4 more bracelets of June 2013

I am going through a very productive period when it comes to making jewelry. It seems the designs comes to me so easily, and with such pleasure and joy. I just love it, and it is fun fun fun all the time. Very satisfying. If anything holds me back it is a lack of time and mainly an ability to work undisturbed during the day. It is just one of those periods. And I AM frustrated about it.  But still, I find I am very much into the actual designing and making of the jewelry pieces, whereas the rest of it I find quite a bit less fun. I am talking about taking photos, blogging, listing on Etsy and such things. It's like once I have finished one piece all I want to do is to make a new other one. I really wish I could have an assistant that could take care of the rest of the work on my behalf. I constantly miss the deadline dates for submissions to various magazines. So hence I hardly take part in any such things since a little while back. I do wish to be more active in that field of course, but it is like it is at the moment. Anyway, today I show you 4 new bracelets that I made during June. Hope you enjoy! :-)

Bracelet - For the Love Of Daisies
Copper Daisy clasp - Joanne Tinley of DaisyChainExtra
Verdigris green patinated chain - Shannon LeVart of MissFickleMedia
Copper Leaf Chain
Orange-red large somewhat irregular seed beads
Orange waxed linen cording

Bracelet - Blue Lace

Ceramic focal in pale yellow and with a blue flower pattern - Nancy Schindler of RoundRabbit

Blue glass nuggets
Dark brown wooden ring

Brass toggle bar from Vintaj
Seed beads and brass findings
Blue waxed linen cording

Bracelet - Ivory and Purple disks
Copper swirly clasp with glass detail - Genea
Copper jump ring
Ivory and Purple glass disks
Purple waxed linen cording

Bracelet - A Heart Of Green
Brass Heart charm - Lesley Watt of Thea Too
Purple enameled Head Pin - Barbara Lewis of PaintingWith Fire
Verdigris green patinated Leaves Bead cap - Patina Queen
Ivory Glass Round
Brass Heishi ring bead
Matte Green Irregular large seed beads
Orange-red large somewhat irregular seed beads
Golden colored cocoanut heishi beads
Matte ivory white irregular glass
Memory wire

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All my jewelry pieces are available for purchasing, even though I might not yet have listed them in my Etsy Shop. Please let me know if you are interested in any of them. Contact me at: malindekoning[at]hotmail.com

All my best,

Malin

Featured - Barbara Lewis - Art Saves -

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!!!

:-)

Wake Up With The Feeling Of That Love Is All Around

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, but I just haven't gotten around to it.

So please hold on. I'll be back on my regular pace of posting, (which is about two or three times a week), within shortly.

I am producing jewelry things on a rather steady pace. However, I am currently in a state of seeking to discover new things, which means I try a lot of different and to me previously unknown stuff designwise and assemblywise. Most of my experiments turn out basically crap and not worth showing, but ... I gain knowledge anyway. And it is fun, and ... well ... necessary to me. You know the feeling when you NEED something new and fresh, coz everything you already know is too familiar and "seen it all before". Do you?

Check out the sort of fun and playful earrings I made the other day. I haven't got a clue if they really work, but they are the least crappy thing I've done lately, so I've decided to keep them. :-) I call them Wake Up With The Feeling Of That Love Is All Around.

The lovely quirky resin coin beads with print - Susan K. Nestor, also on Bead Trust

Purple enameled chain - Bead Trust

Purple enameled bead caps - Bumber Shoot Supplies

Enameled headpins - Barbara Lewis of Painting With Fire

Oh, and yes, I have cut my hair short. VERY short, that is! I will show you more soon.

Now, please, tell me! How do you go about when you feel you long for - need -change and new perspectives?

All my best,

Malin

Wow Give-Away by Barbara Lewis!

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!

Time for Tea-Party #1

Hey! Didn't I say I would have my Teaparties on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays? Yes I did, because they start with a T. Today is Friday, and to be honest I don't give a toss about that it starts with an F. Beacause I long for you and I want to hang out with you - now today! I will bake these Date & Lime Slices from the book shown in the picture above, so we will have something nice to nibble on while we are drinking our tea and chatting about stuff.

So this means it is Time for Tea-Party #1. The first one ever. The person I am inviting to hang out with today is a person who will continue to be a honorary guest on all my Tea-Parties from now on. Simply because she has made a big difference for me in the beading world. She kind of drew me in in the first place, not to beading itself, but to this whole international scene with bloggers, flickr-friends, BeadSoupParties and so on. Who am I talking about? It is the lovely and wonderful Barbara Lewis of PaintingWithFire. The Enamel Queen. The Portobello cup from Villeroy & Boch, the one furthest up to the left in the top picture in this post will be reserved for you Barbara. I hope you will like it. I have one myself, got it on my 18th birthday, but today it has a crack in it so I never use it for tea. It also appeared in the Woody Allen film Hannah and Her Sisters.

Anyway, it all started back in January. Somehow (I can't remember how) I found out about this giveaway of some gorgeaus hand-enameled beads someone had on their blog. It was Barbara Lewis. I had never participated in anything like that before. I had to write a comment on her post, and also make a post about the give-away on my own blog. And oddly enough, only about three weeks before my husband had suggested to me to start blogging as a way of telling about my beading and jewellery. And he had helped me set up a blog for me (so easy really, but I needed a kick in my butt just to get it done). So I had my blog and could put a post there about Barbaras give-away. My first one ever actually! I also left a comment on Barbara's blog. I wrote:

"Hi,
If I would be one of the lucky ones, your absolutely wonderful beads will go on a journey all the way to Sweden. And they will end up being part of some great looking jewellery sitting on some supercool person walking the streets of Stockholm ...

