Competitions and the art of learning

I am working on 2, for now, competition entries. I can only give sneek peaks as of yet but you will see them completed in november :D Yes I know it is a while left and perhaps I can put them up earlier :) I´ll try.

First off is a agate slice, given to my by my good friend Annette.

Nice coloring on it right :) Well that one is now on the " Oh my god what am I going to do" bead board and it left room for another piece to start showing it´s face

I am just able to show you this, a beautiful labratorite bezeled with my favorite color, copperlined black diamond ab from Presiosa Ornela.








Back to the beads and hopefully I can give you more of a look later :)

I am hard at work for some competition entries that I have in my head :D I can only be grateful that one of my favorite suppliers are Preciosa Ornela. They are amazing and I got some goodies today so I want to incorporate in the designs. 
I even think of making a little tutorial or two... :) then it is great to have someone that supplies PRECIOSA seed beads and beads to the entire world.
Should it be with twins or peanuts? Gah the choises :D
Oh by the way, did you know that you could win 1000 grams of Preciosa Ornela beads? Ok ok I will give you the link just because you think I am joking :) Here it is
See, I am not joking! Not about something so serious as beads!
Well back to the foxhole and try to at least finish one feather today :D

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!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1454703164/ref=s9_simh_bw_p14_d27_g14_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=0W3PX3TZYS3AFASQ6MGW&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1337756322&pf_rd_i=48

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