7th Bead Soup Blog Party - is now in the Pinterest

7th Bead Soup Blog Party now is in the Pinterest. This is great, Pinterest is an application in the internet where you can posts, follows, pins, comments everything you like.  And the good thing about it is that you can always see the pictures again and again at anytime...... Just like a board where you can pin pictures. Love this Pinterest very much, because all the beautiful things, nature and handmade, are there...... and we can scroll it and look for inspirations.....

This is the address http://pinterest.com/limamike/7th-bead-soup-blog-party-participants-only/

This special board was designed by Lori special for the participants of the 7th Bead Soup Blog Party. In the Board all the participants can post the beads they received and the ending results. I can imagine what it would be like..... Pictures of wonderful handmade jewelries...... just to imagine that has make me hold my breath..... wowwwwwww.......

You've Got Mail

I've just seen an old (not that old though....) movie.... You've Got Mail starred by Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan (1998). I love this movie..... it contrasted everything new and old... that although eventually the new ones will deprive the old ones, but still for me everything old should be maintained. It depicts how internet has changed the world, changed human relation, how we can easily discuss our private feeling to someone we barely know.

Another thing that I love about this movie is the bookstore owned by Kathleen Kelly (Meg Ryan).... oh how I love if there is a bookstore like that here.... where we are treated like a human and not just a consumer, where the owner knows everything about the books, where there is a personal touch in every product sold. The bag for the books is from specially designed cloth, not some cold and boring, inartistic plastic bags. Where the owner knows you by name.....how warm the feeling must be....

I also love the small bookstore design, it is lovely.... and the market (traditional?) where you can buy so many varieties of beautiful flowers. And last but not least.... I love the song "Somewhere over the rainbow" sang by Harry Nilsson in the ending part of the movie. It is a song from Wizard of Oz...

I love Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in their romantic movie, Sleepless in Seattle and this You've Got Mail. According to Wikipedia there is one more Joe Versus Volcano, but I don't think I ever saw and heard about it.

And this is the lyric of the song:
Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high,
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue,
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.

Someday I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far
Behind me.
Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me.

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly.
Birds fly over the rainbow.
Why then, oh why can't I?

If happy little bluebirds fly
Beyond the rainbow
Why, oh why can't I?

And this is the real singer;

Hmmmm........ what is the connection between the movie, the song and handmade jewellery...... I am not sure, maybe the rainbow reminds me of the beautiful colors of beads.

Again..... A Challenge......

Just now Manik Jawa announced the participants of a new challenge called 1st Tantang Dirimoe which means Challenge yourself. And the challenge is to make the Raden Saleh famous painting In Letzter Not, which you can see in her article, as an inspiration of whatever art you make.

I love art, although I really am aware that I am not an artist at all and have not, even just a little, a taste, a feeling or an eye as an artist....But still I love all beautiful things, God creations and human made. And this painting is so beautiful and whenever I see it my adrenalin rise just to imagine the feeling of the man in the painting. This is the picture I copied from Manik Jawa.

In Letzter Not, 1842

Oil on canvas

154cm x 168.5cm

by

Raden Sarief Bastaman Saleh (1807 - 1880)

So, back to the challenge ...... we should make this painting as an inspiration,  from all possible perspectives  as long as it is not a reproduction of the painting. We can take only the color or the form or anything from this picture for our handmade product.

The names of the participant is listed here and I am one of them. Although.... yes you're right... I don't have any idea what to make by seeing the painting. But this is a challenge, and like any other challenge I have to let go my imagination to the unlimited possibilities. Today, while this is weekend and I have a whole day just to myself, I think I will think about it.....

Before close this blog for today, I like to give credit to and congratulate Manik Jawa who has made and initiate this challenge. You're awesome and have lots of amazing ideas.

New "ME"

As you can see, I changed my blog layout and color...... I think it is time to change... to make my blog more alive and trendy... I choose this color, GREEN,  which is happened to be my favorite color, to express the new trend of this year. Green always reminds me of natures- forests, leaves, trees, bushes, grasses, butterflies (and some other animals, birds, chameleon, grasshopper). Sometimes green also reflected in lakes, seas, mountains..... Green warms my heart, it is bright but not harsh.... it looks nice to combine with many colors... it cherishes.....

I hope this change will boost my spirit this year and affect all my works, my life, my love.........

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.......