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About Me
- Oksana Starzhynska
- My blog's main subjects are sewing, the thing in which I am experienced the most, and beadwork, which is, in fact, pushed me into blogging. I am also engaged in knitting and crocheting. All together they are the set of skills which I use to make my wardrobe my whole life. These are not my only interests, I also like the English language (that's one of the reasons that my blog is bilingual), try to travel around my country and abroad (when can afford it), am interested in art (to the degree of a dilettante but nevertheless) and adore the people who can create anything beautiful or useful whatever it is :-) So welcome to a needlecrafter diary!
26 July 2015
Like a Piece of Heirloom Earrings
If I ever had any, of course... When I bought these rivioli and was matching the seed beads for making the bezel, on some reason I fancied how the ready earrings would look if I had got them as an heirloom from any of my grand grandmas. One of them I saw a couple of times. It was an old-aged woman, who read without glasses at her eighty; small and gaunt, worn with hard work hands and wearing a very neat kerchief, she was sitting on an ancient bed in the shadow under the tree... And her portrait had nothing in common with an old dark chest, in which grandchildren find various treasures... No. But the image of another grandma, which I have never seen in my life and just heard about her only a thing or two surely could inspire for such visions. She was in origin from Poltava and before met her Polish fiance, was a, what is now called, self-employed: she travelled around, stayed in different families and while staying made clothes for the household and in this way earned for living. At least the family legend says so.
It is my first attempt and experience to bead a bezel and I guess it is pretty successful. And it is not so complex as I expected it would. The most important to watch or to read a few tutorials to understand the common idea of the beading. You can find a lot of them, as for me, I like this one and for the triangular stone. Most or maybe all of the tutorials recommend to use seed beads of different size and shapes - the contrast actually gives the shape for the bezel, some tutorials depict the bezel for a certain size so you have to think on your own about the numbers of seed beads and rows. I only had our mostly spread Czech seed beads 10.0 so had to improvise.
It seems to me the best piece of heirloom I could get from that my great grandma, is my passion to create different things. And for saving such treasure I need no chest...
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... не тільки " пристрасть до створення різних речей", а й до мандрів "по різних усюдах"...Ні, такий " бабусин скарб" не повинен знаходитися у скрині!!!
ReplyDeleteДякую:-)) Добре, що це згодилось у житті і не довелося нічого ховати:-)
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