Slowly but surely my living room starts to look like store of Moroccan and Indian decor stuff, but one thing was still missing - a picture on the wall. So I thought I use up my old polymer clay to create a mosaic. I wanted it to look like a moroccan mirror (probably I will add a few mirror tiles later), with all my favorite patterns I use for making jewelry. Its colors are perfect for my living room, I'm quite satisfied. And I'm already planning the next mosaic. It probably won't be this large though.
Polymer clay mosaic / Mozaikkép süthető gyurmából
Az indiai-marokkói mániám elhatalmasodása és a falamon tátongó üresség okán nemrég elhatároztam hogy ha már úgyis van néhány adag régebbi gyurmám, felhasználom őket egy mozaikképhez. Kivételesen ezt meg is terveztem (persze részben csak azért hogy legyen mitől eltérni), gondoltem egy ekkora darabnak nem állok neki "csak úgy". Egy nemrég beszerzett marokkói tükör adta az ötletet, a mintázáshoz pedig felhasználtam a kedvenc gyurmás eszközeimet. 1-2 hétvége és néhány este alatt el is készült a kép (A3-as méretben) és már a nappali falát díszíti. Éppenséggel nem tökéletes, de nekem nagyon is megfelel, a lilás-rezes-rózsaszínes összhatás pedig pont passzol a nappali színeihez. Már tervezem a következőt :)
Slowly but surely my living room starts to look like store of Moroccan and Indian decor stuff, but one thing was still missing - a picture on the wall. So I thought I use up my old polymer clay to create a mosaic. I wanted it to look like a moroccan mirror (probably I will add a few mirror tiles later), with all my favorite patterns I use for making jewelry. Its colors are perfect for my living room, I'm quite satisfied. And I'm already planning the next mosaic. It probably won't be this large though.
Slowly but surely my living room starts to look like store of Moroccan and Indian decor stuff, but one thing was still missing - a picture on the wall. So I thought I use up my old polymer clay to create a mosaic. I wanted it to look like a moroccan mirror (probably I will add a few mirror tiles later), with all my favorite patterns I use for making jewelry. Its colors are perfect for my living room, I'm quite satisfied. And I'm already planning the next mosaic. It probably won't be this large though.
Bead Soup Blog Party contest - Happy Dance!!
This is so exciting! 2 of my bead soup designs have been chosen as winners of this year's Bead Soup contest!
This is the first time Lori organized a contest for the pieces, there were over 900 participants and the 7 judges have chosen 46 winners. I'm so honored to be among them! If you browse through this Pinterest board where participants shared their creations, you will understand why I didn' expect to win at all. There were hundreds of amazing pieces!
To see my necklace and earrings today in Lori's post announcing the winners made me so happy I wanted to dance around my apartment. It didn't really happen though, due to an akle sprain that happened a few days ago... I just did a little sitting dance on the sofa :)
These fun green earrings were chosen by Fusion Beads as a winner of 'Best use of color'. They were made with painted pebbles by Plymouth Rocks, that I received from my partner, Malin.
The barrel beads, the silk cord, the teardrop and the metal component (originally part of a clasp) were also sent to me by Malin. This necklace was chosen by Nina Designs as a winner of 'Best use of fiber'. Yay!
Thank you Malin for this great soup and congratulations for being one of the winners!
This necklace of Malin won the Judge's choice award (by Nina Designs). Well deserved!
Please visit Lori's blog to see the other winners here: Winners of BSBP7 and to read more about the judges here: Judges of BSBP7.
Thank you Lori for organizing this years huge blog party, it's been so much fun! I hope I can participate next year too. Also, Thank you Nina Designs and Fusion Beads for picking my pieces, it is such an honor for me!
This is the first time Lori organized a contest for the pieces, there were over 900 participants and the 7 judges have chosen 46 winners. I'm so honored to be among them! If you browse through this Pinterest board where participants shared their creations, you will understand why I didn' expect to win at all. There were hundreds of amazing pieces!
To see my necklace and earrings today in Lori's post announcing the winners made me so happy I wanted to dance around my apartment. It didn't really happen though, due to an akle sprain that happened a few days ago... I just did a little sitting dance on the sofa :)
These fun green earrings were chosen by Fusion Beads as a winner of 'Best use of color'. They were made with painted pebbles by Plymouth Rocks, that I received from my partner, Malin.
