7th Bead Soup Blog Party - The Participants

We have obligation to browse to all participants' blogs which I really am looking forward to. I love all of them. All blogs are beautifully written and have lots of beautiful pictures... Below are their names and blogs: (I copied from Lori's blog)

7th Bead Soup Blog Party - My Partner

As I wrote here last January, I am participating in Bead Soup Blog Party and on 9th of February I got email from Lori about who is my partner.  Her name is Elizabeth Jones from Eye Kandy Jewellery and Design. We're in the 3rd batch to reveal, which is 13 April 2013.

Liz loves all kind of crafts. In her blog you will see her making not only beading jewellery, but also many kind of crafts using button, cloth, old material (and change it to something new like recycling an old record *amazing.....* ), clay, even making a natural lip gloss.....*wowwwww....*. What is very good of her is that she put all the tutorial on how to make those things in her blog and I got one for myself when I subscribed to her blog.

Liz loves beautiful things and make them as her inspirations in making jewellery and other crafts. She loves nature and use it to inspire her on color, texture and format..... everything. Many things I can learn from her.... She has a very cozy room as her craft room and her office.... Hope someday I will have one too :).

I've seen her blog, her Facebook,  her Etsy shop and her jewellery design, and the truth is I really am worried whether she'll like my bead soup mixture for her. All of her jewellery designs are amazingly beautiful........ while I am still a beginner *sigh*. On the other hand.... I really am curious of what she will send me.....

Because I am not allowed to show my bead soup, so I just give a hint by this blur picture of the box.

Tomorrow I will send my package..... and pray that she'll love all of them.

1st Indonesia Bead Swap - Reveal day

Remember my post on the 1st Indonesia Bead Swap by Manik Jawa ? Because all participants have sent and received the beads.... and eager to see what each other sent and received so the Reveal Day is change to today the 3rd of February 2013. All are beautiful..... some sent the beads they made and they are awesome *wow..wow... and wow*... and the pictures which put in Manik Jawa facebook were wowwww too.... amazing to see their talent including in photography.

Me... I am not too good in photography and I don't have a good camera, only my blackberry camera... so I used PAINT to make it a little bit different from my usual picture.

So these are the beads I received from my partner Motemanika Beads.

There are three dominant colors, white, blue and maroon. I received four focals and I love the ceramic focal with flower and the three oval beads with two colors, creme and maroon. She also send me two types of metal beads as spacer. What surprised me is the brown "wood" ring form with flower clay and brown wire. It is so cool...I think my picture of beads I received is too small, so it might be difficult to see the beauty of the beads. Like the white beads at the bottom left, they are very beautiful rose. I should take a bigger picture and I think I will do that before I make something from the beads.

What I sent? This is the picture took by Ika, because I forgot to take the picture before sending the beads.

My beads are from Almas Beads Manik Jawa, Dnayra Sweet, V2 Accessories by Fifi Prins and Studio Manik.

Now, I am thinking of what I should make........ thinking...... thinking....... see you soon...... thinking.......

7th Bead Soup Blog Party - The Registration

Wowwwww...... I can't believe that I'll be a part of a party that is sooo famous..... bead soup blog party was started by Lori Anderson and this year is the 7th! The participants are almost reach 500 from all over the world. Could you imagine how big is the party.... and I am a part of it.There is my name in this link http://www.prettythingsblog.com/2013/01/sign-ups-are-open-for-7th-bead-soup.html

I have thinking of my soup for several days..... and I starting to choose of what I will send to my partner.Hopefully it will be a nice blend of ingredients that can make a tasty and hot soup.

La...la...la.... I feel like dancing....

Nowww.... let's start preparing the soupppp ingredients .....

1st Indonesia Bead Swap - The Beginning

This week I dealt with a mixture of all feeling that exist in my whole human life. A feeling of sadness, losses, relieved, happy and many more that cannot be expressed in writing but can be described as a bowl of soup of life.

The sudden  passed away of my beloved sister in law shocked me and all of our big families and today I can still feel an emptiness in my heart. Just like when I have to deal with my mother's. This sadness mixed with relieved every time I remember her pain during her unconsciousness-es.

This week also I am involved in 1st Indonesia Bead Swap  arranged by Manik Jawa and have a very merry friend, Ika Motemanika Beads. Me and Ika exchanged a mixture of beads to make soup of beads..... beads in many forms just like beads of life which consitst of beads for happiness, sadness, hope, pain, relieved, beauty, suffer etc.

We're not allowed to show the beads up til 9th of February so although I and Ika has finished sending each other our mixture of beads,  we can't show you our beads. To make you more curious these are what I sent to her

And these what I get from her

Curious???? Wait until 9th of February 2013

Brooches for a good friend.....

My friend in the office like to put brooch as an accent of her dress and hijab ("kerudung"). So, I made 4 brooches and 2 pin brooches for her. Too bad I don't have the picture of the pin brooches. I used stones and flowers from Dnayra Sweet. The last four brooches are these:

End of the year projects

 I think I was very productive during end of this year. I made totally 12 brooches and 4 pendants for friends and families, and  of course for myself. It is started when I found out that my netting was really bad. I  compared my works with friends who took lessons at the same time with me and I still left behind. Other reason was my husband started mentioning about how I bought lots of stones just to put them in the shoe boxes. So, one day I promised my self that instead of buying stones I would turn them into brooches and pendants. And these are they.... the two months brooches and pendants. Can you see the difference in my netting? I think I can do the netting better now. But still I always confuse doing netting near the top/beginning/end of the wire.

The first four are pendants, the rest are brooches (I put 4 brooches, ordered by a friend - Yeti- to different article.... just to make the pictures in this article less confusing). I bought the stones from Dnayra Sweet and the Druzy from Fifi Prinz (also known as Juna Lee).