little petals

I mentioned that I've been attempting to bead lately, so I had to go scour for my materials. I've got the string and wire, but I lack seed beads! And what's more, I need hairpins, wire hair combs (it's so hard to find it in Malaysia!), etc. :( not easy, and I hadn't even started.

Thankfully, I managed to start on a project anyway :D

A five-petaled flower hair-pin!

This is the prototype version. It wasn't sturdy enough for me though, so I improvised the pattern and came up with the same little flower hairpin with better "bending" power! Because this is made by wire, the petals can be bent to give it a slightly "lotus" shape or be flattened :)

Materials: Matsuno Glass Beads, faux acrylic pearl, black hairpin

made to order

~RM10 each~

Colours: crystal blue, rose pink, crystal

Distant Worlds

Oops, was too absorbed with my trip to Singapore last weekend. I went to watch Final Fantasy ~Distant Worlds~ concert!! ♥ It was superb, and some songs were so beautiful it nearly made me cry. Encore was awesome, and the best bit was Nobuo Uematsu-sensei was there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I GOT HIS AUTOGRAPH, along with Arnie Roth's! :)

Was beading some flower hairpins for an order after I got back... Beading can be such a spellbinding past-time. Thanks Bev for introducing it to me!

monotone

These days I feel like making really simple but effective designs. I was looking through all the things I made, and I noticed that they're all really fancy and eye-catching. Not that it's bad, but there were some days when I feel like not having my earrings as the eye-catcher, but instead as a compliment to the clothes I wear.

Meet the first of the series, made of black and white Czech glass beads!

Materials: Czech glass beads

~RM8~

bird garden ~interlude~

Since I saw a lampwork bead of a birdhouse, I've always wanted to make a bird-themed bracelet for myself. I set to work on my clay and sculpted out a bird house. After that, I made some clay roses, along with a little bird to match the theme.

It took about 2 weeks for the coating to set properly, then I set my tools on it last week.

...wait a minute, that didn't look like a little bird! In fact, it's HUGE! That's because I accidentally incorporated the little bird into a different part of the set. Oops. I had to find a quick replacement for my bracelet's little bird, and it just happened to be that leftover oversized piyo-chan. Well, I'll make a new one as soon as I've got time :)

So where's the little bird?

There it is, right in the middle! I've attached it onto a necklace, so it makes a tiny pendant!

materials: clay, pearls, glass beads, sterling silver charms and findings

Mother's day ~interlude~

I was sick for the past few days; down with a flu, had a bad headache... It was horrible. So now there'll be a series of updates for all that I did over the weekend!

Let's start with the card I made for mum on Mother's day :3



Yup, I love my lace and beads! ♥ I gave mum a pair of earrings made of pearl and crystals as well. Didn't take a picture of them though. Oh well.

candy twins

When I made these, I thought they look so much like Japanese boys! You know, with the kimono (the three beads for sleeves and the bottom half of their wear), and the black hats (albeit much taller) they wear in the Heian era. It just reminded me of the men in the e-maki of my Genji no Monogatari books.

But a friend took one look and said "Ooh, candies!"

Materials: glass beads

~RM18~

What's your take on them?

bashful blossoms

I recently got myself some wire... I'm experimenting what I can do with it!

Materials: glass beads, acrylic beads
~RM12~

springtime flowers ~pink~

The pink (finally!) variant for Springtime Flowers! Why finally? Well I couldn't find any pink glass beads so this has been a long delayed colour variant. Unlike the previous flowers though, these pink flowers are made of acrylic, and they look slightly larger. The colours are really sweet!

Materials: acrylic beads, Swarovski pearls, Swarovski crystals

~RM17~
Reserved

KiRA flutters ~interlude~

When I make my designs I usually make just one of them so I can use the same materials for a different design. Most of them were taken away from me almost immediately, or they were just meant for someone else. That also means that I get to keep next to none of all the stuff I made.

So when I made these pair of pretties, I made it with the intention of keeping them. They're mine, and still mine ;) One of my happiest works yet, because the butterflies and stars tinkle as I walk, and the crystals twinkle through my hair.

Remake possibilities: in pink, blue and yellow. Sorry, but these AB butterflies will be mine and mine only! >w<

~RM28~