tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31940851987211715792012-02-16T23:39:52.092+01:00A blog mostly about my own made jewelry, and also things that inspire me in general and specificly in relatation to jewelry. Favourite finds, great music, beautiful things, inspiring people and places and so on. Every now and then I will post a short video with a Swedish lesson. You can suggest words or phrases you would like to learn.Malin de Koninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08479961009540756244noreply@blogger.comBlogger2781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3194085198721171579.post-56260903678883221502012-02-13T20:46:00.005+01:002012-02-13T21:58:26.064+01:00

I thought I'd share with you just a few random art pieces that I really like. And I assume that since I like them I am also inspired and influenced by them in my own work. In one way or another. I think I might come back to posting more art in the future. These happen to all be paintings. But I might as well post sculpture. Or architecture. Or illustration. Graphic design. Industrial design. And

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Another multi strand bracelet. I call it Rodgersia, because I feel like I am walking around in the shadowy region of a lush garden. Unfortunately I don't have such a one in my own garden, but I wish I would. I would definitely have a few of these plants. And other versions of Rodgersia with their huge leaves. And do you see the little primula at the bottom. So cute.Materials:Stamped resin bead by

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I haven't got any new jewelry pieces to show you at the moment. But I do have a bunch of yummie things in my stash that are just waiting to be used. Some bought very recently, some have been waiting for a bit longer. In my current situation (I'm going through a bit of a rough period with my health) at least I can dream and fantasize about what I could do with them. Don't you also just love to

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I am back home from the hospital again! YAY! It feels so great! It's funny how fantastic it feels to be in your own house and environment, with your own family and animal beings around you. Your own furniture, your own cups of tea, the sounds, the smells and the textures. Everything familiar and homely just the way you like it and are used to. The last few days has been like a roller coaster for

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Some of you might know that I am in hospital since Thursday. I've been treated for a MS relapse with Cortison-Steroids. It is not a serious or bad relapse, I have not lost any major functions like my ability to walk or so, but still it needed treatment. The treatment itself can make you feel bad, and yesterday was not a good day for me, and I was very down and low. I wasn't prepared that I would

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Check out CrescendoArt Saves today. Barbara Lewis of Painting With Fire is their guest curator for the whole week. Today she is linking to me and how you do when you tell your spouse off ;-) . Barbara has a wicked sense of humor ... And I love her for it.Check out her whole week at Art Saves and her own blog too.Hurry, go now!!!!NOW!!!:-)

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I got the little ceramic birdie charm made by Jangles from LimaBeads just the other week. It inspired me to make this bracelet. I have honestly never before made a multi-stranded design like this ending it up with cones. It caused me problems at first, because I didn't know how to cleverly go about it. At times like that I find it fantastic with all the different online tutorial recourses we so

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Ring made in square stitch.The bracelet is made in two drop peyote.The symbol of the mod 'movement' from the sixties, concentric circles in red white and blue. A super nice watch from Lambretta. My friend Kata has one. The Jam played around with the symbol as they were associated with the music style even though they were around later. Album and song All Mod Cons title also referring to a typical

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Macrame with blue-grey waxed cotton cord and selection of glass and semiprecious stones in different colors. I made this one with a particular friend in mind. She can't wear any metal at all against her skin. I hope she will like it.Macrame with orange waxed linen cord and a selection of glass, semi-precious stones, brass beads and three white ceramic beads by Gaea.Here's a better photograph of

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Last week I bought a gorgeous Sea Fossil focal bead in ceramic from Birgitta Lejonklou. And I got some extra goodies with the parcel. Thank you so much Birgitta! One of the goodies was the button which I immediately wanted to use in a bracelet. So yesterday I pulled together a soup of beads, which you can see the remains of in the box. Today I had literally just finished off the bracelet only

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Oh, I can't help it. How I love to make this kind of jewelry! It's fun fun fun. Like painting on a huuuge canvas (like I used to love to do when I was younger and not effected by MS). An expressionistic wild mix of bead types, seemingly randomly distributed, but no ... there is a slight pattern there ... Not long ago I couldn't dream of using un-oxidized copper. Now I think it is awesome. Isn't

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I don't often show this kind of work here. But now it's time. :-)A wide cuff bracelet made in two drop peyote and 10/0 delicas. In order to avoid the clasp to possibly scratch against the skin on your wrist, I sewed the clasp on the outside and covered the attachment rings with pearls. That created a nice effect I think.Two finger rings in peyote and 11/0 seed beads. I like to do these little

