Aladdin

At last, I am showing a few of my very own handmade glass beads!! Simon (my OH....oooh look at me I know some blog speak now, taken me a longtime to work it out though!!) bought me a bead making kit for Christmas and in between everything else, I have just got the hang of the basics. There is a mixture of blue and purple glass beads in here that I never intended to go in the same necklace! Also, whilst experimenting with the glass, and watching to see how two colours work together, I made some yellow and blue beads; the contrast was lovely, but I didn't plan to use them...Not until I decided to make this necklace anyway..I laid them out with the others, expecting to take them away again, but no, they look fantastic! As usual, my photography lets me down and you just don't get the colours showing as well as they could, but I hope you can see just a little bit!

Oh and for those of you who haven't yet looked at the title, would you have guessed that it was aladdin? I hope so! The purples, blues and gold and yellows are just made me think of Aladdin straight away!
Kids are back to school now, so I have set myself a goal of posting at least one blog a week and tweet at least once a day.

Thanks for looking!!

Has it really been that long?!!!

Oh my god! Doesn't time fly! I realised that I hadn't blogged for a while, but three months? Now I'm going to make good on that one..

I had a bit of a blip in inspiration for jewellery making recently and got sidetracked making a few other things instead... (They'll be going on here later...) So I bought myself a beading magazine. Just what I needed to spring me back in to creativity. A very sympathetic partner then helped by buying me a repalcement gas bottle so that I could go back to 'experimenting' with making my own beads.. (for those of you who don't know, I was made redundant about three months ago and even though I now have a new job, money has been a bit tight.). So, I sat down over the weekend and thought of a theme, not an original one on this occasion, but my friend gave me the idea without even realising it! just by telling me of her next years holiday plans..The result? Disney inspired colours... They use such vibrant colours in their animation, that I decided to base a collection of jewellery each with a specific film in mind....Oh and for those keen eyes out there, this one is not using handmade beads, they'll be appearing in another creation.

So this first one is from the colours in Fantasia. Why not start at the very beginning and use this magical film to make a magical shiny necklace? The beads are big and chunky but are made from acrylic, which means that it is not too heavy to wear comfortably. By using the purple and siver coloured tigertail it also sits almost 'magically' (see what I did there?!!) and appears to 'float' on your neckline. I love this necklace, purple has got to be one of my most favourite colours.

The picture doesn't do it justice really; theres are two different silver colours, shiny and matt whch gives a good contrast to the purple without being too 'samey'.

Enjoy!

Any comments or suggestions for other films, leave a comment..