Hi Everyone!

 

Only a week to go and we enter into a new year. 2013 will be a year of introspection and great change.  So I am sending you best wishes for this upcoming year. That love rules over your life and that your dreams come true.

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

Happy Christmas

Hi Everyone!

 

Just stopped in to wish all of you a happy Christmas, however you celebrate.

 

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

HOWLING WOLF

Hi Everyone!

I have finished the Howling Wolf and it will be hand delivered over Christmas.

Enjoy!

Picture printed on Nicole's BeadBacking with my printer.

 Huichol style beading

Attached to another piece of Nicole's BeadBacking that has a painted night sky

Entire piece is then attached to drift wood and embellished

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

A BIT OF BEADING HISTORY

Hi Everyone!

When I think of how far the beading world has come in the last 40 years it is truly amazing. In the early 1970s Bell Bottom pants, Empire dresses, clog shoes, and the beaded jewelry was mainly Native American or Hippie macramé with a single bead attached. Of course there was high fashion jewelry but that was far away for big named designers. The only instructional books were old time Native craft books. This book has everything from leather work to tanning hides and beading.

 

 

 The 1980s took a step up thanks to Deon Delange and her books on Techniques in Beaded Earrings and later More Techniques in Bead Earrings.  We also have Virginia Blakelock to thank for doing the research and writing, "Those Bad Bad Beads", and Loren and Donna Woerpel who wrote Beadworking.

                     

                 

These books brought beading to the forefront in the early days and from there the explosion began. At that time the Japanese seed bead was the worst on the world trade market, being very un-uniform and colors that came off on your hands as you worked. Czech seed beads were the beads of choice followed by French and Italian seed beads. By the early 1990's Miyuki was importing the Delica seed bead to the US,  known then as "D" beads. Bead n Button published it first all bead magazine and people wanted beads. Art schools across the country started teaching more on jewelry design and fashion. Several more beading instructional magazines popped up and before we knew it there were hundreds of instructional books available. Now those numbers are in the thousands. Toho stepped in with a computer to make their beads uniform and soon the Japanese seed bead took first place over the Czech. Bead stores, magazines, books, beads and every type of jewelry and bead art is now the art of the world. As I said in the beginning I am amazed at the industry a small thing like a bead has created.

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

CHRISTMAS HORSE STORY

Hi Everyone!

It is storming something wicket out. Glad we are in for the weekend. There are things in our lives that touch our hearts. One for me is horses. Since I was a little girl I have always wanted a horse of my own. One of my worst Christmas mornings, I was 11years old and had been asking for a horse all year. We lived in an area where there was room for one and other neighbors had horses. I spent my free time at the neighbors. My grand parents arrived for Christmas bringing lots of gifts including two very large wooden boxes, one for me one for my sister. You know the old slat boxes. Poking out from the slats was "hay" OMG! could it be? I would open this box to find it full of hay that I would carry out to the back to find my horse? Even more exciting my sister has one too so we could ride together?  I was so excited! I kept checking the back field to see if they brought my house in yet. Christmas morning. My brothers and sister were opening gifts and it was a frenzy of laughter, oooohhhhhs and aaaaahhhhhs. Then it was time. My Nan called my sister and I over to the big boxes. We tore into them I grabbed up the hay and and.... what was this? My sister cried out in happy joy to find a life sized doll. She danced around the living room holding her doll and was as happy as can be. I stood there with a hay covered life size doll as my heart fell to my toes. A doll? I never played with dolls ever! My mom asked what was wrong. I asked where my horse was? I began to cry. Of course the "hay" was Celsius a packing material of the time. I remember everyone trying to console me. My baby brother brought out some of his pajamas so this huge doll with the moving eyes could wear them. This is a true story. I did end up giving my doll to my sister. I was quite the tom-boy. I never did get a horse of my own but my soul is still connected to them.

 

Have a very nice Sunday

 

 These two must be from Florence LOL

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

Hi Everyone!

 

I find I am having trouble starting this post. Too much evil going on and it is difficult not to be affected by it all. My heart and prayers go out to the victims in near by

Portland, OR and Connecticut shootings

 

So today was going to be a note to tell you that I have closed down my Beadwright etsy store and my web site until Jan. 1, 2013. All is well here just revamping for a new year.

 

Wishing all of you a very happy day

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

FEATHERS AND LEATHER

Hi Everyone!

 

The sun is trying to come out and show some blue skies. Yeahhhh finally a break from the darkness.

Most of you know that my background stems from Native American. Most of my life I have worked with animal and natural items to create art with. Working with these types of materials is ALWAYS to honor the animal or the part of nature. There is a real honesty to art when you use feathers and hides and leather. With that I have just listed some leather and wild Turkey feathers in my Beadwright Etsy store. The leather is deer, cow, and lamb with some really nice embossing.

Creating art with all types of materials.

 

Wild Turkey wing feathers

Wild Turkey tail feathers.

 

Embossed Lamb. This is a very cool piece of leather.

Perfect leather for traditional crafts and backing for bead and Soutache finishing

Leather thong in black, white and buck skin

 

There is so much more in my Beadwright Etsy Store

 

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

RUSSIAN ARTISTS BORIS INDRIKOV

Hi Everyone!

 

The Internet, as we all know, has allowed us to travel the world, see sights we would never have seen, and educated us in ways that no one expected. Even though I have always felt I was born in the wrong century I do enjoy traveling the world via Internet. Especially the art world. Today I am sharing the art of Boris Indrikov from Russia.