The barrel beads, the silk cord, the teardrop and the metal component (originally part of a clasp) were also sent to me by Malin. This necklace was chosen by Nina Designs as a winner of 'Best use of fiber'. Yay!
Thank you Malin for this great soup and congratulations for being one of the winners!
This necklace of Malin won the Judge's choice award (by Nina Designs). Well deserved!
Please visit Lori's blog to see the other winners here: Winners of BSBP7 and to read more about the judges here: Judges of BSBP7.
Thank you Lori for organizing this years huge blog party, it's been so much fun! I hope I can participate next year too. Also, Thank you Nina Designs and Fusion Beads for picking my pieces, it is such an honor for me!
Bead Soup Party 7 reveal! / Gyöngyleves tálalva!
Today is the 3rd reveal date of Lori Anderson's 7th Bead Soup Party so it is time to show what I cooked from the gorgeous ingredients I received from my partner. The pack of beads I received from Malin was really amazing and so generous, with many art beads and special things I've never used before.
One of these special things was a pair of dyed silk cocoons, which turned into a pair of simple earrings.
I have already worn them and I've got many compliments, everyone found them so exotic.
I have made two more pairs of earrings, a really simple pair from the glass acorn beads, and another from the painted pebble beads. They are painted with shades if yellow and green, colors I love so much. I just added large olive faceted beads and silver wire, Although these are a bit heavy to wear, I really love them.
I used one of the clasps I received as a focal for a necklace, with the red barrel beads, the cream sari cord and one of the faceted teardrops. Red is not really my color but I thought my mom likes and wears red, so a necklace could be a nice gift for her. This is also why I wanted to keep it simple.
Then here come two bracelets. I thought the mauve sari strand fits so well with the beautiful copper and enamel clasp, I just added copper wire and copper chain and some purple glass breads. For the other bracelet (this is my favorite piece) I used the yellow-green sari strand with a lampwork bead I purchased from a Hungarian artist some time ago, bronze-tone lucite beads, olive green and metallic green glass beads.
So this is it. Working with beads like these (as I'm a seed beader) is always a challenge for me but one I enjoy a lot. I also planned to use the large dark green ceramic pendant in bead embroidery but unfortunately I didn't have time to do it yet. Until then I'm really happy with these pieces :)
Dear Malin, thank you for sending me this great bead soup, and thank you Lori too for hosting this blog hop again! :)
Please visit Malin's blog to see what she made from my bead soup :) For a list of all participants (including the 1st and 2nd reveal dates) please visit Lori's blog.
Participants of the 3rd reveal:
One of these special things was a pair of dyed silk cocoons, which turned into a pair of simple earrings.
I have already worn them and I've got many compliments, everyone found them so exotic.
I have made two more pairs of earrings, a really simple pair from the glass acorn beads, and another from the painted pebble beads. They are painted with shades if yellow and green, colors I love so much. I just added large olive faceted beads and silver wire, Although these are a bit heavy to wear, I really love them.
I used one of the clasps I received as a focal for a necklace, with the red barrel beads, the cream sari cord and one of the faceted teardrops. Red is not really my color but I thought my mom likes and wears red, so a necklace could be a nice gift for her. This is also why I wanted to keep it simple.
Then here come two bracelets. I thought the mauve sari strand fits so well with the beautiful copper and enamel clasp, I just added copper wire and copper chain and some purple glass breads. For the other bracelet (this is my favorite piece) I used the yellow-green sari strand with a lampwork bead I purchased from a Hungarian artist some time ago, bronze-tone lucite beads, olive green and metallic green glass beads.
So this is it. Working with beads like these (as I'm a seed beader) is always a challenge for me but one I enjoy a lot. I also planned to use the large dark green ceramic pendant in bead embroidery but unfortunately I didn't have time to do it yet. Until then I'm really happy with these pieces :)
Dear Malin, thank you for sending me this great bead soup, and thank you Lori too for hosting this blog hop again! :)
Please visit Malin's blog to see what she made from my bead soup :) For a list of all participants (including the 1st and 2nd reveal dates) please visit Lori's blog.
Participants of the 3rd reveal:
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Cheri Reed
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Christa
Murphy
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Hickman
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Stofmeel
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Stonefield
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Liebisch
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