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FREE BEADING TUTORIAL - "Chillies" Earrings

These beadwoven earrings are made with 2 hole SuperDuo beads, 11/0 Japanese seed beads and big spike beads. 

The detailed Beading Tutorial with photos and text can be downloaded HERE.

FREE BEADING TUTORIAL: Good Fortune Earrings

Good Fortune Earrings

Free Beading Tutorial

An original BeadedTreasury Design (© 2015 Iulia Postica. All rights reserved). This pattern is for personal use and small group teaching. It cannot be sold, republished (online and off-line), redistributed, translated without permission, or edited in any way – in part or in whole. Please always credit me as a designer. Thank you!

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Techniques

Bead weaving

Right angle weave

Netting stitch

Project Level

Intermediate

Materials

Free Beading Pattern - Lacy Links Bracelet

I have great news for you! A new Free Beading Pattern which I designed for Starman TrendSetters has just been published on their blog. 

Quick and easy to make bracelet with CzechMates Crescent beads and Toho Demi Round beads.

"Lacy Links" Bracelet can be downloaded HERE.

Enjoy beading and have a wonderful week! 

Iulia

Bezelling natural stones

Different earrings with bezelled natural stones using the netting stitch.

Earrings with round coral beads.

For these earrings I used natural turquoise flat oval beads.

In these earrings were used natural jasper round coin beads.

Soapmaking - new hobby of mine

I want to share with you a new passion I made for soapmaking. This hobby is rather new: I made my first soap last summer and since then I've been hooked on it! I love making my own natural soaps, I love using them, but what I love most is offering them as gifts to my family and friends! 

It took me about a year before I started making soaps since the moment I felt I wanted to do this. It was not easy to begin because there is a chemical process involved and certain safety measures that should be taken, lots of reading about the soapmaking process, which incredients should be used and which tools are needed. All this took a year, to gather all the ingredients, knowledge and courage to get started. Which I did! :)

My all time favorite soap is the sea salt bar. 

I also experimented a mixed sea salt and pink Himalayan salt bar. I turned a bit more scrubby than I expected because the pink Himalayan salt does not grind so finely as the sea salt, but it was a good soap with scrubbing effect which I loved. And it looked wonderful: half white, half pink rose. 

The soap with marigold infused olive oil is a great antiseptic soap. It can also be used on babies as it is a soft non allergic soap. 

I am always trying to find a natural way to color my soaps. Pink clay colors the soap in soft pink to dark brown. And eucaliptus leaf excract makes the soap green.

I also make my own solid shampoo bar with nettle and green clay (the greenish soap in the foreground of the picture bellow).

I'm very happy with this new activity of mine: all natural, fun, useful and I always have gifts for everyone! :)

Free Beading Tutorial - BLOSSOM

BLOSSOM Bracelet and Earrings 

This Free Beading Tutorial can be accessed HERE.

For the beadwoven bracelet and earrings set you will need:

2-hole Kheops Par Puca beads
2-hole MiniDuo beads
18/seed beads
11/0 seed beads
6mm jump rings

4mm jump rings

ear wires
magnetic clasp  
size B beading thread

There's a lot of place for creativity when it comes to the earrings. The dangles might be some leaf charms as in the example above, big firepolished beads (see below) or anything else you wish.  

You can chose to make this beaded set of jewelry in the three colorways I made or you can chose your own colors from the thousands of color palettes.

This beading pattern is for personal use. You can sell finished bracelets and earrings, but please mention that you got the pattern from www.BeadedTreasury.com.

More free turorials on my blog HERE.

All the best,

Iulia

Protect Me Bracelet by TrendSetter Iulia Postica

I have great news! Finally my bracelet which I designed for Starman TrendSetters is available in local shops in different countries as FREE PATTERN.

Starman is providing FREE Patterns of the Month to bead retailers. These patterns are available in printed form only. 

"Protect Me" bracelet features brand new beads - 3-hole Beam Beads and 2-hole Cabochon Beads.

Here is the complete list of materials needed to complete the bracelet.

53 CzechMates Beam Beads
6 CzechMates Cabochon Beads
4 Grams 11/0 Seed Beads
2 Jump Rings
TOHO One-G Thread
Clasp of Choice

The bracelet measures approximately 7 1/8" without clasp. Each segment is approximately 1 1/4" long. Minor adjustments to the length can be made with the seed beads at the clasp ends.

Check the local bead shop for your free copy of the beading pattern.

Here are only a few shop links where free printed copies of my "Protect Me" beading pattern are available: AuraCrystals (USA); Baubles&Beads (USA); BeadAndGlass (USA); BeadPassionStudio (USA); FusionBeads (USA);  PotomacBeadCompany (USA);  RedPandaBeads (USA);  RobinsBeads (UK); TheHalfMoonBeadShop (UK); FruPärla (Sweden) etc. There you can also purchase the new bead shapes to make the bracelet.

Enjoy beading!

Iulia

Beaded Beads

I made order in my stash of goodies and found some wood disc beads which I probably had since forever. Now I have a little project in mind for these beaded beads. I used Czech seed beads for the beadwork which I also have a lot in my boxes and decided to make use of it.

What a joy was making them and can't wait to see the finished pieces of jewelry! 

Collection of earrings

I'be been working on earrings lately. Bought some Swarovski rivoli and wove around them with different beads.

In the first pair were used 15/0 seed beads and Superduo beads.

In the second pair were used 11/0 and 15/0 seed beads and fire polished beads.

In the third pair were used 15/0 seed beads and Rose Petal beads.

The earrings were made for a fair I attended a few days ago. Also, I made a few metalwork and wirework pieces which can be seen on the earring stand from the show. Working with copper and brass was a little experiment of mine which I enjoyed a lot! 

Free Beading Tutorial - "Starlet"

STARLET Earrings 

STARLET Earrings Free Tutorial can be accessed HERE.

For this beading project you will need the following materials:

This tutorial is for personal use. You can sell finished earrings, but please mention that you got the pattern from www.BeadedTreasury.com