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Hi, I hope your Christmas has been wonderful and jolly. Mine has been very nice, spent with my family and closest relatives, rather calm, but unfortunately without any snow. :-( It is not unusual I make jewelry pieces, but for some reason I don't get around taking their picture and show them here. So now I have a fair little bunch of things I thought I would portion out to you over the coming

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Yesterday Rebecca Anderson gave us a tutorial on Art Bead Scene. For a bangle bracelet including art beads and using the Vintaj hoop as a base. I have since a while admired this design of Rebeccas, AND I have played around a few times trying to create something useful with the hoops I have in my own stash. I never was pleased enough however, always took apart what I made.So yesterday I thought, I

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A new post of mine was published today on the Grateful Living blog.If you arrived here from the Grateful Living post, this link will take you to the page with my funny links. Or you can find it under the tab above called It's Funny.Hope you enjoy!

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On the 13th of December every year we celebrate Lucia here in Sweden. It is a celebration filled with emotional tradition. I myself always get tears in my eyes when I see the procession and hear the songs. It is so beautiful and special. It really puts me in the pre-spirit of Christmas. The film above is filmed at my children's school yesterday morning. It was my daughter's year's turn to do the

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Polymer clay button used for closure by Barbara Bechtel of Floridty.Various glass beads.Copper mini rounds.Strung on waxed linen cord.Color Drenched chain by MissFickleMedia.Toggle clasp by Higher Chakra formerly. Now her shop is called MetalFuze.Stones knotted on waxed linen string. I don't remember the name of the stones right now. And I don't have access to my shopping records, because my own

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You should see my face right now. I look just stupid happy. Like a big child I can't hold back. I need to share with you and the world.Some time ago I was contacted by Joanne Tinley of DaisyChainDesigns. She is a regular contributor to Beads & Beyond magazine of United Kingdom. Would I be interested in having my blog featured in the magazine? Well, what do you think I answered ...I loooove what

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I tend to turn to music when I don't know how to express my feelings. A song just pops up in my head. And just now this one did. I haven't listened to it for ages. And even longer ago since I saw the video. Boost! Lot's of love to you all!

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Polymer Clay branch disk bead by Heather Powers, HumbleBeads, the Bead of the Month Club.Teal round gemstones, I don't know what they are, maybe some kind of agate. A part of a wonderful surprise gift that arrived last week, from Jenny of Shyme Design . Thank you so much Jenny!Caribbean Sea aqua blue facetted glass roundels, also from Jenny.Big white potato pearls, possibly they were a gift from

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ABS Monthly Challenge for November. Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni, by Marie Spartali Stillman. A painting in the style of the British Pre-Raphaelite movement, which in turn was inspired by the Rennaissance and also the Post-Rennaissance movement called Mannierism. The Pre-Raphaelites were around in the second half of the 19th century. Spartali Stillman was considered the greatest female artist

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A few new pieces. All earrings. Please, I wish to get your opinion on this picture of me. Is it a good one to use as a photo of me when I am submitting to for instance a magazine? I assume it will most often be printed much smaller than what you see it here in any case. Like a thumbnail. I'm wearing a Marsha Neal Scarf and the newly made earrings you see above here. With MissFickleMedia petals.Oh

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Hi, Today you can read my first contribution post on the blog Grateful Living. Hurry there now. I am so eager to hear what you think. Please leave comments. All my best,MalinP.S. You should also become followers of this amazing blog. There are so many fantastic contributors and many good and thought-breaking (can you say that?) posts. Different people three or four times a week. Very worth it.

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Oh, lovely gems. Most of them from StarEyes a great Swedish online bead shop. I am dreaming away, and may soon very likely place an order. I first just wanna hear what Heidi Post thinks about an offer I've gave her. (Hi there Heidi! This post is mainly for you :-)) She has posted on her blog about some super nice gems she recently aquired. Check it out her post here.Hydro Grossular Garnet 8mm -

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Heather Powers is starting up a new blog, Everyday Earrings. Read more about it on Art Bead Scene. So, as I've applied to be one of the designers/writers. Hence I realized I wanna show a few more earrings of mine here. Ones that are previously either not showed or needed better photography. In any case, if I will be accepted or not, I am really looking forward to this new blog. Earrings are great

