Battle of the Beadsmith 2013 - NY 202 - Tara Meril

This year's "The Battle of the Beadsmith" competition has reached phase 2 --> now you can see Group C photos on the battle's facebook page! A looooot of goergous and clever masterpieces with very interesting ideas and tricks - you don't want to miss this!

Just a little reminder, just in case....

Battle's facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/419636224777912/

Battle blog: http://battleofthebeadsmith.blogspot.hu/

There will be an internal vote over the weekend (only for the contestants and the invited jury), then next week the public is invited to vote on their favorites in each battle pairing. The winner of each pair moves onto the next round. If you are interested in voting, join the group (see link above) then you can fint the instructions for the voting here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/419636224777912/473534662721401/

PUBLIC VOTING ONLY ON 11th and 12th!!!!

NY 193 - Assorted feelings

 

 

 

NY 180 - Transformed

This was my piece for Bead Mavens´ Bead Soup Double Up challenge. I was in pair with Cath Thomas, she sent me this "soup":

I love those beautiful purple sw squares. I don´t really like bezelling with peyote, so usually I use RAW with 2 needles and firepolished beads to make a tight setting that can be used as a firm base for further embellishing. I just did not like the results of my first attempts, so finally I made triangles from the squares. Then I just continued to "trasform" every crystal into a different shape than they were originally. Hence the name ;) (To be honest, I´m quite a lazy beader when it comes to ropes... I never liked monotone things... so I just made a very simple 4 stranded "random" necklace for the pendant.)