Night and Day Earring Reveal 3

I have more beautiful eye candy to share with you from our Earring Swap today!

Lesley sent these 2 beautiful wirework designs to Gill,




Dee sent these beadwoven beauties to Christine, the long pair are from an original Design by Deborah Roberti



I was lucky enough to receive these beautiful earrings from Donna, my two favourite colours!




Thank you to everyone who is participating in the swap, we are all having fun!

Happy beading,

Sarahx

Stash Busting Beadalong Progress 1.

Gosh that week has gone so quickly! I hope you have all been enjoying the earring reveals, I know I have, such gorgeous work and more to come!

I am happy to have some great progress to report and also a new goal from Gloria! Check out the pictures below.

Gloria is joining this week and this what she has to say about her goal - I was lucky enough to get a place on a Laura McCabe workshop held in Scotland during September. The workshop that I attended was for Laura's Treasure Necklace. This is a really special necklace made up of 9 beaded lockets - each of which open up to reveal a small box. Techniques include herringbone and peyote stitch with embellishment. I didn't get much done during the workshop - I was enjoying the company too much!! The OTTBS progress blog has given me all the inspiration I need to actually finish this piece - thanks!


Catherine - Here is the first week's progress on Laura McCabe's Stargazer bracelet. I have a full time job and a son of 13 so bead time can be a bit sporadic. I'll often go for a 'quick fix project' so I have a finished item fairly quickly, but component based projects like these are also good! Where I usually stall is in the 'joining up and finishing', so I may need more encouragement there!


Sarah - I furiously beaded last weekend while watching Strictly Come Dancing and X Factor and was surprised by how much progress I made. I have completed most of the focal, this weekend I will make the Pagoda embellishments and the focal will be complete. I have made a few adjustments to the colour way as I go along, but I am pretty happy with it so far.


Jo - Not much beading time but stage 1 is complete! 4 sparkly bezelled rivolis. The next step is to bezel the points which is something new for me so will try and get that done this week!


Check back with us next week!

Happy beading,

Sarahx

Pattern Finds - Parisian Beadwoven Earrings

Well since we are in the middle of our earring swap, I have them on my mind at the moment! These Parisian Beadwoven Earrings from Peyote Bead Art on Etsy are just so gorgeous, I knew I had to share them here, and of course they would make perfect stocking fillers! As always, click on the picture to be taken directly to the listing.



Happy beading!

Sarahx

Night and Day Earring Reveal 2

I have a bumper crop of earrings to share with you today! No less than 6 beautiful pairs of earrings.

Rebecca made this beautiful pair of Day earrings for Carol from a pattern by Diane Fitzgerald


These gorgeous Night earrings, deigned by Ellad2 were also from Rebecca to Carol.


Gill made these stunning Rivoli Day earrings for Lesley.


Gill also made these gloriously bling Night earrings,


Jo made these gorgeous Pheasible Knot Day Earrings for Faye.


and also these stunning cubic raw Night earrings.


I am so impressed with the individuality and talent shown in all these earrings, I hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I do!

Happy beading,

Sarahx

October Moodboard - Weekly Update 2

Welcome to another weekly update, we have some more fab submissions for the October moodboard to share with you today!

Gill Hardbattle made a gorgeous necklace using Hatsumi Oshitani's pattern from the Oct/Nov 2011 issues Beadwork...



Cathy Cohen made a beautiful bracelet...



Lesley created a wonderful patchwork effect cuff...



Lynsey Brooks made a beautiful ring from polymer clay...



Kitty Ballistic made a gorgeous necklace...



And Kimmy made a beautiful necklace with ribbon and seed beads...


Thanks to everyone who has joined in with us so far, it's great to see so many of you having fun with this colour scheme!

If you'd like to play along with us this month and be in with a chance to win a gorgeous collection of beads from Yashma Creations then please see the original post for details.

Day & Night Earring Reveal 1!

I am excited to share our 1st earring swap reveal with you! Carol was very quick off the ball with these beautiful earrings that she has made for Rebecca. I am a big fan of the spinning top beaded beads by Bead Infinitum and the heart earrings are so elegant for the evening!

Day


Night


Happy beading!

Sarahx

Stash Busting Beadalong!

This week I have been flicking through my copy of Laura McCabe's fabulous book Embellished Beadweaving and deciding that it really is time for me to actually make something from it. I decided and I would try the April Showers Necklace using stash beads and that I would set myself a goal of finishing it by Christmas. I mentioned this on our Facebook group and luckily a couple of our members have decided to join me and have set goals too, we will post our progress on a weekly basis, hopefully this will keep us motivated!

Here is a photo of the April Showers Necklace and the beads that I have chosen, I don't have a huge selection of size 15's, as I really don't like using them so I am using 4 colours of those instead of 5 and I am using drops instead of magatema's. The colour combo isn't one I would generally choose but I do think it will be very rich and a great Christmas necklace.



Jo is making this lovely Orb Kit and says "I actually have 2 of these gorgeous orb kits as I requested a different colourway from the usual goldstone and the lovely Laura McCabe kindly gave me several to choose from. The custom cut points in the kit are Norweigan Moonstone and they have iridescent flashes in them similar to labradorite. They have been matched perfectly with the monotone palate of beads that Laura has chosen to compliment them. I've only had this kit for around a month but it was already languishing in my bead box which is hidden away in the understairs cupboard. Hopefully by agreeing to keep Sarah company on this Christmas project my lovely necklace may even get worn this year!"



Catherine says "Here's a picture of the Laura McCabe bracelet kit I want to complete
for my Mum by Christmas, it's the class I did in September called Star Gazer. I haven't even opened the packets yet, as in the class I was working on a different version for myself. I know I CAN complete this, but need a little encouragement to keep me going to completion. The colours in this are Mum's favourites so I hope she will like it although she rarely wears jewellery that isn't rings or earrings. It should be really sparkly. I am going to be sneaky when I see her next to get a wrist measurement"



This beadalong has turned into a bit of a Laura McCabe-along! I can't wait to see the progress that we make. Thank you so much to Catherine & Jo for joining in!

Happy beading!

Sarahx