Captured crystal and a beaded cube

Time for a short entry and two more pendants. ;)

The first of them consists of a beautiful Preciosa vitrail light octagon crystal and Toho seed beads size 11 and 15. The bezel of the crystal is quite untypical as you see... but that's only because the crystal had a hole which I just needed to hide. ;) It measures 5cm (2") without the bail.

And the second pendant, a beaded cube, made of 4mm fire polished crystals and Czech seed beads size 10 and 15... The edge of the cube measures 2cm (0,78") and the pendant is extremely light as it's empty inside... Think I'll have to make such a cube of some different color some day, as it was quite easy and fast to create. But until then you can see the one that is already finished. ;)

Will be back soon with more beadwork of course. ;)

An award! And a medallion... :)

First of all, I can't believe it has happened, but my blog has got the very first award! I was awarded the Liebster Award by Justyna, who runs a blog Kącik Artystyczny, which you can visit here: http://myartkat.blogspot.com/ . It was even a better surprise, since it has happened on a day I got the first chemoterapy treatment. So while I was receiving some drugs to my veins, my blog celebrated receiving its first award! Yay! ;D

So thank you very, very much, Justyna, I really feel honoured with this award. :)

And here are my responses to your questions:

1. Always pot plants, *always*
2. A North American Indian xD
3. Walk, preferably with a nice company
4. Traditonal book... somehow I can't convince myself to read e-books really
5. Late evening. Or even *very* late evening
6. A movie
7. The comfortable clothes, definitely!
8. Ummm.... hard choice... chocolate? Or a cookie with some chocolate ;)
9. None ;) Oh fine, Facebook then
10. It depends on if I'm hungry or thirsty ;)
11. That is easy. Defeat cancer :P

Now the hard part... I am supposed to nominate 11 blogs to this award too. And trust me, it is *really* hard because there are so many great people running such great blogs! The other problem was, how many followers should those blogs have... some sources say less than 200, some other say that less than 500... very confusing really. But of all those I have ever found, visited and read, I'm chosing the following ones:

http://perlebijoux.blogspot.com/

http://bluefairy-art.blogspot.com/

http://ateliertby.blogspot.com/

http://gyongyosturak.blogspot.com/

http://koralikowyraj.blogspot.com/

http://bizuteria-blond.blogspot.com/

http://perlenfee.blogspot.com/

http://lunamis.blogspot.com/

http://75marghe75.blogspot.com/

http://emoke1.blogspot.com/

http://izziland-izziland.blogspot.com/

I won't have any questions for the owners of these blogs though. Because I feel a bit confused whether they should be in English or not... these blogs are Polish, German, English, Hungarian... not everyone can feel comfortable with responding to English questions then. So the awarded bloggers can nominate eleven blogs and give their own eleven  questions without responding to mine. :)

Also, I want to say hello to all new followers and to all of you, who liked Eridhan Creations on Facebook... This blog isn't that old yet and not very popular so far, but seeing that you visit it, makes me want to run it for longer and never give up. So a huge THANK YOU! :)

And finally, I have a pendant to show... I have spent quite a few hours on making it and used literally hundreds of beads: Czech charlotte beads size 15, Czech seed beads size 11, Toho seed beads size 8 and 15, 4mm fire polished beads and one wax pearl...  all of them resulted with a medallion that is 5cm (2") wide in diameter and looks like this:

Now that's a pendant that definitely has become my favourite one! ;)

Guess what? More beaded balls! ;)

That almost becomes boring, don't you think? It's always either a donut or a beaded ball. Ah, damn, I just like making them too much, so hopefully you won't find it boring anyway. ;)

So we'll start with a black sphere... or maybe I should rather say that it's a round cube? ;)
Whatever it is, it consists of six bezelled crystal cabochons bezeled with Toho seed beads (opaque frosted jet size 11 and metallic nebula size 15)... well those cabochons actually used to be a part of my friend's t-shirt, only while visiting me she decided to get rid of them... and I *really* had to make a use of them, couldn't really let them be wasted, could I? ;) These cabochons have been connected altogether and are accompanied by montana blue 4mm bicone cystals. The pendant is around 28mm (1,10") wide in diameter. And here it is:

The second one used to be just a simple beaded ball without any embellishment. After a few years though it received some new look thanks to some Czech seed beads. ;) It is a little bit bigger than the previous one and measures 33mm (1,30") in diameter.

