söndag 20 maj 2012

The winner of the BUTTON give away is

I used a random picker from the internet and the winner of those buttons is

Crafty Hope

will You please mail me Your address !! so i can ship those buttons to You

I took a little tour in the garden to find something nice for a picture and choose on of my favorite flowers...still in bloom and smelling gorgeously ( have lots of those :) as it is very late spring over here this year

this guy took the chance of a tour in the garden as well as i forgot tho close the door to the garden room

was not planning to let him out just now as it is a little wet from a few raindrops..

and finally a necklace finished not long ago with a flower from the garden

Thank You for stopping by

And I wish You a happy new week

Birgitta

söndag 13 maj 2012

Button Swap Blog Hop And a Give Away

First I want to thank the talented Cindy Wimmer at Sweet Bead Studio

for hosting this button swap with so many partners to administrate !
I love buttons and this is so much fun!
I cant wait to see what everybody is making this time.....

I also have a give away of a bunch of buttons in this post to celebrate 100+ followers on my blog !!

There is a complete list of the participating artists at the end of my post
You can find pictures of the gorgeous buttons I got from my partner Pam if You click here

I started out with one big fantastic Vintage button to make some kind of necklace in the style Im working now ...lots of silk and ethnic feel ..but It is not working out as I was thinking .....so it is not finished yet...hm.......still not sure about the neck part..and the dangle from the button ...just got stuck...... jiiikes;)

But I am lucky to have lots of pretty buttons to choose from and decided to go for some earrings instead

I used 2 domed copper buttons with leaf patterns hand made by Pam ..they are heavily oxidated here ..

hand forged hammered copper rings

Indonesian handmade glass beads

( by the way * glass * means ice cream in Swedish :) glass is spelled glas in Swedis with one s )

rhinestone rondelle beads

and some of those ancient looking new Czech glass beads

sterling silver ox. lever backs

And one more pair with those pretty vintage red flower buttons I fell in love with at once :)

had some nice tassels i really wanted to use

rhinestone spacers

Czech glass beads in red

sterling lever backs

and voila .....those look really great on ...but no pictures of that yet..

This morning I made a bracelet with one of those beautiful "stacked" mother of pearl vintage buttons + some vintage shank buttons from my own stash

faceted Pyrite

and Czech glass

Going to make a couple of stretch bracelets to go with this one / stacking

still have a few lovely buttons left and the gorgeous pendant made by Pam

and Im thinking about a necklace with the pendant and the 5$ buttons and other things as Im going to use it all ..thinking...thinking.....:)

Those are the buttons for the giveaway

All made by me

4 shank, 1 four hole , 1 one hole, and 2 two hole different glazes and clays..

All You have to do is to leave a comment and tell me You are interested in those !!

I will randomly pick a winner next Sunday May 20

Thank You for stopping by and have a glorious day !!

Birgitta
who do have lots of problems with the internet lately and sometimes can not post or comment
will be back during the day with more earrings ......unfinished on my bead-table ......if the net is working

and now take a tour around :

Alice Peterson and Kim Bender

Angie Blasingame and Billi R.S. Rothove

Billi R.S. Rothove and Angie Blasingame

Birgitta Lejonklou and Pam Farren

Bonnie Coursolle and Tania Hagen

Brenda Salzano and Hope Smitherman

Cat Kerr and Heather Powers

Cece Cornier and Jeannie Dukic

Celeste Thurston and Christine Damm

Christine Damm and Celeste Thurston

Christine Stonefield and Dana James