 

Boris Indrikov was born in Leningrad in 1967 and lives and works in Moscow . From 1991 - 1997 he was a book designer and worked as an illustrator for the popular science magazine "Chemistry and Life".He has been a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia and the UNESCO International Federation of Artists since 1998.Has exhibited works at a number of shows in Russia and abroad (Art-Manezh 2002, 2003, 2012, ART-Salon 2007, Drommar ( Sweden , Nykoping 2004) and others).He currently works in painting, graphic design and small-form plastic. He works mainly in fantastic realism.His pictures are in the HORIZON gallery ( Netherlands ), and private collections in Russia , Sweden , Germany , France , Switzerland , Japan and the United States

 

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

THE ART OF CARMEN GHECCA

Hi Everyone!

I was trying to get my reading list up so I can see what all of you are doing, but of course blogger won't bring it up in any form. eeerrrgggg. While I was on the dashboard ( not call that any longer) I noticed that, with this post, I have written one thousand and one blog post. WOW!!! Glad you all stuck around for the gibber. LOL

 

Today I want to share some wonderful art by a woman named Carmen Ghecca. I love her point of view. Please stop by her website to see more of her art.

 

Carmen Ghecca, born in Silkeborg, Denmark in 1981, has always been sketching and painting, throughout her childhood. At the age of 15 she became aware of how big the roll creation had/would have in her life, taking a major part of her identity as a hostage.
2 years after finishing her pre-university career with art and languages as her majors, Carmen Ghecca had her first exhibition in 2002 and joined her first Fine Arts school (Byhøjskolen, Århus - Denmark) shortly after. A rebel of classifications and monotone patterns she ran off to Barcelona, Spain by the age of 23. There she attended several art schools, here among Metáfora Contemporary Art and Escola Massana, through which she grounded are profound global network of contemporary artists of varies genres. After several years of studying, performing and exhibiting, Carmen Ghecca is now a constantly, producing artist, deeply engaged to her projects and the technical challenges behind.

 

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

BEAUTIFUL ART OF GUSTAVO LACERDA

Hi Everyone!

Today I want to show you the magnificent  art of Gustavo Larcerda. He creates other types of art, however these images are hauntingly beautiful and I am pulled in by each one of them.

Enjoy the art

 

Gustavo Larcerda

 

 Albino Series

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

DO YOU SOUTACHE?

Hi Everyone!

 

Most of you know that I have been in the beading world for close to 50 years. I sold my first piece of bead work when I was 14 on the streets in San Francisco, CA. and from there it has been one adventure after another. I have taught more people how to bead than carter has liver pills. LOL ( very old saying.) A very large portion of them started businesses. I have been published over 400 times, have developed products and techniques for out industry and am a part of a world that just keeps expanding. It is amazing to see how traditional beading techniques from all over the world have evolved and are embraced to form new and wonderful beading concepts. Soutache isn't new by any means, however the jewelry being produced using this technique is; vibrant in color and exotic in shape. The creative mind can use this form of art to achieve not just jewelry but fine art as well. I am again excited to still be around to see the great changes in the beading world.

 

Soutache beauty in color and form. Click on photo for link

 

If you need Soutache supplies be sure to stop by our Beadwright Etsy store

 

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

NOT A BREATH OF WIND

Hi Everyone!

OK so how strange is this? After the 72mph winds we had yesterday I wake up this morning to not a breath of wind. It is an eerie feeling. We ALWAYS have wind here. Stark weathered trees standing still against the shades of grey sky. Seagulls and ravens flying in tandem, shadowed black. It truly feels like the calm before a storm. Let us hope not.

Geeee on a lighter note. LOL I have been so busy listing new items in my Beadwright Etsy Store. I mean seriously there are over 350 beads, beading supplies, Nicole's BeadBacking, Cabochons, Nymo thread, Swarovski Rivolis, Ultrasuede, leather and much much more. Ohhh and because the grab bag sold so quickly I have made up a second bag. Hurry it won't last long. I also have some textured Nicole's BeadBacking listed. The color is Hawk Wing with a painted texture that you can bead right on top of adding more color and texture to your beading and art projects. I am excited about this and will have more colors this week. 

Here are just a few of the items in our Beadwright Etsy Store

 Textured Hawk Wing NBB

 This cab is amazing in depth and color

How can you go wrong with Lucite?

Wishing all of you the best day

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

Hi Everyone!

I am not going to be on the computer very long. We are in the middle of a very high wind storm. Oh and let us not forget the rain that comes with it. The Pacific is roaring and rumbling, it is loud.

The wind and the water meet in angry gestures both fighting for the right to be heard.

The lights are flickering so I will wish all of you a happy day. Stay safe and warm.

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright

MONDAY THE WALKING DEAD AND MORE

Hi Everyone!

 

OK so did you love the mid season finale of The Walking Dead? I hate that we won't see the rest of the season until February. UUURRRGGGGG........ I do like that the Governor is truly showing his true colors. Andrea..... has turned into such a sap.  Give me Daryl (Norman Reedus) any day of the week. If I was only 20 years younger. LOL

 

 

 Let's see if Merle stands up with his brother next year.   

 

News year eve and day the entire episodes 1, 2 and the first part of 3 will be showing.

 

 

Today I am extremely busy and most Mondays are for me. I have a wolf to bead for a special order and need to get with that ASAP. I got the pattern from my good friend Lori (Cook) Culligan. Check out her website and all of her patterns.

http://www.thebeadcoop.com/Designers/DesignerInfo.asp?DesignerUserID=4603

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Outoftheflames

 

 

eeeeeekkkk I can't believe how fast my grab bag sold!!! and have had emails asking if I will have any more. OK for those of you who want grab bags I will get some made up this week. I fall for grab bags too. Can't pass one up in a store. 

 

 Wishing all of you a happy Monday

 

Honor and Integrity in Life in Art

Nicole/Beadwright