Monday, July 4, 2011

I could not resist anymore

I had to touch my beads. Looking at them did not satisfy me any more. In the last 2 months I had way too many things in my life to deal with and even more stuff on my desk to finish (or start...) Unfortunately non of those things on my desk related to beading.

Yesterday (I could have predicted that before...) my addiction won. I decided to tide up my beading trays. All 6 of them.

Of course packing beads usually ends up beading. (Hope I'm not alone with this.)

So I thought I could make a copy of a pendant I made about 2 months ago, but - of course - forgot to take notes while I was beading. It is SOOOOO me...

Anyway, it seemed quite a simple task, but after I did the bezel around the rivoli I managed to miss-bead something. Well, the pendant did not look like the original at all, however I liked the result so much that I started to work with it.

Here is my first born:

I know I went crazy with the colors, but we had horrible dark and cloudy day and tried to make up for the weather.

And why should I stop after one pendant when I can bead two? Two is always better than one, right?

My second one worked up faster after I picked the colors. However I spent more time to choose the right shades than to bead it up... If I don't like the colors together I will hate the result too... And I don't like to hate my own beadwork, so sometimes (usually...) spend more time with the color picking than with the actual beading...

And here are the twins together. They don't even look like they are related... Incredible how the colors effect the (optical) shape of the pendants.

I have not got name yet, so they are called twins just now.

If you have any good idea, don't be shy and share it with me :)

Have a great Monday,

Viki

Monday, June 27, 2011

Facebook Fever

Yeah, it reached me too. I tried to resist but I lost...

To be honest, I've seen that people around me use FB to make their PERSONAL life completely open to anybody. It was just too weird for me. Worse than a blog. No Privacy any more in your life.

Than it hit me: there are thousands of beaders out there and how great it would be to know what they are up to! So now what my personal profile used to be is an FDEkszer beading fan profile. I keep connecting friends from all over the planet and feels so good to find like minded and check out their fantastic beadwork!

If I have not found you yet, you can make the first step too :)

http://www.facebook.com/FDEkszer

Now in the mean time - even if I seemed to be very quiet - we are working very hard to get all the patterns available to our customers on all the different sites. I hope this part of our job will be done very soon because I miss beading very much. Converting our patterns to loom is a huge job even if it seems great fun. We have nearly 300 patterns to convert and make a PDF for the Loom Pattern, than upload them to all the sites we sell beading patterns.

On etsy we have a separate Loom shop :
FDEkszer Loom Patterns with nearly 90 patterns available.

Our Artfire shop FDEkszer got a completely new look. Allan designed everything, I think it looks fantastic. He also started to upload the Loom patterns and will add some new everyday.

Here are the two latest addition on Artfire and Etsy:

ARTFIRE: