Dream!

“The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Day Four

Dimensions in doll making 2008

Dimensions in Dollmaking for 2008 will have the theme “Flights of Fantasy.”

To see previous Dimensions check out the Gallery

Promise to participate form/ due August 1st, 2008

http://www.iolcc.com/

Review of Etsy

I heard of Etsy on You tube… then I got a good feed back from the Bead Art forum on them. I decided to open my own Etsy store! So far I like it, the upload was easy and the price is good. Here is my Etsy store:

http://lidijafairbanks.etsy.com

Also check out this review on the Etsy by Shirley Graves:

http://www.home-jewelry-business-success-tips.com/etsy.html

Day Three

Day One

I beaded around the ceramic bezel cab…

This is a must know technique for free form jewelry, it really adds a whole new dimension to your work. It’s very exciting knowing that you can take any object with one flat side and “capture it” this way in your beadwork. The possibilities are limitless! If you still don’t know how to do this I suggest you check out tutorials on the web or take a class. I personally learn better trough the classless but I found this free beaded bezel tutorial on the net so check it out:

http://beadwork.joust.net/BeadedBezelCabochon.html

Bead tray with selected beads…

Fired and glazed ceramic beads

I will pick few of these ceramic beads/Pendants for my necklace project…

Starting a new project/Organic Freeform Necklace

Hello!

finally I started working on my new beaded project… This time I will make Organic Freeform Necklace. I will be updating my blog with the progress of the necklace daily.

This necklace will have organic fill, I created ceramic beads/pendants especially for this project, they have kind of ocean organic look. They are glazed with Cream paprika glaze and aged with Bronze Opaque Gloss glaze… Special touches are added to some of the beads with European gold overgraze.

I hope you will have fun watching this project, please do ask questions if you want anything explained  in more detail as we go.

Well, lets see where this project takes us!

Pencil sketch of organic form beads…