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I just love Prehnite. It's one of my favourite semi-precious stones.All my best,Malin

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Hi,Like most of you (I assume) I at times surf around quite a bit looking for beautiful and/or inspiring jewelry pieces. On my computer I have a folder with pictures of things that I get inspired by. It is often only a detail that interests me. Like a color combo, or a nicely laid out color scheme, how materials meet each other, an interesting assembly method, or a connection between two parts

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I was lucky to get my hands on one of these beautiful kits from LimaBeads. Fantasticly put together by Lorelei Eurto and Shannon Iko Chomanczuk. Thank you so much! Shannon and Lorelei's idea was that we simply create something with the beads. We could use them whichever way we wanted, adding our own beads, focals and so on. I have made three pieces, two necklaces and one bracelet.Starting with

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A new blog was born, on the 1st of October. It's called Grateful Living. All initiated by the fantastic Molly Alexander. This is some of what she says about it:"For a while now I have been wanting to create a forum for people to express thanksgiving for the blessings in their lives. To show that there are so many things to be thankful for; big and small, they are there, and all we need to do is

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Hi,I just thought I should inform you all that I am feeling well and good. I have not been posting here on my blog for a good while now, in fact for two whole weeks. That is a long break for me. The reason is that I simply have been very busy with a lot of stuff, AND that I have not felt I have anything really to write about or share with you here. I could always do a "wishful" post of course,

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Hi,Welcome to the reveal of what I did with the soup I got from my party partner Susie Hibdon of VintageSusieAndWings. Check it out, isn't it just perfectly awesome! Very exciting. I love it! Read more about it here.If you know me from before, you might be thinking this is a way more color-less collection of beads and findings than I normally work with. Yes, that is very true. So I decided that

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So, what do you do when you have used up your whole shopping budget for the month AND borrowed from next month's one? Because I just HAD to buy one of Lorelei and Shannon's beatiful Lima kits. I am so happy I managed to get my hands on one of them. (I saw they have already sold out.) You dream away, don't you. At least that's what I do. I dream and wish I could get all of the things in the

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Hey, do you know Rebecca Anderson? She is a lovely Scottish lady living in England. She sings, makes beautiful jewelry, and she has a blog that goes by the name of SongBeads. She is a regular contributor of the Beads & Beyond Magazine. AND now she has started a new series on her blog. She calls it "Introducing". Last week she did an interview with wonderful Heidi Post. This week it is ME! I am

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Seems like everyone thought I would send a color fiest to Susie Hibdon, for the Bead Soup Blog Party #4. And you were all completely right actually! That is exactly what I had planned. :-)However, as I started to roam around my stash this is what I came up with. There IS a little color there, but a bit more subtle than I had first thought. I like the round/circular theme which goes through quite

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Vaseline Beads and Cornerless Cubes from the BeadChest. I won a voucher to be used in their shop over at Claire Maunsell's blog some months ago. (The Next Bend/StillPointWorks). I have not been able to choose which beads in their shop to go for until now. There are a lot of lovelies there I tell you. I am happy with my pick. A pair of Tronex Round nose pliers. I am planning to update my tools

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I think Lorelei herself best describe this challenge and what it is about: "Last month, I held a contest for participants to recieve one of these beautiful enameled Shadow boxes from C Koop Beads. I picked 23 participants randomly, and send each of them one of the boxes. The challenge was to create something with the shadow box and reveal it on their blogs today! A big hug and THANK YOU to Sara

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Can you believe these are glass? They look so gorgeous. Rustic and precious at the same time. By OutWest. And what do you know, lucky me purchased them yesterday :-) I think a necklace with HumbleBeads beautiful pendant and an antiqued copper chain. And to go with that, a pair of earrings. What do YOU think? Tomorrow will be the reveal/blog hop for the Shadow Box Challenge arranged by Lorelei

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I didn't mean for this vlog to become this long. But as you will be watching it you will understand it was really not within my power ... And a couple more pictures of my bead table today: All my best,Malin

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Look what you can win! Read more at Genea's blog. May the best woman win. And that means me of course ;-)

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What a coooooooool soup I got from Susie Hibdon of Vintage Susie & Wings, my partner in the 4th Bead Soup Blog Party or BSBP 4 as I like to call it! For me also very much fun. I do not have anything looking like this in my own stash. It's all just perfectly different and pretty to challenge me in a very pleasing way. I am very excited to get started using all these gooodies. The number tags are

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Ok, so I can't show you my table at the moment. I have like one hundred projects going on at the same time. That's how it feels anyway. Some of them are secret ones also ... Isn't that exciting ... I've never been in a position when I could say that before ... BUT, the main reason for not showing you my table is that it is soooo messy. So how clever was I to purchase a tutorial yesterday for a

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Bead Soup Blog Party #4. My partner is Susie Hibdon of VintageSusieAndWings. Hope she will like what I send her. All I can tell at this point is that there is no gold included. My parcel will go out tomorrow. Wishing it a safe journey.

