Well finally the book has arrived and it is fantastic!!

I dont know if I ever told you how I got started... Well here it is

I was living in the middle of absolutly nowhere. I started to go a bit bonkers since I moved there from a semisized city. So I found beads.
I began looming with chinese 8/0 and that was not a good experience... well, pretty patterns but they got even prettier when I found Ornela.
I was only using czech seed beads and soon I realized that I could do so much more with the beads.

I will see if I can find an old pic of what I was doing (by this time I moved to a small town not far from the teeny tiny village I had lived in)

This bracelet was made with preciosa firepolished and czeck seed beads :) I loved it and so did many others :)

So what do I do today with them? Uhm.. just about everything? :) (digging for pic)

This is a little something I made. It is called Ostara :) I LOVE PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads

I cannot belive it!

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I am in a book that will be released in august! 3 pictures and I am in great company of my mentors, inspirations and fabulous beaders from around the world!

Right now you can buy the book at a pre- release price, it will go up when the book is released so book your copy today!

EBEG bead fest 2... Filigree!

This is just a sample of ideas for the bead fest. The piece has to be done by 31/3 so it is plenty of time but knowing me I will be sitting day and night in the end of march and work as a banshee...

2012 New year, new beginnings

This morning I got approved by Etsy beadembroidery Guild! That is just as huge as Etsy beadweaving team. And since I got my 6 pack of stiff stuff and several sheets of ultra suede to go with the asymetrical and the wavy cuff I have som embroidering in my future,
It is light outside today so hopefully I will be able to get better pictures soon :)

So... what should I start with? Readers choice

Should it be a neckpiece, bracelet or cuff? Hit me!

Preciosa, my precious

Yesterday a note from the post office came though my mailbox, I knew it was one of two things, a stone to open my throatchakra OR the samples from Preciosa Ornela that I will be working with and try out. I was under the weather so I thought that it could wait till today and so it did.
It was a box, so way to big to be the stone so it had to be the samples. I ran from the store to my sister who lives the closest and opened it up... And all the goodies came out, one by one...

You see, goodies to play and find out how to work them. It is a 5 mm long bead with 2 holes. Fantastic colors and I cannot wait to try them out!
I was ment to make stitch sample cards for my class today but there is always until classes start tomorrow :D

RAW on pause and another project is being born

I asked myself if it was possible to change the color on the rosecab since a person only need so many black and white rosecabs so I gave it a shot. With only pencils and diamond glaze it looked like watercolors, so I got a bit creative and used tempera mixed with the diamond glaze and this is the results, the lighter is only tempera and diamond glaze and the darker ones is painted with pencils first.

And here is a new project, you will be able to follow it to the Etsy shop and see me make changes, both good and bad once. It is barely visable but on the felt I have drawn paisleypatterns. Thoose are one of the changes I will make, or in this case totally ignore.
You will get an update as soon as I made the pendant as I want it :)

Things I should have been able to figure out myself

Ok, this is why I hate my brain. If I did not struggle to keep RAW out of my head as much as possible I would have figured out this idea myself a long time ago, not getting it from the fabulous magazine Bead n´Button. The idea is so simple, but who came up with RAW with size 15/0 beads?

So this is this necklaces journey, if it survives another cat attack...

And the cab... I will sacrifice one to find out if I can dye them, I do not need this many black and whites. I will keep you posted :)

XOXO//Veronica