The beadmavens is a wonderful group of talented beaders, who share their knowledge, ideas and creativity with the rest of us beaders. on fridays they sometimes publish a free tutorial, courtesy of one of the group's members. back in march, nedbeads offered a free tutorial of her beautiful trellis necklace for just one day to people who would leave

Last week i decided to make marcia de coster's bracelet cappadocia from her wonderful book "beaded opulence". the only 3 mm filepolished beads i had enough of (706 units!) was a pale transparent green. i had about a third of the amount with an ab finish and two thirds without. i decided that should do, and started rawing away. when i got quite far

Once again i participated in coco's friendly challenge of creating a piece of beaded lace jewelery after a motif proposed by the talented colette l'hopitale-navarre. here is my necklace: check out all the other wonderful creations made for this challenge.

My dear friend coco from labijoutisse is a very talented beader who has managed to create her own distinctive personal style of beaded lace. a while ago coco invited the visiters of her blog to join her in a friendly challenge to create a necklace by using a small lacy motif she designed. i was very happy for the opportunity to try this style and w

I'm on a roll! i spent the weekend bringing some pieces to their happy completion. i have to confess. have this annoying tendency to start numerous projects simultaneously and not finish most of them. some i leave somewhere along the line because i don't like the outcome; in other cases a broken bead or the end of a thread is enough to make me put

There are so many beading challenges going on all over the beadingsphere! once in a while i feel like joining. this was the case with margie deeb's turquoise color challenge on the art bead scene blog. i have to admit that the palette did not immediately appeal to me , it sort of grew on me as i progressed. only that i failed to notice one little d

This weekend i am participating for the first time at an artfair. shabbat omanim - artists weekend, has been held in kiryat tivon, where my mother lives, on on the weekend before passover for the past 15 years or so. kiryat tivon is a beautiful, pittoresque town and at this time of the year there are wild flowers all over the place and in the garde

How do i start a new post after almost half a year of absence from this blog? am i supposted to apologize or something? probably. but i don't think i will. here are some new pieces that i felt like showing to the world: i love the simplicity and cleanliness of these three starfish. incas by le gioie di happyland from http://happylandblog.blogspot.c

It has been over a year since i last blogged. i must be the worst blogger on the entire internet. but i haven't been completely idle during this year. i have accomplished quite a bit of beading and i have the jewelery to proove it. i decided not to bombard the blog all at once with the pictures of everything i have done in the past year. instead i

My mom brough back with her from her visit to the states two fabulous new beading books for me. "beaded opulence" by marcia decoster and "bead fusion" by rachel nelson- smith. i just couldn't put them down. i loved everything about those two books: the projects, the photography, the quality of production, the paper - wow! i couldn't make up my mind