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These goodies all arrived in my mailbox during last week. Stoneware Flower bead caps - Chelle V2 Baloon and Swan pendants - Jade Scott Ceramic links and beads in custum ordered colors - Clay Buttons

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Ooooohhhhh! Look! Another interview with me. This time on Art Bead Scene! I'm excited to say the least. Very honoured indeed. Thank you sooooo much Erin!Art Bead Scene Blog: Meet the Designer :: Malin de KoningArt Bead Scene has been an inspirational place for me ever since I first discovered them in early 2010. A leading star! I don't remember how I even came across them. Probably from searching

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"Props and Partner", sounds like a cool name for a Hollywood based business. Doesn't it?! Anyway, first let's talk about props. I am not much for using them in my own photography of my jewelry. It is not that I dislike them in general. On the contrary I really like when others use them. But for my own things I often appreciate just the piece on it's own being nicely placed on a surface. And then

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"Life goes on, yeah". A lot is going on right now. It's an intense period for me in many different areas. So, I thought I'd share some stuff with you. Very diverse things in this post.1.I am going through a period when I come up with new ideas and designs easily. I feel very inspired artistically. I play around a lot, and see what happens. A lot of the things I come up with I don't end up using.

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Since I spend so much time roaming around on the online bead shops from all over the world, but not always come to an actual purchase I have a huuuuuuuuuge wish list. Sometimes it is just random chance that makes me end up buying something or not. Anyway, I thought I'd share a few of my latest wishes. It's not likely I will get them in the nearest month or so. So maybe you also take a fancy, and

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This time it's Heather Powers of HumbleBeads. Head over to her blog to find out more. The beads in this collection are pretty awesome. Wish I will be the lucky winner. Or you!

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Hey, I did pearl knotting on silk cord today! For the first time. I followed this great tutorial from BeadAholique. Used the tweezers I ordered last week, which apparently are necessary. And I followed the advice from Erin Siegel to choose a silk cord size the largest possible to go through the holes of the beads. Thank you again Erin! And I went for my son Conrad's suggestion for the color on

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The C-Koop bezel from Lorelei Eurto's Shadow Box Challenge arrived yesterday. I was so lucky to be one of the winners to get one of them.Mine has such a wonderful color. I bet all of them do. A photo really can't do it justice. I am really excited, and have "one million" ideas. I don't know yet if any of them will be possible to make come true though ... I can only hope so far ... and which one

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These are a few of the items in the newest design by Tari Sasser of Creative Impressions in Clay or Clay Buttons. I am in loooove! And have just now ordered two links/connectors and two round beads (had some money on my PayPal account from a sold item luckily enough, great secret stash for moments like this). Different color combos of my own choice on all of them.Tari is this months Art Bead

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It's an unique feast with participants from all around the world. You are sure to make lots of new friends (all bead nerds like yourself). And to find out about things you did not already know of. You will get tons and tons of inspiration. It is basically an absolutely fantastic party! So who could resist to join it? Not me!Read more at the blog of our amazing hostess Lori Anderson. The name of

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Thank you so much Erin and Lorelei for wanting to feature me on your blog A Jewelry Accord. I am truly honoured. And I am also excited like a little child. I wanna shout out to everyone: "See, see! They want to tell about me. ME!"(Please go to their blog to read the article, this picture below is just a way for me to show off a bit :-))Erin Siegel and Lorelei Eurto are the runners of the blog A

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... especially on a day like this. What else could you wish for? Sitting on your veranda on a lovely summers day making jewelry.This is my Bead Table Wednesday for today.Bracelet for my dear friend Caroline.This is what I, at times, dream other designer's would do. So I thought I'd better give it a go myself. Hope I am starting a trend now. :-)More macrame bracelets.All my best!

