Long time, new beads! (festival-beads!!!)

Yes, I know. Long time, no beads. Or so it seems, but I have been making beads, lately, its all festival beads.. We have a huge music festival in Oslo called the Øya festival. Featuring all the latest bands and gathering nearly 15 000 people in Oslo. The sorrounding of the festival is the medieval city of oslo, with remaining ruins of the kings palace, church of st. maria, the medieval city and harbour area.

I was so inspired that I made some beads: the y are not that advanced, but I like them. They are called "all night long"...

Focal bead and spacers: turqoise, dark green, yellow and silvered stringer..

Etched focal bead, spacers beads

Different spacer beads; green, torqoise, silvered, ivory stringer.

News from Perlefryd! Finally..

Quick update from Perlefryd:

• The kitchen is (almost) finished!


• My studio is filled with left-over furniture we either should sell or just throw away..


• I just ordered some presses and molds (jiiha!!)


• It is only 5 weeks till Christmas - puh!
  

Ok, I admit I haven’t been the most productive beadmaker the last two months! When there’s no kitchen, there’s no reason in the world Sir Glenn would accept me running away and making beads instead of redecorating…

But last week I told him he could buy a Playstation 3, and now he is happily road
racing upstairs.. Hi hihihih ;-).

I wanted to show you a bracelet I made when trying to master the fish-shell technique. No bead is alike and not one came out the way I wanted it to. But thanks to the masters for showing me “how to” in books and on internet. I am most grateful! Later I will find out how to make my own design out of it.

I have many of orders for the moment – all to be ready before Christmas. Of course… Hopefully I will post more before Christmas. Maybe a sneak peek of some of the gifts..?

Perlefryd have entered a design-competition!

I have entered at competition in one of the local beads-stores in Norway. I’m not sure whether I have what it takes to win, but it was fun just trying to make a complete set of jewelry!!

Here are some pictures of the beads I used, they are simple but I like the effect.

And now I’m of on summer vacation… See ya!

I ruined the vikingbeads, but made some circusbeads instead..

(Norsk versjon)
But, never mind, they were not that nice anyway.. I just have to try again! Having spent hours making prehistoric reproductions that broke, I went back to basics. Remind me not to put too hot beads in water…

I’ve had a ivory, silver, earth-colored phase for a while, but I was ready for a clean break. This is pure, simple, strong colored beads! I like to call them circus-beads!

I'm not quite done with these beads, but put them together just for fun. I think I can make a lot of happy jewelry-sets with these beads :-)

Finally I promised to show you my "studio":

It`s kind of a Kinder-egg; studio, library and guestroom..

Perlemaker Perlefryd perler igjen!

Perlefryd hilser slekt og venner i Bartebyen! Jeg vet dere ser på...

Nå har jeg fått noen bestillinger og det er skikkelig moro å lage perler noen kanskje skal bruke i egne smykkedesign! Jeg har laget et anheng av perlen med blå hjerter. Foreløpig er det min yndling..

Jeg har kjøpt nye farger og bladsølv.. Her er noen eksempler:

Det ligger forresten flere bilder på:

http://www.vgb.no/20052/