gallery archive 08

[clasicat]

Ok gonna be brave and show some of my beads :-[These are the only ones that survived from my play yesterday.  All the others cracked

[Lush!]

Yay!  My first solo hollow bead (well, the first one that's good enough to take a pic of!)

Its not completely hollow, the ends a bit thick, but I love it   


And .... I just found it that I can use it as a whistle!   

[Amber]

Do we ask how you found out you could whistle through it...? 

My beads - plus cat hair!

[Ilona]

I haven't posted any pics for a while, so here are a couple I made yesterday.






Ilona

[ebj]

Mindy - beautiful beads as ever - I'm in awe of your stinger work & just love the stripes . Lovely set Lesley - and love the bead with the pmc bead caps. Still havent got round to giving that a go! Great hollow Julie - I had a go at that once - total disaster. I'm very jealous lol! A beautiful set there Amber - and Iiona - WOW! Stunning!  Really love the silver core Sam - and the  top beads a stunner Hope thats everyone

Here are some from me - think I must be liking making these. All are CIM and fine silver wire & Electra apart from the set thats trans colbat Blue. Photo bucket seems to give either enormous photos or tiny photos, didnt want to be a silly hog so one pig pic- click on the rest if you would like to see a bigger pic!        

   








I dont think I can part with the top set!

Emma x

[turnedlight]

I just want to say a great big THANK YOU! to Sandy for selling me her Nortel Minor! I finally have it all set up, and these are the results of my first day.. 'scuse the pointy ends, this was a little trickier to control..

It is soo much hotter, and so quiet! I will have to do a bit more orientation but I think we will get along just fine! (Also, a piccy of it in it's new home)


 

 

 

 

[julieHB]

D/t other commitments and being quite busy with commissions lately (not beads) I haven't played as much as I'd like, but yesterday I had a good session.  I'm rather unstructured, just do what takes my fancy, practising basic shapes, colour reactions etc.  At times it can still take me quite a long time even to make a round bead 

I almost always have a go at a floral bead, and yesterday I managed to make one without smudging the flowers. I know there is still a long way to perfection, but I am very chuffed with it (on the left)  :


And as always I had to make a few critters as well...this little pingu looks like he needs to go:


Lastly, I found a turtle tut on youtube, and was so pleased when I managed to finish this little fella before he cracked on me:


So, not great art from me today, but I certainly enjoyed myself!!  I'm sorry about the window reflections in the pictures, I really must get one of those photo-tents.  Have a lovely bank holiday, everybody!! 

[Donna@Rockin' Beads]

What lovely beads everyone.
I bought the Therese Laliberte Goddess tutorial and am so pleased with my first attempt that I felt brave enough to post in here for a change. What a great tutorial.
She is my dad's Father's Day present  





The top bead isn't really meant to be her head but seems to work quite well  

[Donna@Rockin' Beads]

Cute Penguin  
I've been practising pleats - with a very small amount of success  


And I am addicted to dots and wavy lines following Laura Sparling's dmo at the Flame Off

Oh, and I finally felt brave enough to try the dichroic strips I bought at the Flame Off  

Phew.... bit of a hog, sorry  

[Fluffs]

here's me turtles.........  



and a couple of others too  




Those pleats are fab Donna, and I love the wavy dotty ones too.

[Kaz]

Oh, I guess I am first this week. Here are the products of my illicit bead making sessions!
Kaz
Lavender and brown - dotties and spotties

Dirty martini and chagall silver blue - more dotties and spotties

Detail of some lentils I am quite pleased with (better ends than before) - steel grey, white and Nyx

A lentil pair I was dead chuffed with

A pile of lentil pairs to make some earrings

[LesleyMac]

I have been playing with Nyx and Phyche (which Julie kindly gave me).  Lovely stuff, got to get more.

[Josephine]

I really like the first set Kaz. Miriam those are really pretty. Lesley those are all lovely, the top one is my favourite.

I've been doing some hearts again recently.

[turnedlight]

Aww! it's cute!
I've allowed myself to use a bit of my Terra, just to see..

 

And more blue squares.. finding it harder to get the high metallic sheen on my new torch, it's getting there though..

 

[LesleyMac]

Well I decided to go for it and try a kneeling goddess.  She has several things I consider "wrong" however on the whole I am fairly proud that I managed this.  I am going to do another one at the weekend as I am determined to make the "perfect" one.  All this said when I think back two years ago I would have had no chance of doing something like this, so practice obviously makes all the difference.