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Miri Agassi

Free pattern with Kheops par Puca beads by Smadar's treasure

Free pattern by Smadar's Treasure

A  beautiful Desert Sun beaded component that is made with Kheops beads, Japanese seed beads and Swarovski crystal Rivoli stone.

It can be used as a pendant, as a ring and even as earrings. 

Thank you Smadar for your generosity. 

You can find this pattern HERE

Design, spaces and hoops

Staci L. Smith wrote in her blog "Love my art jewelry", a great post about design, hoops and negative space. 

A piece of art made by Staci L. Smith

I love art that uses large spaces, I find it fascinating. Lately I started to use little spaces in my work too. 

A bracelet designed by Miri Agassi

I am planning now a new jewlry that will have lot of spaces, It will be mostly spaces. 

My recommendation, A very interesting post for jewelry designers:

A very interesting post about boot-camp-hoops-and-negative-space by Staci L. Smith

WE HAVE A WINNER!!

(Thank you Free Fhotos for this lovely photo :D)

I am happy to announce our Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets's winner.

Our winner is Lies Koster    

Dear Lies Koster, My congratulations! 
Please contact my mail miriagassi@gmail.com. I need your email adress. 

You will be contacted by Vivienne Wells by email. 

The ebook will be sent to you soon.

Thanks to everyone who entered the post and those who left comments to enter the giveaway.

Thanks to Vivienne Wells for donating the prize. 

Keep tuned!! 

Miri

Free beading project with spike beads, and a giveaway

If you can get spike beads it looks beautiful when used in your beading. I found this Beads & Button's free project Spikes in bloom by Kerrie Slade. It includes ladder stich, brick stich and embellishment.  

Also, you still have a chance to win bead flowers eBook by Katie Dean for free.

Just klick HERE and leave a comment. :)

eBook - Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets - giveaway

This  post is about a journey of French beading and a givaway.

I was asked by Vivienne Wells to review the eBook  "Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets" by Katie Dean.

I am honored and glad to give a review because I love this aesthetic and challenging eBook.

This book's aim, as written in the introduction of the book, is to give an understanding of how to use French beading techniques, make flowers and construct a bouquet.

"Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets" has everything a beginner as well as an advanced beader needs.

It has step by step explanations about French Beading, detailed and easy to follow written instructions and videos.

I watched the videos that show Katie Dean demonstrating and explaining the techniques. I was amazed how easy it was to follow her instructions. It was almost as having her, as my private talented teacher, in my own 

room!!

 

The eBook has a lot of information not only about French Beading techniques but also about bouquet's styles. It even has explanation about the meaning of the flowers that are commonly used in wedding bouquets (this was a real surprise!!)

Most important - it advances gradually.

The beginner (as myself) can learn the techniques of french beading and advance gradually, step by step, from making the individual flower to the whole bouquet.

The experienced beader can also find lots of information that will teach and inspire him.

In summary: A wonderful book and I recommend it wormly.

This is Katie's website.

A giveaway

Would you like to win "Bead Flowers and Wedding Bouquets" eBook for free?

You have a chance to win it.

All you have to do is leave a comment below and you will automatically be entered to win!!

If you tweet about it, post on facebook, or on your blog leave me messages about every post and you will be entered as many times as your posts. 

Please please include your email, or your blog adress in your comment. 
I must have an email to contact the winner.

I will close the giveaway on the 4th of may 2013 at midnight our time.

(UTC+02:00) 

Thank you for reading this review and joining the giveaway.

Yours

Miri

Beaded art Doll Competition

ALL DOODLED UP:  BEADED ART DOLL COMPETITION 

Deadline: 31.8.2013

One of my favorite competitions.

"Create a BEADED ART DOLL by manipulating beads and forms into an imaginative

tactile and visual 3-dimensional representation. And then write a Short Story

about your Beaded Art Doll, what it represents, and how it was created.

ALL DOLLED UP: BEADED ART DOLL COMPETITION is offering a first prize of a $1000.00!!!

shopping spree on the Land of Odds web-site (www.landofodds.com), and a Runner-Up

prize of a $400.00 shopping spree on the web-site. This is more than a beauty

pageant. It is a design competition. The Competition will take into account

the Artist’s intentions and how well these are incorporated into the design.

Enter to Win!..."

Александра Волкова (Aliaska-strange) - Beaded Jewlry

Beading is amazing. A talented artist Александра Волкова(Aliaska-strange) made these jewelry.

So unique and beautiful. 

For me it is a real inspiration..

Don't you agree?

Made by Aliaska-strang

Made by Aliaska-strang

Made by Aliaska-strang

Made by Aliaska-strang

Hurry to enter the bead book giveaway!

Giveaway: A-Z of Bead Embriodery 

The giveaway is by Wild roses and blackberries

The 28th of September is the last day to enter

Good luck

Sherry Serafini Make Bracelet

The Artist Sherry Serafini on youtube. One of my favorite tutorials. Watch and learn:

Here are some of Sherry Serafini's amazing work of art: