Beading again

After a super long (4 months) break I finally have found the time to bead again. 

Our life is upside down since December and the last year was pretty tough anyway.

Some of you probably know that my girl was diagnosed with autism about a year ago and after that moment everything started to go sideway big time. We tried everything to find her a nursery or a school where she can get the right development and being looked after during the day (she is 5 years old) but there was none.

After 1 year of strugle  we were techniquly forced to move back to the UK because the lack of development and care in my country. We moved in January and the last 2 months we were filling papers, seeing doctors, and organising interviews to find her the right place where she gets the right development and education. She is a very  special and loving little girl who needs help and we were willing to do anything to get it for her.

It was (is) a very stressful period in our life but I'm happy to say it's worth the effort: Babe will start in her school on the 16th of April. I couldn't be happier :)

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Now that our life started to be a little bet more predictable and we have filled most of the forms and seen most of the professionals I finally found some time to bead.

This bangle is a super fast and simple piece, made with cubic right angle weave and really versatile.

 I finished two colour variation so far, a green  ...

... and a white and also working on a black with colourful pattern in it. It only takes a few hours to bead up and very comfortable to wear.

I kind of like it. It's noticeable for sure, not for shy girls...

Working on the tutorial, the drawings are done, hope to finish the instructions in the next 2 days and will list it for sale as soon as I'm done :)

More pics

This bracelet is starter as a simple one and narrow - and fast - bracelet...

Here is what happened: I turned a few times and just kept beading and ended up with this wide 

and not so fast to bead bracelet.

 It's quite sparkly (nearly 250 Swarovski bicones) and also have some weight.

As you can see it is reversible, and makes a statement whichever side you use.

This was the first time I used Tila as some kind of frame bead. 

It was fun to bead, involved some modified RAW and also cross needle wave.

Tutorial is in my shop fdekszer.com and also on Etsy and Artfire.

Still addicted

... to Tila. Now I managed to combine all the 3 things I'm fascinated about into one piece: Peyote Tila Bangle

Little bit wider than my Boho Banlge but it has the same flexibility, very easy to put on & take off. Tomorrow I'll start the tutorial, hopefully will finish it by Wednesday.

New tutorial - new game - same rules

You can try my newest tutorial for free if the random number generator likes you :)

Please leave a comment under this post and share it on your blog or Facebook profile / page. You will have 3 days to do so, the game will end on Thursday evening 20:00 pm (Central European Time: GMT +1).

Good luck everybody!

Tila Ribbon

I'm usually more regular with my posts but right now life is just happening way too fast... We picked the date: 8th of January: we are permanently moving back to the UK. I'm doing this moving between countries third time. I think I had enough for a while ;)

Anyway, this is the explanation why I'm so not posting anything. Honestly, I'm happy I can still find some time for beading... Not even talking about all the other things I should get done before we move. I hope I will hafve more time for my "e-social life" after we settled down again.

And until then here is my newest design, a simple and very fast project: 

Tila Ribbon

Tutorial is in my Etsy Shop

Also, if you want to try this tutorial for free, please leave a comment under this post and share it on your blog or Facebook. 

Just like last time, one randomly picked lucky commenter will get Tila Ribbon.

This game will end at 20:00 (Central European Time) on Sunday.

Good luck everybody :)

Hugs, Viki

More Tila stuff and future new game

Okay, you could say I'm in kind of a Tila-fever and you have not even seen the stuff on my beading trays waiting to be shown. These little tricky squares got built in to my mind and keep my imagination occupied. I honestly don't mind it at least I'm concentrating something less stressful then swapping country in January...

Okay, here is the next one, which is technically the first one but had a very crap picture due to lack of sunshine and patience.

This one is called "Tila Time" but I'm kind of getting bored of my choice of names as far as Tila stuff is concerned. (Guess what, I also have one on my try called Tila Ribbon. May be I could just use T.Ribbon, like a decent family name.) 

So, back to the main stuff, I have the tutorial for this one in my Etsy shop, but sorry guys you still have to wait for my other Tila bracelet I posted yesterday. The graphics are done for the tutorial, only instructions are missing and will finish that tomorrow.

FUTURE NEW GAME

Also I have something in my mind about a new game as the first game I had on my blog was extremely successful. I'm still getting huge hit on THAT post with the free Peyote patterns. Well, obviously I can't give away all my patterns for free to everybody, but I will do for on lucky guy (randomly picked of course) who will comment on my future post - I will post when I finished the tutorial - and shares it with others. Okay, this was one complex and long sentence. The point is, I will make a blog post probably tomorrow about the new tutorial and just leave a comment and post it on your blog or Facebook and you can be the winner of my newest tutorial. 

We will see how it goes and I may do this game for my other new tutorials too. What do you think?

Bead therapy

Due to some not-so-nice eye infection I had to limit my computer usage in the last few days. 

I beaded instead.

This one called Tila Treasure.

The beads actually look like gems around the Tila beads.

 In lovely matt and metallic autumn colors.

This time I tried to make something less vivid yet colorful.

Hope you like it, guys. As always, I'm very happy to read your thoughts about my work.

Viki

New tutorials in my new Etsy shop

okay, not everything is new. I'm the same old me :)
Did I mention at all that I opened a new Etsy shop for the tutorials? Well, it was necessary because my little beauties got lost among the 200+ peyote pattern unless I put them in the featured window. This worked with 2 tutorials, but  I run out of space :)
So I opened a second (actually third, my second is the FDEkszer Loom Patterns shop) shop which has now more than 4 tutorials in it. To be precise it has exactly 5 items in it. But not for long :) I keep uploading the tutorials I've done already.
Today I managed to upload the Asteria Bracelet:

Asteria Bracelet

 and yesterday the pendant:

Asteria Pendant

Asteria bracelet with Blue Goldstone

The bracelet made with the same motif but here I used 8mm Blue Goldstone (this is one of my favoruite, so pretty, I just love it) and black firepolished beads with the pale pink delicas.