June 29th - My country, of Thee I bead!

What a great Challenge this one also is!  Thank you Nan Smith for this great idea
for the Blog Hop as well as for organizing it.  
Another one  in a row of Challenges, this summer@ Facebook.

 

The theme is ‘My Country of Thee I bead’. Well, my country is The Netherlands. 
What pictures you have in mind, when thinking of The Netherlands?  It’s a country 
with a lot of touristic attractions like famous museums with paintings of
Rembrandt &Van Gogh, the House of Anne Frank, tulips, daffodils,
windmills, canals, and delicious Gouda cheese.
And… our flat flat scenery! Could I bead of that? Yes, I could, but there
is more… In April we had the coronation of our new King, Willem-Alexander.
Finally a King, after having  a Queen as a head of our state for 107 years!
 

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At the coronation, his mom Princess Beatrix, his wife Queen Máxima, and

the 3 little princesses  were wearing lovely ‘Royal Blue’ dresses. I picked that

colour to make some glass tulips, here they are :-)

The orange facetted Agate beads I choose  because it’s the colour

of our House of Orange!

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Maybe you like to see a bit more of the coronation?

Watch this small movie (appr. 4 min). on Youtube:

 

I hope you like the necklace and the little in’s and out’s behind my story!


Have fun reading the blogs of the other participants!

http://wirednan.blogspot.ca/2013_06_01_archive.html
 

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