Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Japanese Girl
This weekend was full of music (we had a tiny rock festival in our town) and new beads, one of them is my latest auction.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Girl with a handbag
She's holding a small one in her hand and on the backside of the bead there's a bigger handbag, cause girls never can have enough. (auction)
Monday, June 22, 2009
Flowers on an Igloo?
I have a new auction on Ebay. The flowers and the igloo are on the backside of this bead, so click here to see it. The front is covered with a blue penguin.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
What's wrong with the weather these days?
I don't like to talk about the weather here (or in general) - usually. But since days or weeks now it's driving me crazy. I don't know how it is on other parts of germany, but we have really a weird change between the brightest sunshine ever and rainstorms, in about 10 minutes drifference inbetween. So I want to go to the postoffice, take a shirt, pack all my stuff in the handbag, turn down the comupter, take my summer shoes, look out the window again: and see, suddenly it's raining cats and dogs! The streets are completly empty from one minute to the other, you just see a few people trying to hide somewhere. And five minutes later you can only guess from the wet streets that it was rainig because now the sun is back. And so on and on through the complete day. This is not normal.
I have a new bead on Ebay, "Blueboy". It's a cute free formed bead with a coral penguin on it, who has been grown up with hamsters ;-) (therefore the similarity).
I have a new bead on Ebay, "Blueboy". It's a cute free formed bead with a coral penguin on it, who has been grown up with hamsters ;-) (therefore the similarity).
Monday, June 15, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
More Murrinis
on my Etsy store now! The different colors and diameters will offer you a great variety to play and experiment with. Enjoy!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Madagascar
Madagascar is absolutly my favorite animation film. Last week I watched part II and it was so funny... and inspiring. "Madagascar" on Ebay now.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Pineapple House
... with a princess on the backyard – that's the complete name which didn't fit into the ebay describtion. Check the auction to see why I called it like this.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
More houses
"Houses" - a new set on Ebay.
Can you remeber the house set Anastasia made years ago? Very different than mine, but can I can still remember that she made it. Soft colors and house shaped beads...
After my long blog yesterday here I had my first bead dream ever. It was more a nightmare.
I dreamt that I was at a glass studio and had to teach a class, but when I arrived there I thought my class starts one day later. But I was wrong and the students showed up there and wanted me to teach (one of them was a very pregnant Eva Longoria). So no problem, I started with my lesson (which was in my dream very similar to what it really is like) and when I wanted to start with the stringer pulling demo I found out that the glass studio don't wants to give us glass in order to save money. The owner - a aweful blonde man - just offered 5 short rods for all students together (3 rods of different yellows, one opal blue and I think one transparent amethyst). So I had an argument with him and told him that the students paid a lot of money a) to be here and b) they paid an extra amount for the glass and there is none. The next thing I can remember is, that I went on with talking about color choices and said something like "use opal yellow" and someone told me "oh no, they are not going to produce opal yellow any more..." :-)
And so the class day ended, I was completly exhausted, my students didn't have the chance to work because of no glass. Pretty funny how much details I still know from that dream.
Can you remeber the house set Anastasia made years ago? Very different than mine, but can I can still remember that she made it. Soft colors and house shaped beads...
After my long blog yesterday here I had my first bead dream ever. It was more a nightmare.
I dreamt that I was at a glass studio and had to teach a class, but when I arrived there I thought my class starts one day later. But I was wrong and the students showed up there and wanted me to teach (one of them was a very pregnant Eva Longoria). So no problem, I started with my lesson (which was in my dream very similar to what it really is like) and when I wanted to start with the stringer pulling demo I found out that the glass studio don't wants to give us glass in order to save money. The owner - a aweful blonde man - just offered 5 short rods for all students together (3 rods of different yellows, one opal blue and I think one transparent amethyst). So I had an argument with him and told him that the students paid a lot of money a) to be here and b) they paid an extra amount for the glass and there is none. The next thing I can remember is, that I went on with talking about color choices and said something like "use opal yellow" and someone told me "oh no, they are not going to produce opal yellow any more..." :-)
And so the class day ended, I was completly exhausted, my students didn't have the chance to work because of no glass. Pretty funny how much details I still know from that dream.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Staying at Home
On Ebay now.
Maybe you wanna know "why houses on a bead"? I can tell you the story. But first I have to tell you how I came up three years ago with the "Indian Elephants" (because one thing leads to the other):
In most of my classes last year I thought how to make the elephants and explained how I came with that idea.
I was searching for an animal that is fun to be made, which is beautiful in my eyes and also fits into my life and to my character (you say, an elephant never forgets how he has been treated by someone).
When I was 16/17 I had a boyfriend who gave me as a christmas present a small elephant figure, made of jade. Which is really a nice cute present - but in that age I was not able to see that and just didn't know what to do with it. Anyhow, I kept it... and kept it all those years, even though the trunk broke, the jade elephant came with me and survived all my moves and became more and more important. In the last few years some friends made me more elephant presents and I'm not really collecting them because I don't like to collect things, but I have 3 tiny elephants which have all been given by close friends, one elephant pillow and a cigarette box with an pink elephant on it.
So, that's how I came up with the idea of making elephant beads.
After telling that story one of my students asked me "But why an animal?" - and I just answered impulsivly "because making a house f. e. would not be nice, it's not a living subject, it has no character, you can't play with the impression of the eyes, the shape and so on. An animal offers you thounsands of possibilities to play with."
I think that is still right, an animal or fairy or any other living subject offers you more possibilities than an house, or a car or any other "thing". But I wanted to prove that thesis to myself and found out that I was wrong: making a house IS a nice idea, I can play with the shape of the house, the roof, the garden around it, the road which leads to the house and so on and on...
Maybe you wanna know "why houses on a bead"? I can tell you the story. But first I have to tell you how I came up three years ago with the "Indian Elephants" (because one thing leads to the other):
In most of my classes last year I thought how to make the elephants and explained how I came with that idea.
I was searching for an animal that is fun to be made, which is beautiful in my eyes and also fits into my life and to my character (you say, an elephant never forgets how he has been treated by someone).
When I was 16/17 I had a boyfriend who gave me as a christmas present a small elephant figure, made of jade. Which is really a nice cute present - but in that age I was not able to see that and just didn't know what to do with it. Anyhow, I kept it... and kept it all those years, even though the trunk broke, the jade elephant came with me and survived all my moves and became more and more important. In the last few years some friends made me more elephant presents and I'm not really collecting them because I don't like to collect things, but I have 3 tiny elephants which have all been given by close friends, one elephant pillow and a cigarette box with an pink elephant on it.
So, that's how I came up with the idea of making elephant beads.
After telling that story one of my students asked me "But why an animal?" - and I just answered impulsivly "because making a house f. e. would not be nice, it's not a living subject, it has no character, you can't play with the impression of the eyes, the shape and so on. An animal offers you thounsands of possibilities to play with."
I think that is still right, an animal or fairy or any other living subject offers you more possibilities than an house, or a car or any other "thing". But I wanted to prove that thesis to myself and found out that I was wrong: making a house IS a nice idea, I can play with the shape of the house, the roof, the garden around it, the road which leads to the house and so on and on...
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