Christmas Giveaway Reminder!

One more week for for a chance to win one (1) of the Christmas Giveaways!! If you haven't already entered, you may either comment on this post or HERE.

::As seen on previous post::


A blue beaded card, with a blue keychain and double ring, and a green keychain and set of hair pins. ("Ocean Blue Set")

Three sets of earrings, as seen above. ("Earring Set")



And a light blue bead/button card, red and green twisted hair pin with red keychain, and orange keychain with blue and orange hair pin set. ("Sky Blue Set").


Now, here are your instructions:
1). Leave a comment stating which set you want, using the name given.
2). Also in the comment tell me what your favourite Christmas song is.
3). If you have a blog, do a post just leaving a link to my name and saying that I am hosting a giveaway.

Giveaway starts today (Tuesday, 9th) and ends in 2 weeks time (Tuesday 23rd).

GOOD LUCK =)

Christmas, with a touch of a giveaway

It's that time of year again: 'Christmas giveaway' season.

Alice did one, Danielle is doing one and so am I. And with mine, I'm going to have three sets for three people to win. The first set is as seen below:


A blue beaded card, with a blue keychain and double ring, and a green keychain and set of hair pins. ("Ocean Blue Set")


Three sets of earrings, as seen above. ("Earring Set")


And a light blue bead/button card, red and green twisted hair pin with red keychain, and orange keychain with blue and orange hair pin set. ("Sky Blue Set").

Now, here are your instructions:
1). Leave a comment stating which set you want, using the name given.
2). Also in the comment tell me what your favourite Christmas song is.
3). If you have a blog, do a post just leaving a link to my name and saying that I am hosting a giveaway.



Giveaway starts today (Tuesday, 9th) and ends in 2 weeks time (Tuesday 23rd).

Beaded Cards

For Christmas one of the presents I received was a Beading Encyclopedia, from my Uncle and Aunt. It is full of amazing things on how to use jigs and looms, how to design earrings and necklaces, which wires are best to use, different project ideas and much more.

One of the projects that particularly took my interest was beading on to cardboard or material to use as notebook covers. I gave it a shot, using cardboard. When I was finished I had the idea of making it into a card, instead of a book cover. As it turned out, it didn't seem to be such a bad idea, so I then tried other designs out of my head. Below are the results.

The dark blue one, second from right, was the first one I tried with the pattern out of the book. The design of the brown one I stole from another card I had seen, and the pink, blue and yellow are of my own thinking.

You can see the cards alot better if you click on the photo to enlarge.

Crazy Earrings

A little while ago we had some friends stay, and one of their girls wore a pair of earrings that was made of assorted beads in various colours. Jess suggested I give it a shot with the beads I have and... today I did it!
They are hoops, with blue, pink, white, green, orange and yellow beads that come in various shapes and sizes. Jess and Beka have already offered to pay me more than the usual price for them. I think I might end up making more than just a few pairs!

Beading Up-dates

I just thought I would show all of my readers some of the beading creations I came up with a few weeks ago...


Mauve balls.


Deep red balls.


Red leaves.


Heart hoops.


And a bunch of bracelets, hair-pins and earrings.

New Hobbies...

Recently I have started a new hobby; beading earrings. It is so simple that you don't need a pattern, even though you can do teared and other types.

So, I have done around five pairs of which Jess bought two :) And the next local markets I shall try to sell more.

Here are photos of a few of my creations.