And finally the third one. A pattern that has been shown on here before... it is also the pattern that probably will be the next tutorial too. Czech seed beads plus 6mm wax pearls... 2,5 cm (1") in diameter. Quite heavy, despite being rather small.

And now, all of them together at once, so you can better see their size... there's also the earring from the last entry as you can see. ;)

For me however it's about time to get some sleep. ;) So good night and I'll see you soon again. :)

Crackle cabochons and beaded balls...

...not used for pendants this time, but some earrings instead. After making that many pendants it was about time to create some earrings really. They were made almost two weeks ago, only I haven't got the occassion to show them on here until now.

The first pair of earrings consists of 4mm wax pearls as well as Czech seed beads. The beaded balls are 22mm (0,9") wide in diameter, and despite looking heavy, they are quite light. The pattern has been designed for pendants with 6mm pearls, so it had to be modified to be more suitable for earrings.

The two next pairs are just round cracle ceramic cabochons bezeled with Toho size 11, 15 and 8 seed beads. Both are 32mm (1,26") wide in diameter.

And finally the last one - simple dodecahedrons made from Czech seed beads. They're extremely light and measure around 2cm (0,79") in diameter.

Next time however there will be more pendants again. ;)

Beaded sphere - tutorial

So here I come with another beaded sphere - and another beading tutorial, a very detailed, step-by-step instruction. The pendant has been shown on here already - in this post. Now, if you follow the instruction, you can make one for yourself. ;)

The tutorial is available here on Craftsy and on Etsy.

And here's the pendant - in two different color versions.

Now a pendant like this can be yours too. ;)

Beaded crochet bracelets

After some beadweaving, it was finally time to do some bead crocheting instead. So here I am with two bracelets - one with the rose pattern, matching the necklace from this post, and another one, more geometric. The first one is a bit wider, 25 beads per row, while the second one is made with only 20 beads. Both are flattened, as this is the way that I like wearing them. Also, both are made entirely with Toho size 11 seed beads.

So here they are:

And separately:



As you can see, the second bracelet is different, depending on which side is up while wearing it. Unfortunately, the colours of the silver-lined milky beads used for this bracelet, despite their beauty, tend to wear off. They had to be protected in order to avoid it happening, so hopefully I can enjoy this bracelet for longer. ;)

And if you want to use the pattern for your project, feel free to do that. It is available just below. :)

In the next entry I will return to bead weaving though... So see you soon again. :)

Beaded cross and some earrings...

Yep, finally have made some earrings! I wouldn't have been myself though if I hadn't made some pendants too though. So in this entry you can see them both. Starting with the pendant anyway. ;)

The pendant is made from 6mm fire polished beads, 4mm bicones, 2mm metal balls and size 11 seed beads. It is double sided  and it measures 4,5 cm (1,57") without the bail. Not a typical pattern for me though since its shape more or less resembles a cross, but a very nice pendant to wear anyway. ;)

So the earrings I have made, at least one pair of them, is supposed to suit the pendant. It does, but only considering the colors, since they're made from exactly the same beads, but not when it comes to the shape. Oh well, I wouldn't wear both of them at the same time anyway. ;P The earrings measure 22mm (0.78") in diameter.

And finally the second pair of earrings, quite tiny ones, since they measure only 18mm (0,70"), which match the pendant from here. Made, as the earrings from above, from 6mm and 4mm fire polished beads and some metal 2mm balls. These ones, in opposition to the first pair, look quite well while wearing with the pendant. That can make me wear them more often then. ;)

And in the next entry - back to bead crocheting. ;)