a bit iffy.....

Out of Africa Necklace

Created this and posted picture to Tm MB but Jen can't view pictures so posted here for her as well. I have used finger coral and fresh water pearls with copper accents.

Jens YOJ (Curves)

Earrings for a change! Haven't made many of late so it's a nice change. These are Curvy Tigers, being that the beads are Tiger Eye chips.

A few of the things that have been keeping me busy...

I haven't been doing all that much lately, but here are a couple of pieces that I made up....

This is 'Arwen Undomiel' as it's something I think an Elf would wear, and it was inspired by the colours of a beautiful blue and silver dress worn by Live Tyler in LOTR. Sterling silver and kyanite. This also has curlicue links further around the the necklace

Next is a Peruvian pink opal in sterling silver I made for a wedding I went to. The colours were a perfect match for the outfit. Don't you just LOVE that!? :)

Lastly a fun piece featuring a lampwork glass seahorse. I didn't have to do much but string the beads, a relaxing change from the wire wrapping. This photo doesn't quite capture it, but it gives the overall idea.

-Vera

Ear Candy I Created

Hope the picture turns out okay this time.

Hi all

This is the first time for me on here to actually post, so I thought it was about time!! Oooohhhh, my first Blog!

Amanda, I don't know how you do it chicky! That must have taken hours and hours - gorgeous!!

And Penny, those are totally cool!

I made this a little while ago, but couldn't figure out how to make the three threads, (which are tigertail) wind artfully around each other and stay there!!! So I left it as is, lol.

Lisa (Davlis) Just so you know which one!

Busy

Hi all I have been lurking and looking at the posts every once and a while and there is some beautiful skilled work going on. Inspiring.
I thought I would post some pictures of what I have been doing lately. Can anyone tell I got a new book! LOL. The first two are from the book Zulu Inspired Beadweaving Techniques, by Dianne Fitzgerald. The last picture is my own design using tubular polygon stitch.

This one is a square chain though the picture is a little out of focus.


This is a triangle chain. I have also discovered the button clasp cool as it is part of the piece and sewn on at the beginning and end.


This was an experiment with a polygon chain and a red and gold focus bead. I like how it turned out. Especially working in red not a colour I normally have any inclination to use. Funny really I find it hard to use colours that don't suit me.


Hope you enjoyed looking.

Cheers
Penny

Meet "Curvaceous" :)

Hey diva's :)

I just finished my YOJ project - "Curvaceous". I used, as a base, a lovely flat round Ruby Crazy Lace Agate bead and worked around that :)

I must say, I had real fun with this challenge, and it's certainly brought some of my old mojo back, so I think I'll continue to explore this "curvy" thing for a wee bit longer :)

Hope everyone else is enjoying it too!

Cheers,

~Amanda

Sweet Sixteen

This is a bracelet that has been made for my son's girlfriend, who are celebrating their first 6 months together awww.....

He was rather insistent on the color of beads to be used ! purples, pinks & blacks and even picked all the metal beads and the clasp as well. It has amongst the beads 6 tiny silver color hearts, one for each month awww...

I think I have raised a romantic :)

I had to make the jump rings, I made them from 20g artistic wire in 6mm rounds, he he I had to use one my lonely knitting needles, and used two together all along the length of the chain.

I quite like the effect but wondered whether I should have three?

Any way the overall finished bracelet is pleasing, I am not one for making this type of bracelet, only because I forgot how sore your finger tips get and my nails are alot shorter lol.

Enjoy Leeanne

YOJ for October - "Curves"

Hi Diva's :)

I just did the draw for this month's YOJ theme, and it's "Curves"...so go forth and create! Personally, I have no ideas yet...eek!

I've been busy with other stuff of late, but I did manage to make these gifts recently, for friends and family...

This is a bracelet I made for my friend Lisa, who's a huge "Supernatural" fan. It uses brass charms that have links to the TV programme "Supernatural":

This necklace was made for Lisa's teenage daughter, who's going through abit of a rough time at the moment (to cheer her up):

And this necklace was made for my cousin, who has very simple and contemporary taste. I used an oval wooden flat bead with hammered wire accents:

Hope everyone's keeping well and managing at least a wee bit of beading time...it'll soon be summer (bring it on, I say!), and hopefully my mojo will have returned :)

~Amanda

Where have all the beadies gone.....?

long time passing. I like that song. It's been a bit cold on it just lately, typical spring time weather. Got a couple of orders which is rather lovely. And the pic above is another beaded button I've recently finished. And why is it that the pic doesn't come out when I'm posting, it's just all gobbledy gook, so I can't move the s*****g thing around like I can on my blog page. Weird!
Oh well if anyone is viewing any time soon........
Jen.

Good morning divas......

Another lovely rainy day (always seems to be raining when I blog).



Hmmm interesting! Have just taken pics of my September YOJ (Images). The image is a wee wee little pic of 'baby me' art gelled onto a button and embellished around with seed beads into a netted pattern. I've also added a couple of baby bell flower beads at the base of the beaded bail. I've put it on a ribbon for the time being, might change that at a later date, and the clasp is one of my favourites, a 'copper' flower toggle clasp. Ok, time to get out of the jim jams and start the day! Have a great day. Jen.

Hi Everyone. June has told me so much about you all and the very clever things you do. I see the things she gets sent for the bead swap and marvel at what you all make out of what you get given. I make some bridal jewellery and the odd fashion range jewellery too, which I love doing. Have just made a bunch of stuff for the ANZFW Basquesse show which was a lot of fun and I got to raid June's stash of course. Keep up the great work and I look forward to following the blogs from now on, I think you are all very clever.

YOJ: Images

Hey guys,

Miss8 is home sick today, so just grabbing a few moments to try and catch up on some stuff while I can :)

Here's my YOJ for September - the image is glued to a glass dome and then peyoted around. The "strap" is also peyoted, trapping Swarovski pearls. The purple teardrops are Cubic Zirconia's.

I love the Victorian look of this :) Hope everyone is going well with their YOJ's too - can't wait to see them!

Catch up soon!

Amanda :)

Bead Swap Pendant

Hi Ladies,

I am so sorry for the delay, our house is chaos at the moment! Jen sent me an email to remind me, and I just had to make some time to finish it this morning. Thanks Jen!

As the focal already has a pattern, I wanted something really simple so it wouldn't be 'too much'. I don't usually do symmetrical designs, especially geometric looking ones, so this was something outside the square for me. This used jeweller's bronze wire and an onyx bead and is teamed with a stainless steel cable.

Sorry, I thought I had a before photo! Don't be surprised if I re-do this one at some stage if it doesn't grow on me

Vera

Leeanne's New/Old website news

I have just acquired the "Beadweaver" website from lynne, so over the next few weeks I will be uploading my new and older beadwoven jewellery.
Hopefully I will be putting together a tips and techniques page as well as some other interesting bits and bobs that refer to beadweaving etc. But no changes have been made just yet!!!, I will be busy taking lots of pic's etc and editing information to put up for everyones use.
I will be keeping my other site "Donniere's Design Boutique" and will be showcasing other peoples work for sale as well as my own.
So if you are interested in showing off your wares etc for sale, "at no cost" and or have any info that you think is of interest to others in our beading community let me know via my email etc.
A rather exciting adventure ahead for all and I am very grateful to Lynne for her assistance etc etc and would just like to say a big "THANK YOU".

Bead Swap results!

Sorry we've had abit of a delay with this :) There's still one more entry to come in, but I'm hoping that Vera can post it herself, when she's finished it, so that we can all enjoy the results without any further ado :D

Thanks to everyone who participated - some great pieces here, hope you all had fun creating them!

~Amanda :)