I was chosen Designer of the Week at Art Bead Scene

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 community over these days. Wise things have been said. Thank you all of you! And now THIS is the icing on the cake! Feels great! :-)

Here's the link to Art Bead Scene.

It's a bit funny that I went through a questioning period, coz I am really thrilled about the design of this bracelet. I love how it looks, and it feels great to wear. And now I do wanna try the concept with other components. I guess the doubting is not related to reality and the now, but to how you feel inside. It's about the future, about longing, wishing, analyzing, developing, thriving, visions and so on. What's your thought on the subject?

ABS May Challenge - Bracelet

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 unusual combo in a jewelry piece maybe. But oh so yummie!

I am very pleased and excited about the solution with the three leather ribbons/bands going in and out of Round Rabbit's beautiful porcelain rings. They are playing hide and seek with each other :-) .

Look, I tried to take a Lorelei Eurto-esque picture of the bracelet on me. I really like her style when she photographs the pieces on herself. No one was there to help me, so I ended up with a bunch of pictures of the wall behind me and a little bit of my nose in one corner. I didn't bother with setting up the camera or programming it for delayed exposure. Simply held it myself with a stretched out arm. This one worked out ok anyway.

The pattern on the porcelain rings works perfectly to capture the romantic atmosphere in the painting, don't you agree.

The green dangle bead is a Swarovski milky green facetted round. The rest is copper components.

If you wanna see all the current contributions for the challenge go here.

And don't miss the blog hop about all the contributions that has been blogged about, starting at Art Bead Scene at the end of the month.

All my best! Have a great weekend. Mine will be very busy :-)