I am a follower of you and I have posted on my own blog.

I so much hope to win."

I wrote that because that is how I think about beads. Like they have some kind of life, and go through different things in their life. All beads are kind of their own individuals with their own experiences. That's how I am. Barbara thought I was a funny one speaking about myself as the super-cool person (I didn't mean myself, but just any of my friends or their friends) and wrote back to me on my private mail, and from there it just went on. It just felt immediately like we would be great friends, with the same kind of little silly and quirky sense of humour.

You have always been very supportive, and I sometimes feel not worthy. But I must say it means a so much to me. Somehow you manage to give me confidence when I mostly need it. You were actually the first follower on my blog! You signed up even before my husband did! It was you, and Shannon LeVart, who supported me when I was considering starting my Etsy shop, but was a bit unshure if I really was on the level where I could start selling my things. You often make me laugh! And smile. You make the most gorgeaus beads! You are incredibly generous! I imagine you are a great teacher. When I finally end up going to the USA on my beads-odyssé (hopefully within 1-2 years) I wish you to be the first person I meet up with.

After we have had our tea and cakes I will take you on a walk in my neighbourhood. This is the view of our backgarden with the little wood next to it. Behind the wood is a paddock for horses and behind that again one for cows. I think my two cats Alice and Charlie will follow us on our walk. And when we get back in again we can have another cup of tea to warm us up.

The slide-show shows ome of Barbaras own work, and some work made by her students in the classes she has in enameling:

Find more photos like this on Painting with Fire

Did I say I just love what you are doing Barbara! Beads and jewellery!

Links to Barbara and PaintingWithFire:

Website PaintingWithFireArtWear - from here you can reach all of Barbaras other pages, her blog, her Etsy shop and so on.

Blog Awarded

I received this blog award from Barbara Lewis of PaintingWithFire. Thank you so much, Barbara!

Here are the rules:

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.
2. Share 7 things about yourself.
3. Pass the award along to 15 other bloggers who you recently discovered and think are fabulous.
4. Contact the bloggers you chose and let them know about the award!

7 things about myself:

1. I am very tall, 6 foot and 2 inches, or 184cm.
2. I have a rather childish/immature personality in some senses.
3. I used to be a real party animal in my younger days.
4. I am crazy for cheese, especially blue cheese like Stilton or Roquefort.
5. My husband is 9 years younger than I am (he is mature, I am immature, so we are mentally the same age...). And he is the love of my life. Big time.
6. I have MS - Multiple Sclerosis. Have had it sinse I was 20 at least, from what I know now, but I only got the diagnosis about 2 years ago, when I was 42. MS sucks!!!!!
7. I have never been to the USA ... yet ... But I have traveled for 6 months, backpacking style, through South America in 1990. A great experience.

Okay, here goes! I'd like to give this award to the following blogs:

• Kristina - Manekis ParlBlogg (It is in Swedish, unfortunately for all you english speaking out there, but an absolutely great blog packed with useful information about beading)
• Marina Rios - Fanciful Devices
• Nicki - NickisReef
• Claire Maunsell - The Next Bend
• Stefanie Teufel - Stefanies Sammelsurium
• Aja Vaz - Wandering Spirits Designs
• Sabella - Sabella

Oh, it ended up being only 7 in my list right now. Hope that is OK.

Bracelet Paul & Polly

My entry for AprilABS is kind of my own personal/private fun experimental workshop put together in a bracelet. I have spent a lot of time scrutinizing Klee's painting. There are so many forms, colors and details in that painting you will never be finished looking at it. Always something new to experience and so many different ways of looking at it. It has really grown on me. (Although I have always been a fan of Klee.)

I made the curve and one of the beads myself in transparent polymer clay which I colored with Copic markers (that worked really well by the way, they contain alcohol).

Other materials/supplies I have used are black leather cord, recycled sari silk from Objects & Elements, an enamaled bead by Barbara Lewis at PaintingWithFire, various beads of wood, glass and brass, waxed linen cord and bronze wire.

For the "leaf dangle" I used a brass folded leaf from Objects & Elements and added an enameled headpin by Barbara Lewis. I made a spiral shape of the headpin.

Please write a comment! I would be very happy to hear what you think of this.

Links:

ABS - Art Bead Scene Blog

ABS - Art Bead Scene April Challenge

ABS - Art Bead Scene flickr page

Barbara Lewis - PaintingWithFireArtWear Blog

Objects & Elements Blog

Bracelet - Can't Keep It In

Bracelet for my best friend Caroline. A passionate and wonderful woman. So wise, so good and so marvellous in all possible ways.

Materials:

Red silk strands from recycled saris - Objects & Elements

2 enameled flowers & 3 enameled round beads - Barbara Lewis, Painting with Fire

Green & bordeaux enameled shiny ceramic bead - Bijoux Beads

Black beach stone toggle - IhsBlack

Waxed linen cord & chain - Panduro Sweden

Some seed beads and antiqued metal beads

Cat Stevens - Can't Keep It In

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