Girly Objects

necklace Full Moon

"What’s Old is New Again!" is Artbeads new blogging challenge. It was a great luck for me because I had old watch parts which I was eager to incorporate in jewelry. Idea formed momentarily and it was very easy to choose necessary supplies from a great variety Artbeads has: Vintage Beads, Retro Buttons, Steampunk, Base Metal, Kabela Design, Resin Cameos. I chose beautiful Czech Fire-Polished Beads, Swarovski Pearls in Night Blue color, my all time favorite Miyuki delicas and Toho rocailles and antique brass findings to make the look harmonic with my watch parts. My order arrived safe, beautifully packaged with a lovely personal note and all my supplies were the highest quality as usual. One of the new products for me were Czech Fire-Polished Beads, which I didn't use much before. They fitted my design perfectly and added special shine and look, I found them to very versatile. Since this project they are my new must haves.

This piece was one of my first embroidery necklaces and I loved the technique a lot! Will be definitely back to it in my new designs.

It is a great honor and luck to be Artbeads blogging program participant. I want to thank all Artbeads team for this wonderful opportunity!

I am very grateful to my husband for making this fantastic face for my design :)

Disclosure: Being participant of the Artbeads blogging program I have received the products from Artbeads free of charge and I am honestly reviewing them. I have not been paid for any endorsement of the products.

necklace and earrings "Casual Opulence"

Swarovski Crystal Chatons and Crystal Golden Shadow rivoli button as a centerpiece, Swarovski Golden Bicones and Bronze Pearls, Miyuki Rocailles and Delicas in Bronze and Pearl Grey. Closure and earring findings are Gold-Filled.
Necklace measures 18"

necklace Empress of Ice

As a member of Artbeads blogging program I was asked to create a ‘Winter Enchantment’ design that represents what I find beautiful or inspirational about the winter season. My inspiration for creating this necklace was feminine side of the winter as I see it, I imagined dazzlingly beautiful, icy-cold, opulent Lady, Empress of Ice.

I chose lots of crystal clear Swarovski stones, as nothing can show winter shine how they do! Centerpiece is fabulous Swarovski Octagon, at first I underestimated the size choosing it from my screen, but when I saw it in person it appeared to be an impressive crystal monster. Luckily we worked together very well :)

This was the first time I worked with silver-plated xilions,  and I found them to be very versatile stones. They fitted my design quite easily and shined well together with the centerpiece. For bead-weaving work I chose  Miyuki delicas and Toho rocailles loved by me for their quality and uniformity and Swarovski (of course!) bicones. One of the discoveries for me was Crystal CAL, this was the first time I saw it in reality and can tell you that it was love from the first sight. It is very tough to resist my desire to order all possible sizes of it in enormous quantities, and I am not sure how much longer I can hold myself :)

I enjoyed inventing this necklace very much! It is a great honor and luck to be Artbeads blogging program participant. I want to thank all Artbeads team for this wonderful opportunity!

Disclosure: Being participant of the Artbeads blogging program I have received the products from Artbeads free of charge and I am honestly reviewing them. I have not been paid for any endorsement of the products.

necklace Burst of Passion

Tracey Ullman once said: As I get older, I just prefer to knit. Something similar is happening to me I guess. I prefer to bead. No one could  ever anticipate me creating beaded designs and with every new one I sit and stare at it: did I just made it? :)
Please meet my last piece of personal adornment, necklace and earrings Burst of Passion. What do you think guys?

bronze Swarovski pearls, Miyuki delica, gold Toho rocailles, gold-filled findings

necklace measures 18"

Necklace "All Eyes"

Lace necklace

Colors of Fall necklace

I am very happy to share with you my new jewelery design Colors of Fall necklace. I made it as a participant of Artbeads blogging program.



Inspiration for this necklace came from gorgeous colors of our autumn. This year luckily fall was very long and warm with only slight signs of frost in the mornings. So there were no question, main color palette for the necklace would be bright shiny red mixed with bronze and teal exactly how were leaves and sky this fall.

I started necklace with wonderful TOHO seed beads: metallic bronze, silver-lined teal and siam ruby, with accents of silver-lined teal magatamas and it really shined as you can imagine with such a variety of silver-lined and metallic finishes. I was slightly concerned with durability of metallic and silver-lined seed beads, but it surprised me, not even one got damaged while working. I was happy to find good quality metallic beads finally.



I was very curious to work with cubic zirconia, so orange oval drop in cubic zirconia worked just perfectly as centerpiece with simple column beads of the same color as a side accents. As expected orange drop looked more like red, very bright red, I ordered based on the photo, not the name and great quality of Artbeads product presentation did it's job, color was exactly how I wanted.



For embellishments I chose sparkly bicones from swarovski section in indicolite golden shadow and vitrail colors, and rounds in hyacinth. Colors worked great, I am sure I can trust planning colors for the new project from the screen when ordering from Artbeads.  Final touches were made with gorgeous leaf from czech glass leaf beads and teal green leaf bead from vintage section.



I truly enjoyed working on this project and hope this enjoyment contributed to the look of the necklace. Thanks a lot to Artbeads for giving me such a great opportunity, wonderful quality materials, friendly communication, prompt shipment. It was my pleasure to work with the whole team.

Disclosure: Being participant of the Artbeads blogging program I have received the products from Artbeads free of charge and I am honestly reviewing them. I have not been paid for any endorsement of the products.