Blast like a Supernova

It has been a while. With no time to post, no time to take a photo shoot or do some decent beading or at least it was taking a slow pace.
With my girl growing each day less time for beading is left for me, but still I try to find some time for my favorite hobby.

So, new year has come (Happy new one - for those who read), all the celebrations have come to past and some new inspirations came.

First, but not last - that successfully helped me to use my bead stash and some of the pieces that were gathering dust....

Necklace - Supernova - with solar quartz cabochon druzy titanium agate, Czech glass and seed beads, (new to me) memory wire and finished with magnetic clasp for a bigger security :)

Zoe Designs Vintage: Curated Treasury: "Brave: the Bend in the River"

Lovely Etsy treasury by Zoe Designs Vintage was also posted in a lovely blog. Just could not keep myself from re-blogging it and sharing.

Thanks a lot for including my work into such lovely collection.



Zoe Designs Vintage: Curated Treasury: "Brave: the Bend in the River": Our featured Etsy treasuryfor today is curated by Yvette Pederson, from the Etsy shop YForYou , located in Sitka, AK. Yvette is the owner, m...

January sale

all January - special promotional sale - 25% on all items. Just visit my Etsy store and use coupon - JAN15SALE to claim your discount. 
https://www.etsy.com/shop/CraftNicheDili

Amber Heart

Long time no seen.
It has been quite a while since I have created something new and shared it with my readers.
It seems that I have experienced the lack of inspiration and needed to take a short brake from the beads. It is not that I have not been working with them - no, I just had to little time and mostly been working on the schemes..

But after a while inspiration came :) - just some new materials and some new techniques gave me the challenge and inspired new creation.

Amber heart

Amber heart - when the days grow short and cold the Amber heart keeps always warm. It brings the small part of the sun and reminds of the summer.

On Etsy : https://www.etsy.com/listing/208944948/beaded-necklace-amber-heart?


Techniques: mixed techniques of bead embroidery, bead weaving.

Materials used: agate, true and natural Baltic amber beads, Czech glass beads, Preciosa seed and twin beads, copper clasp and natural leather backing.

Dyzajn Market Prague - small debut with my works

It has been a while (as always) as not so much time is left for my works... Not that I have been lazy, just having a small child at home leaves less time to do certain things - beading especially :)

During last moth had many family occasions and had made my preparations for my debut at Prague's Dyzajn Market (1-2 August, 2014).
Lots of things had to be cataloged, priced and put into certain places. Some new creations were done (a bit later I will try to post them too) and here we go -

Scarab flight

I've been busy, I've been lazy and I had so few time to do things that I love.
My precious little bug is taking all the time that I have and not much time left for the crafts although I cannot say, that I have been lazy... just the work goes slowly and not mentioning the photo shoots :)

Well, I have sold two pieces recently, my soutache brooch "Tenderness" went to USA, one small necklace went to the lady in Prague (this one I even did not get the chance to take photo... )

And a few other new pieces were made - one of them necklace Scarab Flight

This time I have used - hand made polymer clay cabochon that I have made myself (it just has been waiting for its time), glass bicones, Czech rokajl and preciosa beads, natural leather backing and magnetic clasp.

Techniques: bead embroidery and bead weaving.

A bit of Victorian style

It has been quite a while. Not that I haven't been working - but I suppose too many changes at a time and too less of time for my favorite beading.
I've been creating a few things that took me to some sort of experimentation - silk and metallic ribbon. These two went into two different creations that share the same color palette, details and, well ... name.

Victorian Rose necklace - Size of the bead embroidered resin cabochon - 7 x 5.5 cm. Length of the silk and beads cord ~ 50 cm.

Materials used - resin cabochon, Czech man made pearls, Czech glass drops, Preciosa twin beads, toho and Preciosa seed beads, silk, natural leather backing, magnetic clasp.

Victorian bracelet - Length of the bead embroidered bracelet - 18 cm, width - 7 cm.

Materials used - resin cabochon, Czech man made pearls, Preciosa twin beads, toho and Preciosa seed beads, metallic ribbon, natural leather backing, wide magnetic clasp.