Start your Christmas sideline: Basic Beading for Beginners

Start:	Oct 11, '09 2:00p
End:	Oct 11, '09 6:00p
Location:	The Beadlady, Cubao Expo

Learn to make accessories for fun and profit!

This 4-hour class will introduce you to the basics of accessory-making, and allow you to create your own pieces to give as gifts or start a business this season!

What: Beading as a Sideline - Basic workshop for beginners
When: Oct. 11, 2009 2pm to 6pm
Where: The Beadlady Craft Cafe, Cubao Expo
Fee: Php1,300

All materials and tools included. You get your own bead kit, with the prettiest supplies.

Small class size (only 4 students) so you get personal instruction.

Lunch also included.


See map to our studio here:
http://beadlady.multiply.com/photos/album/183/The_Beadlady_Craft_Cafe#photo=9

For reservations, email: angelisartbeads@gmail.com

The Ultimate Realistic Miniature Food Workshop

Start:	Oct 10, '09 10:00a
End:	Oct 10, '09 6:00p
Location:	The Beadlady, Cubao Expo

Learn the secrets of my yummy trinkets. From simple beginner's projects to advanced realistic projects.

What: Advanced Workshop - Realistic Miniature Food
Fee: P3, 500
When: Sept 26, 2009 (10am to 6pm)
Where: The Beadlady Craft Cafe, Shop 54 Cubao Expo

See map here:
http://beadlady.multiply.com/photos/album/183/The_Beadlady_Craft_Cafe#photo=9

Inclusive of materials, lunch, and snacks.

For reservations email angelisartbeads@gmail.com.

More Moroccan-inspired necklaces

New stuff for the Moroccan collection, plus a few key necklaces.

One-off

No name for these pieces yet.

P450 each

New brass rings

Last 3 pcs.

P150 each

New Moroccan-inspired necklaces at the shop tomorrow.

Start:

Sep 16, '09

The first and second batches of these Moroccan-inspired necklaces got sold fast, but I was able to make a few more this week!

All one of a kind, I didn't repeat a design.

Come visit The Beadlady Craft Cafe tomorrow. Only a few pieces available. We open at 4pm.

Start your Christmas sideline: Basic Beading Workshop

Start:	Oct 3, '09 10:00a
End:	Oct 3, '09 2:00p
Location:	Cubao Expo

Learn to make accessories for fun and profit!

This 4-hour class will introduce you to the basics of accessory-making, and allow you to create your own pieces to give as gifts or start a business this season!

What: Beading as a Sideline - Basic workshop for beginners
When: Oct. 3, 2009 10am to 2pm
Where: The Beadlady Craft Cafe, Cubao Expo
Fee: Php1,300

All materials and tools included. You get your own bead kit, with the prettiest supplies.

Small class size (only 4 students) so you get personal instruction.

Lunch also included.


See map to our studio here:
http://beadlady.multiply.com/photos/album/183/The_Beadlady_Craft_Cafe#photo=9

For reservations, email: angelisartbeads@gmail.com

Oktoberfair at Cubao Expo

Start:	Oct 3, '09
Location:	Cubao Expo

You are invited to attend:

OKTOBERFAIR!
October 3, 2009
Saturday, 3pm-12midnight

Bazaar plus concert.

Organized by Ms. Sandy Allan of the Reading Room.

The Ultimate Realistic Miniature Food Workshop CLOSED

Start:	Sep 26, '09 10:00a
Location:	2nd Flr, The Beadlady Craft Cafe, Cubao Expo

Learn the secrets to my yummy trinkets. From simple beginner's projects to advanced realistic projects.

What: Advanced Workshop - Realistic Miniature Food
Fee: P3, 500
When: Sept 26, 2009 (10am to 6pm)
Where: The Beadlady Craft Cafe, Shop 54 Cubao Expo

See map here:
http://beadlady.multiply.com/photos/album/183/The_Beadlady_Craft_Cafe#photo=9

Inclusive of materials, lunch, and snacks.

For reservations email angelisartbeads@gmail.com.

Lampworking: making glass beads

Here's another project I've taken on those months I've gone MIA.

Remember early this year, I posted a hint here that I was working on a new material? hihi. Well I actually started lampworking.

Lampworking is an ancient art form. It is the art of melting glass on a flame, and manipulating it using gravity and tools. It became popular in Murano, Italy in the 14th century.

Early lampworkers melted glass using an oil lamp, thus the term lampworking. Today, it is called flameworking, as we now use a torch.

I bought the glass way back in January 2008, but only got to work on them February 2009. lol.

It's so friggin scary and exciting, it's like my own private roller coaster.

I never thought creating a glass bead could be so complicated. I'm still a long way from creating decent beads.

Anyone else into lampworking? I'd love to exchange notes, I badly need guidance! I suck!

Will blog about this when I have time. (Adding it to the long list of things I need to blog about. When will I blog again, I wonder. sigh)

Before you ask, i'm not selling yet. I'm still waiting for my kiln, so I can anneal the beads properly. Without proper annealing, the glass could break easily. So my beads have been patiently waiting for 7 months.

Watch out for glass cupcakes! :)

Our Awesome Planet feature

The Beadlady Craft Cafe is featured on Our Awesome Planet!

Yay!

http://www.ourawesomeplanet.com/awesome/2009/09/the-bead-lady.html#more

Filigree and settings

Pretty little things at The Beadlady Craft Cafe.

http://beadcafe.multiply.com/photos/album/3/Specialty_products_hard_to_find_supplies

The Bead Bar

Supplies at The Beadlady Cafe.

http://beadcafe.multiply.com/photos/album/5/The_Bead_Bar#

The cupcake "solitaire"

Just wanted to share.

I had so much fun working with silver* today! 

This is the first time I am opening my toolbox after the silver class. Sometimes, it's hard to work alone.  Especially when you have so many questions, no resources available on the internet, and your teacher is in Japan. lol.

So today, a couple of my batchmates and I got together in my still-unfinished studio in Cubao Expo, to try and work on our thesis projects (lol, more like assignments for Level 2 certification, actually).

Here's one of the projects I was able to finish today.



We are required to create a simple ring with stone setting, carving, and oxidizing.  And it should be a perfect size 13. 

I came up with a simple solitaire, but instead of a diamond, I made a teeny tiny cupcake with a synthetic pink stone (cherry) on top.

It sounds and looks so simple, but it took me the entire day to finish a single ring.

I was totally stuck on the design, I couldn't translate my ideas into something tangible, so I resorted to my time-tested favorite.  Sigh, I know, cupcake again??

I promise to do better next time.  In the meantime, I am enjoying my first ever silver cupcake. 




*eco-friendly, recycled silver! from film!

Brass rings

Really tiny, for the pinkie.

Not available online. Only available at the shop.

Price: P150

Fine silver and 22k gold jewelry

Here's one of the million things I did the whole time I was MIA.

I trained under a Japanese artist (along with four other women), and created fine silver and 22k gold jewelry. I am now a certified Art Clay Silver instructor (basics only).

I have no time to teach yet though, as I am currently trying to finish my "thesis" projects, which will be sent to Japan and will undergo judging. Wish me luck! If I pass the judging, I get to teach Certification courses, which will allow me to train other instructors.

Thanks dad, for sponsoring me. labyu. hehe.

More photos, and a blog post soon.