A QUIET WEEK...

A very quiet working week from me this week ~ I got some cabochons cut and fired, a pendant finished and wired up, but not a great deal more in the way of glass work.
It was just one of "those" weeks as far as work was concerned!  The absolutely hideous weather didn't help much either I might add.

As you may know I've been playing with beads of a night after dinner and trying to teach myself a few new things.
This bracelet got finished last night while I was sort of watching the footy.
I struggled big time with the weave that makes up the base of this and then, with a lot of help from some Facebook friends and a lot of ripping out and swearing ~ all of a sudden it just clicked.  I was one happy little vegemite!!!
175 Swarovski crystals later and some very tiny seed beads it was done. 

 

Seems like I was on a bit of a purple streak ~ these are a group of cabs for an order.  A very unusual colour combination in the glass but I love it!!

 

And lastly a wreath pendant (also an order) wired up with 14kt rose gold filled wire. It's such a pretty colour, I think much nicer than yellow gold.

 I did have some absolutely fantastic news though ~ I entered a blog competition by Karen from Skunk Hill Studio.  The first prize was this brilliant book she has written on freeform beading and a kit to make one of her awesome bracelets.  YAY!!! Doing the happy dance ~ yes I won it and my kit is on it's way across the big pond as we speak.  More fun to be had!!!!   :^)  :^)

OK ~ back to making dinner for me ~ have a fantabulous week everyone!!!! CYA.......

THE WEEK THAT WAS...

 A few new engraved pendants from me this last week, quite a few cabs that were posted to my silvermoonlyn page on Facebook and more of my learning beading bits.
I'm currently working on photos so I can get some more pieces added to my Artfire store too.

 Some of my latest cabs ~ you don't need to be a Facebook member to see these.  Just click the picture and it will whisk you away to where the pictures live  :^)

 And experimenting with pretty tiny dichroic glass seed beads.  The tubular beading is 30mm long but only 6mm across and the beaded bead is 8mm hole to hole and 13mm wide.
These could be destined to become supporting parts of a piece I'm thinking about entering in a competition later this year ~ maybe......

 

Hope everyone is having a great week and not too cold or too hot ~ I don't know what happened to Queensland's  "Beautiful one day, Perfect the next" weather ~ I'm freezing my backside off here!!!  Hoo Roo.......

A FIRST TIME...

For trying something new.

Ta Da,  I give you my lairy rainbow!!

They're monster beads (size 6's) and there's one mistake in the thread path, but overall I'm pretty stoked with my Sunday afternoon effort :^)
This is the first time I've ever seriously tried working with beads like this and actually accomplished something.
I won't be making it my focus in my creative life, it was just one of those "have to try" things.  I have a few other things I really want to try and get the hang of too ~ we'll see....lol.

OK ~ off to cut some glass for me ~ have a great week all!!!

MIA ~ YET AGAIN...

Yes I know hopeless!! lol. I seriously don't know where the time disappears to these days!!  I'm thinking it would be nice to be a little kid again when it seemed like at least 2 years between each Christmas and everything just seemed to go a lot slower than it does now.  It seems to me you blink and it's 3 days later..*sigh*

I've not been well again, so that's my excuse ~ it'll have to do.  Stupid neuralgia, then I snapped one of my veneers on a tooth so that was a trip to the dentist and much pain ~ purse and mouth!!  And then lo and behold the neuralgia comes back. gggrrrrrrrr.  It really does make for not feeling like doing too much. So I'm sending it out to the ether ~ please may I have a good run with no dramas and everything going along beautifully????  The rest of the year would be nice  :^)

I was also waiting on new glass to arrive and that kind of threw a spanner in the works for a bit.

Soooooooo while I waiting I decided to have a bit of a play with just plain black art glass and 22kt gold decals.  Some of the resulting pieces are a bit further down in this post. I quite like them ~ even with no dichro anywhere in sight.  If you click on the first of those pictures it will take you to the album on Facebook.  There you will find a few other pictures as well as the dimensions and prices.   I made a few new engraved pendants and got some more listings up on Artfire too.

 

Two of the twelve new listings on Artfire. I really love these heart shaped wreaths  :^)

   

Not too sure why some of these pictures look fuzzy ~ these are some of my black and 22kt gold pieces.

 

And lastly a couple of engraved cabs that are just waiting for bails.

 

That's it from me for now ~ have a great weekend all!!

SOME NEW PENDANTS...

Ten new pendants from me this week and all but the last one have been engraved.
I do have quite a few more pieced together and waiting patiently for me to get to them, but unfortunately due to me being pretty sick this week they are still waiting! lol.
There were a heap of new cabs done as well ~ they are over on my Facebook page if you'd like to check them out.
If you would like any info on sizes and prices of these, please send me an email and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.

Now I'm hopefully going to spend the rest of the day getting some new listings up in my Artfire studio.  I added some new pieces the other day too if you'd like to drop by and check them out :^)

ORDERS & OTHERS...

 OK ~ totally my fault for not checking in and posting for so long, but they're changed it on me again!!  It took me nearly half an hour just to find where to write!! Hopeless!!  Now I'll have to see if posting pictures works the same way it did......**No it doesn't!! I just lost everything twice over!!  grrrrrrrrrrrr.......

I have finally managed to get some new pendants together.  They've been sitting, waiting to be finished while I've been off with the pixies.  I have been busy doing stuff though ;)

The first six of these pictures are orders and then the others are stock that will possibly go to Artfire.

If you see something that catches your eye, just shoot me off a message and I can give you the info as to whether it's available or not.