Au Naturel...

Merry-Go-Round!!!!!!

It's Merry time!!!!
This month's question: what do I hope to achieve this year?

There are only two things I REALLY want to achieve this year:
The first is to continue my collaborations with these two lovely people: Isabelle and Chris
As soon as I saw Zaza's mindboggling patient and neat work I thought we could combine our skills into truly unique creations. Zaza bought some of my tutorials and is now well into wire-wrapping and has her own unique creations mixed with her fabulously neat beadwork, and we just started our collaboration with these 2 HUGE rings!!!



Chris works with silver, natural stones and has the most amazing eye for finding truly amazing handmade lampork beads. She regularly checks up on me and what I create, pounces on what takes her fancy and incorporate my work into hers. This is her latest materpiece and it takes my breath away everytime I look at it... Chris has SUCH a gift for making stones and beads look as beautiful as they possibly can, absolutely amazing!!!!



My second goal this year is to keep having fun creating of course, and to go beyond what I have done so far... Now here's the tricky bit... what does it actually mean??? Well, it may mean 'go beyond in size' and I actually have one on-going project with a huge raw amethyst that I want to make into a decorative item... but I also want to progress in wire-wrapping and make something that makes me gawp and say: did I make that??? And subsequently have a big grin on my face... =D

And also, I want to get to grips with Facebook... because, dear me, I am so lost in there, I reckon it's a great marketing tool, but phew... they have not made it simple... Or am I too old for it??? LOL!!!

Please visit the other Merry-Go-Rounders' blogs!! We have 3 new members this month, Kim, Mitsy and Alison (Welcome!!!!), and all direct links to everyone's blog can be found on the sidebar.
Happy reading!!!

Raspberry & Apricot...Framboise & Abricot...

7 pendants in 4 days... 7 pendentifs en 4 jours...

Pour l'adorable Teresa: 7 pendentifs fabriqués en 4 jours... Je n'ai jamais fait autant de créas en si peu de temps...



For lovely Teresa: 7 pendants in 4 days... This is a first, I've never made so much in such little time...

Scandale...Scandal!!

Fabuleuses pépites de cornaline brute, agate noire corsettée, wire couleur champagne...



Fabulous raw carnelian nuggets, corsetted black agate and champagne wire...

Glamour in Neverland... Glamour au Pays Imaginaire

Naughty Tinkerbell, jealous and cunning little fairy, madly in love, puts on an alluring little corset to try and steal Peter's heart from Wendy's clutches...



Clochette, coquine petite fée jalouse et très amoureuse, se pare d'un petit corset très sexy, pour impressionner et essayer d'arracher le coeur Peter des griffes de Wendy l'intruse...

Baby Bond Girl...

My smallest corset pendant to date...

Mon plus petit pendentif corset...

one Night in Neverland...Une Nuit au Pays Imaginaire

Follow Tinkerbell and her fairydust...

Suivez Clochette et sa poussiere d'etoiles...

A pair of small pendants, which totally convinced me of one thing: I absolutely can't make the same thing twice!!!

Deux petits pendentifs qui m'ont convaincu: Je suis incapable de faire 2 fois la meme chose!!!

Sirop d'érable... Maple Syrup...

Une belle bague imposante pour commencer l'année, en perles et pierres naturelles bien entendu!! Avec un joli fil doré dont la couleur rappelle l'or 9 carat, vraiment joli!!

A nice golden cocktail ring to start 2010 in style, with of course natural stones and beads, with a very nice gold coloured artistic wire, that looks like 9 carat gold... A brilliant find from my lovely friend Ayperi, thank you my dear!!!

Safran - Saffron

A little stroll in the spice market... Natural and semi-precious stones...Double-sided pendant.
Une petite balade au marché des épices... Pierres naturelles et semi-précieuses... réversible...

Ball Pool - La Piscine à Balles

J’adore les breloques en 3D, et ce petit minou est totalement adorable ! Cela fait un petit moment que ça me démangeait de le monter en bague… et JE SAIS que cette bague est quasi importable, JE SAIS qu’elle peut éborgner quelqu’un d’un geste malheureux, et JE SAIS que c’est une bague de dingue, mais que voulez-vous, on ne se refait pas…



Alors voici un petit chat qui s'étiiiiire de plaisir au milieu de sa piscine à balles...



I love 3D charms, and this cat is no exception… I have been itching to put it on a ring, and I KNOW it’s not practical, I KNOW you could take someone’s eye out with it, I KNOW that it’s complete madness, BUT I absolutely love it!!!



So here's a little cat streeeeetching with pleasure in the middle of his very own ball pool...

Le Travail d'Armelle

Armelle, portraitiste de talent hyper sympa qui plus est, a attrappé le virus du wrapping (Supeeeeeeeer!!!). Voici son premier coeur (tutoriel 3), superbe!! Bravo!!

Le Danseur - The Dancer

Pendentif/pendant:





Bague/Cocktail ring: