Angaza by Changes: mei 2013

vrijdag 31 mei 2013


The Jewellery Maker by Gyula Tornai. Source Wikimedia.

✿❀ Thank you so much Leah, for organizing this great Blog Hop!!! ✿❀

I've always been interested in history, and Celts were a part of that... Thinking of Celts,
I have a picture in my mind of hard working people, strong women,
sturdy warriors, bronze, symbols, beautiful jewellery and lovely patterns.
Two of my favourites are spirals and knots.

Click on the picture to enlarge

I decided to design a bracelet and a pair of earrings for this hop...

I made 5 glass beads with Celtic inspired designs and added a lot of bronze :-) coloured charms.
The little spirals are inked. The earrings I made with the Big Kick machine and deco etched
bronze blanks, I added a knot charm for the finishing touch, it's all inked too...
It was great fun, working on this jewellery!

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Enjoy the work of all the other participants :-) here's the list!

Leah Curtis - Indus Valley - beadyeyedbunny.blogspot.co.uk

Laney Mead - Māori - laney-izzybeads.blogspot.co.uk

Becca - Art Nouveau - godsartistinresidence.blogspot.com

Melissa - English Romanticism and Mourning Jewelry - beadrecipes.wordpress.com

Tracy Stillman - Native American - tracystillmandesigns.com

Gerda - English Romanticism and Mourning Jewelry - gerdascraftsblog.blogspot.com

Liz E - Native North American - beadcontagion.blogspot.com

Ahowin - Māori (New Zealand) - blog.ahowinjewelry.com

Jasvanti - Indus Valley - jewelrybyjasvanti.blogspot.com

Lizzie - Art Nouveau - theneedtobead.blogspot.co.uk

Julia Hay - Merovingian - pandanimal.blogspot.co.uk

here you are - Dini Bruinsma - Celtic - angazabychanges.blogspot.nl

Caroline - Art Nouveau - blueberribeads.co.uk

Charlie - Moche of Peru - clay-space.com/blog

Karin - China - maverickbeads.blogspot.com

Niky Sayers - Rome - silverniknats.blogspot.com

Marcia Dunne - Celtic and Mourning Jewelry - thealternativefoundry.blogspot.co.uk

anafiassa - Mesopotamia - anafiassa.blogspot.com

Kokopelli - Native American - kokopellidesign.blogspot.com

Christa - Native American - adventuresofwonebeadywoman.blogspot.com

Clair - Roman - obstinatepursuit.blogspot.co.uk

Susan Bowie - Native American - susanbowie.wordpress.com

Gloria Allen - English Romanticism - gloriaallendesigns.blogspot.com

Sheila Garrett - Early Russia - 4brownowl.blogspot.co.uk

dinsdag 21 mei 2013

Kuala Lumpur

Another Blogger - Non Blogger Challenge!!!

hosted by me

♫ For the second time ♫, I'm the hostess of
the Blogger -Non Blogger Challenge in Facebook's Bead Soup Café...
That's always great fun!
Every hostess - winner of the last Challenge - chooses a picture that
will inspire all the participants,
It's so special to see everybody's (completely different) results.

Gloria Allen posted her jewellery impression of my picture in her Blog:

Gloria Allen Designs

Here's is Sam Waghorn's weblog
http://palemooncreation.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/new-day-new-challenge.html#links
with a story behind her jewellery

Shalini Austin also wrote a webblog
http://jewellery-by-shalini.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/my-kuala-lumpur-challenge-earrings.html#.UZ8XeJnCTIU

And Ana Cravidão's

http://acbeads.blogspot.pt/2013/05/desafio-challenge.html

Enjoy reading!

zaterdag 4 mei 2013

May 4 - Hats Off Challenge - the Reveal

There are a lot of Challenges going on, and I ♥love♥ love♥ love♥ it to participate...

What I see helps me to think outside my own -safe- box. What a Challenge this one is too!
Bobbie Rafferty is the big initiator, and let me thank her first for organizing it.
Today -May 4- is Kentucky Derby Day and our Reveal Day too.

We could pick a picture from her weblog to inspire us. Any piece of jewellery
is allowed to make. I choose to design a necklace in black & white.
I'm fond of black and white, okay, my own safe box :-) but... I really love that color
combination, for years!!! :-))))) So, here's the picture that inspired me