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... that I didn't already know. I have loved this song ever since it was released by The Jam on the album All Mod Cons in 1978. But guess what! It actually is a Kinks song originally. What do you know! Anyway, enjoy!I think I will have to listen to the whole album now. Loud! Or I'll wait until tomorrow, when no one else is here. :-)

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Earrings - Roses Garden. Flowery tin bead caps by Lorelei Eurto on Tin Snippets. Rose quartz facetted round beads. Paddle head pins in copper by SpunSugarBeads. Oxidized copper ear hooks by HigherChakra (sorry, I can't link to her shop on Etsy at the moment).Earrings - Rothko's Gone Circular. Stoneware clay charms by Kristie Roeder of ArtisanClay. Oxidized Sterling Silver almond shaped ear hooks

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I can not enough underscore the importance of Art Bead Scene for my creative journey in jewelry making. So when I am featured on their blog I am always exceptionally proud and happy. And now it has happened again! Yihaaaaaa! Go and check Erin's post and wrap up list that will take you on a very inspiring blog tour indeed, with a good bunch of participants for the challenge for June. I am honored

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Hey! You do like beads, don't you!?! You like art beads extra much? Well, what are you waiting for? Andrew (who obviously has gone just a little bit crazy this time) is having a give-away at his blog. I've already done what is asked for. I do hope I will win. I would be crazy happy.The goodie bag includes items from: Green Girl Studios, Diane Hawkey, Pam Wynn and Heather Wynn-Millican, Susan

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Summer has arrived with unusually warm temperatures here in Sweden. It's lovely, and all I wanna wear is clothes that keep me cool. Like white cotton or linen clothes. Long skirts and loose sitting tops. Sandals on my feet and a sunhat on my head. So I think some casual macrame bracelets to go with that outfit are needed. I've made two over the last couple of days. I love the casual feel of this

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Lana is hosting a huge give-away with lots of awesome things. Head over to her blog to find out more.

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1. Clear Czech glass buttons, antique vintage, 18mm - Oridotan2. Vintage plastic buttons - Oridotan3. Handbuilt Porcelain Bead Set - PorcelainJazz4. Gears Connector donated by Joan Miller Porcelain - BeadsOfClay5. Extra Large antique red kimono silk focal - Moogin6. Glass Hoop Focal Bead - BlueKarmaBeads1. Large Bronze Starburst Focal, Connector or Clasp - DreamSome2. Silver Flat Oval Bead Hill

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My contribution for the June Challenge at Art Bead Scene became a necklace. It has undergone a few transformations on it's journey to the final piece. Started off as a bracelet with Gaea's green button as the clasp and center piece. 7 strands of waxed linen cord strung with Delica beads size 11/0. But I couldn't make the clasp solution look good. Gave up after trying about 10 different ways.

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Welcome to a session of goose pimples! (Sorry I miss-spelled before, so it became another word. I've meant PIMPLES all along, nothing else!)Shall we compare them? The goose pimples I mean!I've moved all my previous "Song of Today" to a separate page, which you will find the link to in the new tab bar just below the header of the blog. Every time I add a new song I will do it as a post. Then I

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A beautiful painting/pastel by Odilon Redon is this month's inspiration art piece on ArtBeadScene. It creates a huge lust to create jewelry in me. Yellow-yellow-yellow. And some gray and white and black and sharp blue, and .... I also drifted away in my thoughts about this artist. I had never seen this piece before. When I think of him I think mainly of mystical (obscure) surrealistic (before the

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A necklace in development.Will hopefully match:Earrings - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life. Fantastic glass lampwork discs by GardanneBeads. Their hue and color shiftings are very difficult to capture in a photograph. They are golden, honey, lime, amber, and hints of other colors too. I suspect some kind of partial AB also, but only very subtle. Wrapped with oxidized copper wire and combined with

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My daughter Arabella, 7 1/2 , has booked Sunday with me for learning how to make a round beaded bead. But guess what. I don't know how to make them. I have been searching around for free tutorials. I have yet not found any. You see, I don't want it to be one where you cover a bead. I haven't even found one I would have to pay for. Well, one I was tipped about by Patricia. Thank you so much! But I

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Thank you so much Jennifer! This feels really great. I had a few days of feeling great doubt about myself and my abilities. For no particular reason really, just coz I do sometimes. I mean I question myself! Not feeling like I do enough, do interesting enough, develop, amaze, inspire and so on. I bet you all know what I am talking about. I've been given great support from dear friends and the

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Just the color I am in love with right now. Acidic yellow-green! I wanna win them. If you do too, you should head over to Barbara Lewis's blog Painting With Fire and do what she asks you to. Good luck!

