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!

✿❀ ✿❀  ✿❀

 

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 

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!

 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

 

 

 

 

and this is the necklace I designed:

"Baby it's just Black and White"!

 

 

 

Here's the complete list of all participants:

Arlene Dean www.aglassbash.blogspot.com
Bobbie Rafferty www.beadsong.blogspot.com
Charlie www.505indiechic.blogspot.com
Cheryl Dunham www.renaissance-jewelry.blogspot.com
Chris www.furzalsjewellry.blogspot.com
Christine Altmiller www.onekisscreations.blogspot.com
Cindy Wilson www.itsmyseaofdreams.blogspot.com
Cynthia Machata www.antiquitytravelers.blogspot.com
Deanna Riles-Cox https://www.facebook.com/deanna.rilescox
Debbie Rasmussen www.kepirasmussen.blogspot.com
Dini Bruinsma      http://angazabychanges.blogspot.nl
Jasvanti Patel www.jewelrybyjasvant.blogspot.com
Jean Yates www.prettykittydogmoonjewelry.blogspot.com
Jennifer LaVite www.drygulchbeadsandjewelry.blogspot.com/
Karin Slaton www.backstorybeads.blogspot.com
Kashmira www.sadafulee.blogspot.com
Laney Mead http://laney-izzybeads.blogspot.com/
Leah Tees www.mybeadylittleeyes.blogspot.ca
Liz E www.beadcontagion.blogspot.com
Lola www.beadlolabead.blogspot.com
Micheladas www.micheladasmusings.blogspot.com
Nan Smith www.wirednan.blogspot.com
Robin Reed www.willowdragon.blogspot.com
Sally Russick www.thestudiosublime.com
Shiraz www.secretsongdesigns.blogspot.com
Susan Nelson Bowie www.susanbowie.wordpress.com
Therese www.theresestreasures59.blogspot.com
Vera www.veradesigns.blogspot.com

 

 

Have fun with all the beautiful pieces and Robbie's inspiring pictures!

20 Steps and a Bracelet

 

Isn't it a lovely Blue- & Grey-combination, these 2 pictures?

2 Little doves on a distance of 4 mtrs. from the house. Sitting and 'kissing'
on the rail of our balcony
and...
a new bracelet in my Springtime Collection!
I hope you like it! 

 

 

 

www.angaza.nl

 

There are more "20 Steppers" to visit,
just click on their names, and enjoy their pic's:

Nicole Valentine
Mimi Roy
Shena Meadowcroft
Amy Waldman

Ken Miner

Terri Rodstrom
Marti Conrad

20 Steps Outside my Door

 

There is a lovely cherry tree just a few meters behind the house, in our backyard...
The temperature in The Netherlands, was far to low during a long long period.
But it's finally getting better :-) It's changing, it's time for springtime!!!

We had some sunshine during a few days, and look what happens to the tree.
I't starts blossoming. I love♥ the soft pink color of the little flowers so much,
I hope you like it too... So, enjoy and have a nice week,
with lots of colourful moments!

 

 

I'm a member of a group of Bloggers who will write every Monday about what happens
20 Steps outside their Doors... please follow the links below
to find more pretty pic's♥ and/or beautiful text!

Nicole Valentine
Mimi Roy 
Shena Meadowcroft
Amy Waldman

Ken Miner

Terri Rodstrom
 Marti Conrad

Color Combo Challenge

 

Week 124. 
All those beautiful Blues, I love them!
Here's my small contribution for this week...with homemade
beadcaps and glass beads.

 

A lake, snow on the mountains, a waterfall...

 

Participants of the 7th. Bead Soup Blog Party

 

Look what a wonderfull map Lori made on this rainy day in The Netherlands.
Here you find all the countries the 541 participants are coming from!
Just follow the link below this picture!

♥ all the participant's countries♥



Little raindrops on a rainy day in The Netherlands...

 

♥ Challenges - Uitdagingen ♥ 

 

Het is zo leuk...
In de wereld van het sieraden maken kun je je hart ophalen aan 'uitdagingen '
op Internet! Zit je soms een beetje vast met ontwerpen dan helpt dit enorm!

Het begint met Armband Luru op 23 februari.  Daarna volgt
de Bead Soup Blog Party, zie mijn vorige posting. Nu lopen er nog 3, Pretty in Pink,
het Color Combo Challenge Event en de Hats Off Challenge.
Heerlijk om je fantasie te kunnen laten gaan! En, de eerste 2  in voorjaarskleurtjes!
Wordt vervolgd...

 

Color Challenge group week 123.

 

 
Pretty in Pink - Blogger Non Blogger Challenge & Color Challenge Group week123.
 

 It's so much fun! There are lots of Challenges to be found on the Internet.
When you got stuck and /or  having a designers block :-) join a group! It all started
with bracelet Luru (posted on Februari 23) then cameThe Bead Soup Blog Party,
pictures posted in the blog before this one, and now I'm joining the CCC Event and the Blogger Non-Blogger Challenge, using Springtime Colours in the jewellery.
The Hats Off Challenge is the next one...
To be continued!



Bead Soup Blog Party Day 1!!!

Today is the First Reveal Day of the 7th Bead Soup Blog Party… with 2 more to come,
and more than 500 participants!!! Thank you Lori, for being such a wonderful hostess.
You deserve a big applause and flowers! Here they are...

 

 

The preparation of my bead soup started with the first email contact between
my sweet partner Birgitta Lejonklou (Sweden) and me. Birgitta designs and makes amazing ceramic jewellery with a special touch. A few days after our first contact,
the postman delivered 2 beautiful packages with some lovely ‘content’ at our home.
With completely new materials for me...

Look what she sent, I really love everything.

 

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

The thinking of designing and creating began, starting, take apart, restarting,
mixing and mingling and so on. Here are the results!

Click on the picture to enlarge :-)

 

 

 Birgitta’s  Flower cuff is the base for bracelet Brittsommar, Swedish for Indian Summer.
I  choose the name because of the colour scheme. A lot of  glass beads
(made by me) were added, and freshwater pearls, some other beads & stones,
Sari Silk and leather cord. A new way of creating!

 

 

Click on the picture to enlarge :-)

A beautiful swallow pendant and a little flower, chain and a clasp were
still on my beading table, my second challenge! Great for making a necklace,
with those lovely colours.

Click on the picture to enlarge :-)

 

A swallow is a bearer of good news for  many people, so the best name for this
necklace I guess will be Happynesss, written with an y and 3 sss's this time! 

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

This is the full list of the 1st reveal people:

http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.nl/

The appr. 500 participants are from all over the world, with 3 persons
from The Netherlands! 



Koud - kouder - koudst!

 

Wat is het koud in dit land, we hebben één van de langste koudeperiodes
in de maand maart sinds 1923! Het is daarom belangrijk de vogels een beetje te helpen
overleven... Gelijktijdig zijn er veel persoonlijke dingen waarvan ik van binnen warm word.
Eéntje daarvan is de BeadSoupBlog Party waaraan ik deel neem.
Ik zal een heel klein tipje van de sluier oplichten, 1 stuk heb ik nu af, kijk maar naar de foto
een teaser :-) Ik werk nog aan andere...

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have the longest period of cold in the month of March since 1923, can you imagine?
It's good to feed the birds a bit extra to help them surviving.
At the same time, some personal things in life warm my heart, the BeadSoupBlog Party
is one of them... I did finish one piece, look at the teaser picture!
More pieces to come!