Art Bead Scene monthly challenge DECEMBER

This months challenge did speak to me in a wonderful way with the TWO gorgeous paintings

by  John Anster Fitzgerald

I decided to make some jewelry with this inspiration and first out was this necklace were I tried to paint with my beads to make  the painting STORM in wearable form

  a closer look at the pendant i made from porcelain


 then I created those earrings with gorgeous lamp-work beads and my own soldered hoops

and with those on ABS blog I was  Featured Designer of the Week .......


Here's what Art Bead Scene editor Jennifer Heynen had to say about Birgitta's piece...

"I love all the textures that are included in Birgitta's earrings. They are absolutely lovely."

  THANK YOU !!

As I do love those paintings so much i am going to make a line of jewelry with  this faerie theme 
I do have some ceramic I made waiting for me :)

...read more about the challenge HERE

The HEART for today

My dear cat Anton is a very loving spirit as long as I do not  use the brush to much on him.....
He has the longest and most hard to keep up fer I ever saw in a cat and I did have a bunch  (Persian)
When I work in the studio he likes to be in my lap - not a good idea as he is getting very big - soon 9 months old..
my chair is really whining out loud  when he tries to jump up and sit behind my head on top of the chair.....

well the HEART  is physical  also!!

he has a NOSE  with that shape I did not see before so clearly :)

CLAY-PLAY

It was very fun to test different glaces and oxides last time I could get a little space in Kia´s kiln / about 50 pc.

I made a few of different colors to test and some angels and beads in just white porcelain fired twice as they are and those I loooove really ...most of the experimenting turned out  ok so i know a bit how to go ahead with the lot waiting......the thing that does not work for me is decals...now for the second time as I use stonewere glace may be they need higher temp to burn ? well I will try again...

 from this colorful  lot I got the pendant to my "Storm-necklace" ....abs dec. challenge..

The Messy Beaders' Club ( who would not belong there??)

Almost everyday my intention is to clean out the space and some days i do but then when I start to create i get a lot of stuff out of my drawers and closets and even put some boxes on the floor  eeeewwwww

hm....

The words from A. Einstein on top of  the page  *The messy Beaders* club is a bit comforting though....read it HERE

and even if i do have veeeeeeeeeery much  (I started out buying wholesale as I helped some friends start a bead shop in town 2005) I  can still find almost anything in this lot...

I do sell beads but at the moment I do not put any energy into that and my bead shop at Etsy is empty

but Im planning to do something about that next Year as i also started to make my own parts more and more

I will also sell some of my handmade creations for jewelry

at the moment I can move the mouse for the computer   :)

SALE REA Julhalsband i rött

4 julhalsband finns på min hemsida till REA- pris

Friday Creativity

First I made a bracelet with some of my own ceramic ; button and charm

one more bracelet with my own flower /polymer clay

And then a necklace with Nan´s pendant

Painting with beads

I made a new piece of jewelry for the ABS december challenge  

were I tried to capture the colors and structures and feelings from this painting that was given for  inspiration

and here is my painting in beads and fibres 

And here is a link to the December Challenge