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My contribution for Art Bead Scene's May challenge is a bracelet. I named it "Hide and Seek", just like the painting by Berthe Morisot. Read about the piece and the challenge here.I just completely fell for the color scheme of strong green, very light grey and touches of ochre in this painting. Or at least those where the colors that stood out to me as the ones I wanted to work with. A somewhat

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If you haven't been there yet, you have to hurry over to Art Bead Scene and the most amazing giveaway with a chance to win L O A D S and L O A D S of gorgeous Art Beads. The picture above only shows a few ...

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Necklace is finished!Name: Let The Light InMaterials:Handmade custom made focal by Erin Prais-Hintz of Tesori TrovatiPearlsYellow milky Amber nuggetsCitrine irregular coinsRaw Baltic Sea Amber nuggetPrasiolit irregular mini coinsCzech glass beadsChain

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Oh how I long for you all!I've gone too far this month, I know.And this one was missed out from the above collage. A custom one that has been made in my own ring size! By Maire Dodd.

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Can you believe it? I DID win them! Aren't I the luckiest. Come come come to me now my little darlings! My my my, the yummies you will have a chance to win if you head on over to Gardanne's blog. I certainly wish it will be me!!!

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Re-posting the pictures from my latest post that got lost in the recent blogger-trouble.Gorgeous focal by Erin Prais-Hintz, alias Treasures Found, alias Tesori Trovati.Idea for bracelet for ABS's May challenge. Porcelain Rings by RoundRabbit.Enameled green beads by PaintingWithFire.

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A new amazing give away collaboration at Lorelei Eurto's blog. This time it is Kylie Parry who has donated these totally super adorable charms.Hurry over to Lorelei's blog now if you want to have a chance to win, it's only on for 24 hours.For your information I myself really really want to win them! But did you even doubt that? I bow myself at Kylie's talent and skill.

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Heather Powers just listed the umbrella pendant in her husband's Etsy shop Jess Contreras. The pendant is a collaboration between her and Jess. I saw it 3 min after she had posted on Facebook about it. OMG! What do you do when you fall in love? as Dionne Warwick sang. I saw it together with Gaea's wonderful cloud which I've been wanting to get for some time now.So there was no reason to hold back

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P.S.Now it's done!... changing my lists of blogs I follow. Some people have made me aware of that my blog loads more slowly since I changed it to have all the blogs I follow in one list in my side bar. That is of course not good. And now I am changing that.I am trying to divide up the list, so I have one in my sidebar of the ones I am particularly fond of, and then a separate page with the

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Hi,I thought I would share with you this awesome way of making boxes yourself. I learnt it at a jewelry camp two years ago from a lady called Tua Holmberg. Thank you Tua! She also runs a webshop for beads and findings. Tuas Parlor. All in Swedish though.Tools needed:Scissors, a pencil, a ruler, a weatherstrip tool (if you don't have one, use something similar, hard but not sharp, like a buttering

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So while I've been off-line I have been busy with some different things. One of them being bowling ... he he. The result is three beaded mini bowls.Number one is made in circular square stitch technique.It all started when I saw this bowl below, made by Dustin Wedekind. Marcia DeCoster wrote about it in this post on her blog MadDesigns. I love that bowl. It is sooo attractive.So I just had to try

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Hi,I am so sorry! Over the last two weeks my internet connection has been down most of the time. I had a couple of days connected last week, but since then totally "dead". This is due to a badly handled move to another operator than before. It has effected also my mobile telephone, and I have been without that one for over two weeks constantly by today. So I have been basically disconnected from

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All my best, Malin

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So here is my reveal. I recieved 6 b e a u t i f u l buttons from Michelle Mach who so kindly offered to be my partner in the Button Swap.From top left and clockwise:A cowboy hat button in plastic, kind of an extra treat coz of Michelle living in a Western-themed area.Wavy lines pewter button by MamacitaBeadWorks on Etsy. YUM!!!!Gunmetal mosaic button (plastic), coming from a set of two. The

