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Friday, June 5, 2015

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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Tutorial: Single St Petersburg chain

Goodmorning lovelies,

     Here is my gift to you this morning, a simple tutorial on St Petersburg stitch, The versatile stitch comes in a single chain,double chain, and Russian eyelets. Today we will be learning  how to make a single chain into a necklace with a Vee at the middle.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Four ways you can wear your spiral rope


Goodmorning Lovelies, 


I know by now many of you are already familiar with spiral rope, if not click here for the tutorial on spiral rope, I hope the smile on my face will brighten your day, do have a nice day and remain blessed. 

Monday, June 1, 2015

Great Beaders Around the world - SONOKO NOZUE

Goodmorning friends, 

   While surfing the internet this morning I stumbled on a great Japanese beader SONOKO NOZUE, she took my breath away with her awesome and beautiful beadwork,  I appreciate God for the talent he has bestowed upon her, and Japanese beaders in general,  they are really trying.

SONOKO NOZUE


According to Amazon.com

     Sonoko Nozue was Born in Tokyo in 1945, she resides in Japan.
Graduated from the College of Humanities and Science, Nihon University, in 1968, with majors in Japanese and Japanese literature.
She Began teaching bead classes in Nagoya in 1995.
She's the President of Bead Salon Sonoko, a group whose activities include organizing workshops taught by the author, producing commissioned beaded pieces for special exhibitions, and participating in events that promote beading in Japan and stimulate interest in this field.
In 2006, became the first foreign instructor at the Bead&Button Show. Since then, has attended this event every year. Her beadwork won the Bead Dreams Finalist in the Seed Beads Wearable category in both 2005 and 2007.
She Taught at Bead Art Show Kobe in 2006, and Bead Art Show Yokohama in 2007. In the same year, taught the workshop "CREATE YOUR STYLE with CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements" at the Japan Hobby Show.
She Served as a judge for the Bead Grand Prix competition sponsored by Yomiuri newspaper and the Japan Art Accessories Association.
Supervised the bead crochet correspondence course taught by the Japan Art Accessories Association.

Sonoko Nozue wrote Japanese Beadwork with Sonoko Nozue: 25 Jewelry Designs from a Master Artist it was published by lark crafts in 2012.

 Here are some of her beautiful beadworks and also the front cover of   Japanese Beadwork with Sonoko Nozue, see them after the cut.


Friday, May 29, 2015

INTRO-DUCING GLITZ LEAVES





DESIGN NAME: Glitz leaves.
TYPE OF STITCH: St Petersburg stitch and spiral rope. 
COLOUR: Red and Gold. 
TYPE OF BEAD USED: Size 2 seed bead.







What do think about this awesome design? 
Dont forget to leave a comment.

Happy Beading, 
Tomisin.   


Monday, May 25, 2015

Hiiiiiiiii

      

        It's been a while, it's not that I am not beading, just an awful lot to do and not enough time, besides am battling with so many things here. 

   
My beading table is so filled up with a lot of project, you know how greedy I can be with bead projects, jumping from one project to another without completing one.

        Been playing around with a couple of stitches lately,  especially the ever versatile peyote stitch, I tell you, the possibilities with peyote stitch are endless.  Trying to bezel my cabochons, using peyote stitch,   I hope it came out fine.

    On my last post about my beading table,  I told you I was making some peyote/herringbone triangles, am through with it, but I didnt make it into a necklace,  I turned it into a brooch, still dont know what neckpiece to attach it too.
Lol...how come I have a gold colour in my brooch, I guess every mistake
is a design. 

     I have some leaves on that table,  ready to be  attached to a spiral rope,  made 35 leaves, it took me 3 days to make those leaves (laziness.....lol), it wasn't easy, I must tell you,  doing the same thing over and over again, it was tiring and I hate it, I hope it will come out fine when I get to put them together, "it better be fine...lol" .



So what are you making right now? 
Share your project with me on my facebook page  BEADGLITZ NG 
Thanks to those that have shared, it really means  a lot to me.


Happy beading,
Tomisin. 

Monday, May 11, 2015

My beading Table



Good day everyone, 

        It's been a long time, so sorry about my style of blogging, very slow, as many people have pointed it out to me, its due to a lot of reason, am so sorry, I guess am pardoned.  
       So I got this beautiful beads on my table, Yellow and Black size 3 seed beads, and am making this awesome design with it, herringbone/Peyote Triangle, am going to be making three of them, and I want to make them into a necklace,  although I have no idea how am going to do that, maybe I will just suspend them on a herringbone collar.  I just hope its going to be beautiful,  I have no doubt about that though. 

What's on your beading table right now?