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Why Not: Support An Artisan Lampworker

Lampwork beads are made by hand 

by a skilled artisan

melting rods of glass in a flame. 

Tricky work when you think about it!

Especially when you look at how detailed

 and beautiful the beads can be.

Lampwork mouse by Izzy Beads 

It is a craft that requires great skill and attention. 

The results can be phenomenal! 

Blissful Garden Beads (also in top pic ) 

The beads can be more expensive than your average 

mass made glass BUT you are buying real art work, 

something that has

been made with love, care and attention. 

Supporting an artist and allowing that craft to carry on 

through time. 

All that AND you get some wonderful beads to work with. 

What's not to love?! 

La Fleur Bracelet By Sabine Lippert - Completed!

Nine hours and twenty five minutes, 

four bent needles and three stabbed fingers later 

and here we are - La Fleur Bracelet pattern completed! 

It was the most time consuming project I've worked on so far, 

but I loved every single minute of it. 

(Tell that to the pricked fingers..!) 

Seriously, I was wondering whether somebody of novice beading 

level would be able to make anything out of Sabine's 

beautiful book' Beaded Fantasies'. It all looked so complex. 

I needn't have worried though, the instructions are really good and 

at no point does it say ' now do twenty million rounds of some stitch 

you have never heard of and we haven't explained...'.

Quite the contrary.

 Sabine's instructions are very user friendly. 

 I loved her original colour way of minty milky green and bronze 

but I wanted to personalise the bracelet and choose my own colour scheme.

I can't believe I have managed to bead something like this, 

looking through the book I did think it was all so pretty but 

there was no way I'd ever be able to make anything like that.

I have been beading it a little bit at a time,

 when I could, over the weeks

and now it's finished I am quite missing working on it.

All in all a very enjoyable project and 

I'm super pleased with how it turned out.

Tree Wings Studio Competition

Tree Wings Studio is offering you the chance to win 

one of these sleepy critter beads. 

Aren't they adorable?! 

To enter simply go over to her blog and guess how many 

cute critters she is holding. 

Be quick because the draw takes place tomorrow! 

Visit Tree Wings Studio HERE

Spoilt Rotten Beads Discount And Free Project

Spoilt Rotten Beads are offering 

20% off all Fire polish beads until midnight 

Thursday 15th August 2013. 

(Discount automatically deducted at the online checkout.) 

Learn how to make the gorgeous bracelet above:  

Click HERE for the free instructions.

Bead Hoarders Blog Hop Reveal

Hello there! 

Welcome to my corner of the Bead Hoarders Blog Hop. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

I love the premise of this hop - to use the beads that you have been 

stashing away. 

So I've used it as an opportunity to use up the bags of freebie beads 

that I've been accumulating over the years. 

You know, the nice little complementary bags that lovely companies sometimes

send out to thank you for your custom. 

Because I didn't chose them I haven't really had a project in mind for them, 

so I am pleased to be able to finally get them out and use them up! 

I've tried to keep my designs to mainly using the freebies without too many 

'extras' from the rest of my stash so here we go: 

First piece:  

I started with the bumpy pink with black and white dots focal bead

and took the design from there.

The neon pink cracked bubble beads made me think

of the neon signs in Japan so I went for a stylised slightly kawaii 

 kitschy pink black and white look.

Do you find yourself thinking up names for your jewellery as 

you are making it? 

I do, and the name I had in mind for this one was

Geisha Rose.

I know it doesn't look especially Geisha like
but that is the name that sprang to mind so I'm going with it!  

  

Second Piece: 

If the first design was coming from Japan, this piece is straight out

of an English country garden! 

I stitched tiny delicate pink 'leaves' coming off the main 

necklace to complement the green leaf focal from the Jilly Beads 

mix.  

I was so pleased to use up  the lovely gold plated flower clasp 

which I've had in my stash for

ages... 

Third Piece: 

I was looking at these two spotty beads for a while thinking 

how I could use them both in a design, when I only had the two 

and they were different shapes.

When it struck me that one on top of the other they made a rather fetching 

toadstool... 

- Yes, I can't believe I made a toadstool either! 

Moving swiftly onto piece four: 

The Jilly Beads soup mix combined perfectly with the 

faux amethyst chips freebie from Little Crafty Beaders 

to make this butterfly bracelet. 

And finally we have piece number five, 

my personal favourite, a simple pendant and earrings 

set.   

So there's my freebie makes.  

It's quite satisfying to 

take a look at them and think how they were just 

a pile of stashed beads before this blog hop.

Even better to think that I now have seven items of  jewellery  

to wear that were, in the most part, free! 

Thank you to Lori Anderson  for hosting this event 

and giving me the impetus to make use of these 

overlooked lovelies! 

Participants list : 

YOU ARE HERE: 145.  Lizzie Clarke, The Need to Bead
146.  Christina Miles, Wings 'n' Scales
147.  Patricia, The Color of Dreams
148.  Marde Lowe, Fancimar
149.  Ev Shelby, Raindrop Creations
150.  Sarah Small, By Salla


151.  Perri Jackson, Shaktipaj Designs
152.  Laurie Vyselaar, Lefthand Jewelry
153.  Pam Traub, Klassy Joolz
154.  Lisa Harrison, Daisy Meadow Studio
155.  Anzia Parks, Anzi-Panzi's Work Shoppe
156.  Ingrid, Lilisgems Handcrafted Jewelry Inspirations
157.  Andra Weber, Andra's Joyful Journey
158.  Kelly Hosford Patterson, The Traveling Side Show
159.  Adlinah Kamsir, Dreamstruck Designs
160.  Marci, That Nothing Be Wasted


161.  Kris Lanae Binsfield,  Cherish Designs
162.  Stephanie Perry, Mustard Bead
163.  Birgit Klughardt, Gites Beads
164.  Inge von Roos, Inge's Blog
165.  Rebecca Sirevaag, Becca's Place
166.  Sandy Markley, Gypsy Spirit Designs
167.  Elena Adams, Lena's Beady Blog

(For the full list click HERE)

My Beading Diary - Working On Sabine Lippert's La Fleur Bracelet