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Big sigh! It works again.I've been without an internet connection for 2 days now.And now I just read some comments on my last post where someone mentioned the Button Swap. OMG - I thought it was on the 29th we were supposed to blog about them. I'll try to wisk something together quickly to present my things. Please please excuse me. I DO have one bracelet ready, and one half ready. But no

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Butterfly pendant and two small disk beads by HumbleBeads.Lilac chain, purple copper ring and purple colored copper wire by MissFickleMedia (Shannon's shop is on a short vacation until the 18th, the link will take you to her blog instead).Glass beads and facetted bone bead.There is no clasp since it is long enough to go over the head.Arabella is modelling for me with the necklace arranged to

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I saw these spectacular earrings by Emma of FredBean's Nook the other day. I fell in love with the design. I just love love love it. Had to give it a try myself. I did figure out to start with a ladder stitch ring in the center to surround the bead.The next steps I will give a try in the coming days. I feel very uncertain about how I will do it. I think I know how. But I just think it is gonna

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They are giving away Industrial Chic components and the booklet. I want to win!Barbe Saint John - New Treasures from Forgotten Artifacts: All about Industrial Chic and a giveaway!!!!

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Look! What a generous give-away arranged by Lorelei Eurto with pendants donated by Jade Scott. ! I loooove Jade Scott's things. Just look at them. I so much wanna win them!Lorelei's Blog: 24 hour giveaway: "That's right, you have exactly 24 hours from now, 8:14am Wednesday, to leave a comment on this post to win these four lovely handcrafted bez..."

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Hand painted wood bead from Alicias BeadRound faceted Prehnite from BeadFrenZPeruvian Opal from Norah62

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Oh the feedback I got from my last post. Absolutely fantastic! So many good ideas there, and ways of thinking, and angles and ... I got more than I ever could have imagined. There are things there I have never thought of. You are simply the best! Now I need a few days to think through it all, and come up with my plan. More likely I need a week or so. Well, I think I already know the basic

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Hello dear friends!I have this issue I want to come to a decision with. But first I feel I need to analyze it from all possible viewpoints to be able to make that decision on how I shall continue from here?The images in this post are of Arabella, my daughter. 4 at the time, now 7 1/2. She is wearing a tiara I made. I call it "Punk Princess". And you know she is shouting out "It's Party Time!" on

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Made this ring yesterday. I named it "Going To the Art Gallery". It's the opening day, and you walk around there looking at paintings whilst sipping on your white wine. Of course you need a large ring, a boho chic looking one. Black ceramic disk by RoundRabbit, green ceramic disk, dark ceramic round by Gaea, brass wire, black fiber/yarn.I was inspired by the works of Maire Dodd and Amanda Davie.

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I was featured with my necklace and a picture of it, on Art Bead Scene, in this post summarizing about the March Monthly challenge.This is what Erin Prais-Hintz of Tesori Trovati, one of the writers on the ABS blog, wrote:"Miss Malin over in Sweden is conjuring up the summer sun with her beautiful necklace. It just so happens that she had a beaded ring lying around the suiting this just fine as a

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Ok, so this is the latest version.And how do we feel about it?Don't know yet how I feel about it. I am not fully convinced.I need to digest it for a few days.

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So I have sort of settled for this new look on my blog. And I would be ever so grateful for some feedback. I am all for usabilty and for a style that mirrors my identity. It shall be pleasant and easy to look around on my blog. It shall be easy to find different features and gadgets. It shall be easy to identify links.So what do you think about:The head/banner - the image and how it is cropped

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I am playing around with the settings for the layout of my blog. It will look NOT nice, and probably somewhat strange until I am done. It will also make changes frequently as I am trying to learn, and I just try all the different things that I can alter myself to see what happens. Bare with me for one or two days.:-)Testing adding image and it's settings here:I am playing around with the settings

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I was so lucky to just in time discover the ButtonSwap arranged by Michelle Mach. We shall send three buttons to our partner. Identical, similar, related or completely unrelated. At least one button should be somehow special. Handmade, vintage, sentimental or otherwise unique. Make at least one project with at least one of the buttons. It doesn't have to be jewelry. Reveal day including a blog

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Art Bead Scene's inspiration piece for the March challenge is a colourful painting by Paul Gaugain, which he painted on Tahiti where he lived for many years. It is the colours that really struck me with this piece. They are so bright and ... well ... yes colourful. Everything in the picture is just bathing in strong sunlight. There is a calm and relaxing atmosphere also which I wanted to

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