Treasures of the Ocean Freeform Bracelet

EBW April Challenge - Time Machine

***Thanks so much to everyone who voted for my entry!, which came in second place***

Etsy BeadWeavers' Challenge theme for April was "Time Machine". This theme was brought to us by Mariya of BeadCatcher, who won the January/February Challenge
Here's what Mariya had to say about this theme:
"I guess everybody once in a while has had that thought "What if?" Yes, what if you were given a once in a life time chance to travel through time and space; to travel into past or future; to travel into a real or imagined world? Where would you go? What would you see there? Just think about it. Take the trip and share it with us in the form of beading art with its unlimited possibilities!".

Voting on this challenge is open and will last until the 15th. Please visit EBW blog, pick up your favorite and vote for it. My entry is #9 on the list.

Excited about this inspirational, imaginative theme, I decided to use the time machine for traveling in the future. The beautiful women I met on my journey had smooth brilliant hair and they were wearing bright silver elegant outfits. This is the necklace, earrings & bracelet I designed for those women I met on my journey to the future… :)

Welcome Spring Necklace

I usually buy my beads just because I like their color, shape etc., and then I think what I should make with them. But with these dyed freshwater pearls I knew exactly what I want to create with them - a necklace in coral stitch. It's a very simple coral necklace, "lazy" coral stitched if you'd like.. ;D but I like how airy and delicate it came out.

Good News and New Necklace & Earrings

I've received good news from Bead&Button magazine, that they are going to publish one of my necklaces in the October-November issue! Yey! :)

I don't bead much lately, mainly because my muse is probably being "mean" to me... I try to start a new work, one of many that I had an idea for, but then I get stuck with picking the right colors and/or the size of beads, or the idea is just not working and I have to unpick the work time after time. So I end up frustrated.
I hate it when it happens, but I decided not to fight this too much - I just sketch the ideas in my notebook and leave them for a later time, when my muse will "play" nicely with me... :)
I anyhow don't have a lot of time for beading, as Passover Holiday is coming soon and there's a lot of preparations to do.
I also volunteered to coordinate the BAO Welcomes Spring Sale & Giveaways, coming soon. You better keep an eye on the Bead Art Originals group , because there are going to be some gorgeous items to give away!

Yemenite Inspired Embroidered Necklace

Not so long ago, I've created my Ancestral Expressions embroidered cuff and wasn't very pleased with the way it came out. I needed to practice my bead embroidery work. I was really upset back then, after spending so many hours working on my cuff (which intended to enter the EBW challenge, but didn't) but with the encouragement and advice, given to me by a very dear friend, who is a talented bead artist, I decided to try to create another Yemenite inspired embroidered piece.

Well, not that it was easier for me this time... bead embroidery is a difficult task for me, for some reason, and I had some trouble finding the right materials, but leaving it unfinished wasn't an option.. I just had to bring life to a new Yemenite style piece! :)
I had a general idea for a start and the rest just came up with the progress.. And I really love how it came out! I think the embroidery work is not bad; It's a bold necklace, in one of my favorite color combination and it has the Yemenite elements that I really love in it...What could I possibly want more? OK, I wish it would have taken me less than the 30 something hours it took me to create it, but hey!, I managed to finish it without any major disasters, and that's the important thing..
I can't wait to show it to my mother, to hear what she thinks of it. I hope she likes it as much as I do...