lørdag 27. august 2011

Shadow box challenge reveal!

In July Lorelei came up with an exciting challenge. We were supposed to make something out of 23 beautiful shadowboxes from C Koop Beads(I hope it's ok i borrowed your picture Lorelei):


I got that nice, orange one, and to day is the day. I just can't wait to se what you other creative people have made :)

I must admit, I had a hard time trying to figure out what beads to combine this beautiful, orange box with. I was placing it next to lots and lots of different beads and I draw a couple of little pictures to put in the box, thinking it was time to try out some resin.
I was kind of twisting my brain, but suddenly, it was coffetime! Caramba! ;)


I did try out the resin, but with coffebeans in it. The rest of the coffebeads in the necklace is glassbeads that look like coffeebeans, not real beads like in the pendant. I also got to try out some recycling. Some of the copper used to be a plate beneath a fire place.

And then it's time to check out all the other beautiful creations. Enjoy!

11. Grubbi


tirsdag 16. august 2011

Et par par nye øredobber - A couple of new pairs of earrings

[NOR] Så har det blitt ... surprise, surprise litt flere kobberøredobber. Hehe! Ja, jeg veit. Jeg lager kobberøredobber og kobberøredobber og kobberøredobber ...
  
[ENG] Surprise.. surprise ... copper earrings! ... again. Ok, I know. I'm making copper earrings and copper earrings and copper earrings.


[NOR] Vel.. her er de i hvert fall:

[ENG] Oh well.. here they are:

[NOR] Et par "jordnære" dobber med lavastein og litt glassperlepynt.

[ENG] A couple of down to earth earrings with lava stone and to small glassbeads.




[NOR] Så akkurat det motsatte: bling-bling-bling! Tjekkiske, fasetterte glassperler.

[ENG] And then for something completely different: bling-bling-bling! Made of Czech glassbeads.


torsdag 11. august 2011

Grille-grille-grille .. perler - Bead bbq

Det er alltid like gøy å plukke ut av keramikkovnen, selv om det bare er en råbrann ...
Det å plukke små biter forventningsfullt ut og titte på og se for seg hvordan det blir om man plukker den og den glasuren ned fra hylla og klasker den på ...

Jeg er i glaseringsmodus om dagen, men det kommer også til å ramle ut noen nye smykker i dagene som kommer i og med at jeg har dilla og snurra litt perler innimellom.


Sånn ser de ut når de kommer ut av ovnen for første gang:



... de blir litt mer fargerike og spennende etter glasering.