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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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