On the road to ... golden

to the golden.

I made around 50 beaded fallen leaves by wire beading, I love this project - the fall color, the process of blending and finally the result.

I finish all my beadwork on this mat, with my favourite chocolate cubes (Oh no, I'm getting fat!)

A pair of hot balloons.

Acorns & mushrooms,

Drunk with a few cups of beer and wine, also the pears.

Everything golden.

Linking the leaves up with "c" shape rings.

Look at the colors!

Almost finish. It is going to attached with a golden chains...

Processing, processing & keep going.

After taken a short break for 3 days, I have to blog about some latest beading projects. Here we are the long waited one- 50 pieces of beaded falling leaves! I have started making them from the early of September, and keep beading cupcake rings, fruits, florals...bla bla bla. Now is the time to finish before the autumn has gone. There will be necklaces, bracelets, statement necklaces & earrings all made by this fallen leaves.

Hope you all enjoy this touch of fall season.

經過小休3天，我要為上星期的串珠項目打報告了。費盡我心血的它們就是......50片串珠落葉！從9月初開始串葉子，期間又要串 cupcake戒指，水果，花卉圖案等等等等。現在是時候了，在中秋之前必須辦妥! 將有項鍊，手鍊，項鍊和耳環全都是由這些落葉組成的。

希望大家喜歡這種淡淡的金秋時節。

Panda, cat, violin, roses: new craft findings 深水埗新貨入荷

Just finished my regular shopping in Sham Shui Po (a craft supply district in Hong Kong) this monday and really bought something not glass beads or beading wire......I bought some lovely new findings which I love in the first sight and I think they are inspiring too! Some of them has caught me inspired and I just can't wait to realize some new beadwork~let's share my ideas:

1. Panda wooden piece - Its face looks quite masculine but I would like it as a BRIDE, yea, I will print its lips and, how about make her a lacy wedding gown?

2. Polymer clay rose beads in reddish - the elements to my beaded cupcake ring.

3. Browish zebra print wooden pieces - It was intially designed as pendant/earring dangles, but I foudn it looks pretty chic as a round table for displaying my miniature food.

4. Black cat wooden piece - I love this cat face, it looks so cunning...

5. volin wooden pieces - I will make a bead embroidered cat sitting on this volin, maybe a lined cat in monotone, simply matching with the texture of this volin piece.

6. leather bracelet - I am still thinking how to design a girly / sweet / vintage / punk bracelet by these leather strips. We do you think? Any idea please leave a comment ~~~

First encounter to Elsa Schiarapelli 夏帕的第一次接觸

Untitled (Elsa Schiaparelli)
Man Ray

ca. 1933

photograph | gelatin silver print

Source

 緣起

前天隨性地看一下本地的時裝雜誌，當中記述一段時裝界歷史時，提及到 Coco Chanel 生前跟一位意大利來的女設計師很不和，這時就看到她那對頭的名字可長啊─ Elsa Schiarapeli，於是我的好奇心就來了：真想看 Coco Chanel 的反面會是怎麼樣的！

Chanel 的粉絲是不會明白我的心情的，因為說實在，我從少就是愛 Prada 的人。我愛 Prada 用筆大膽，不論布料、剪裁、色彩、圖案，她從來都不怕浮誇；或許她的時裝不討好你的身材，但是論美學就最具欣賞價值，用美麗一點的詞語說，就是富有藝術美囉。

一看見這位神級意大利女子 Elsa Schiarapeli 的設計，立時為之一振，心裡高呼：「我果然只喜歡搞怪的！」哈哈，沒所謂，只要有這些美麗的怪東西存在，我就好快樂了。

她的搞怪

在網上搬集了一些她的作品：

這一頂經典的高跟鞋帽是她的手筆。

差不多一個世紀後的今天，如此大的蒼蠅刺繡紋樣放在外套的斜肩位置，依然前衛、搞怪而不入大眾之流。

昆蟲項圈 和左下角那貼滿郵票的裙子真是我那杯茶！

你能出那些是 Prada 的，那些是 Schiarapelli 的？

Telephone compact, 1935

Pine cone choker, 1939

 

這項圈有松果吊飾之餘，亮點是那些超可愛的蝴蝶結！

這個可有點 Verdusa 的味道了。(Ostrich Clips, 1938)

這小丑造像的心口針，在1980年代曾經被無限復刻的，現在一些古著還可以發現它的

剛剛 MMOA 有 Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations 的展覽，兩位意大利美女用時裝作藝術對談 (按圖進入官網)

Exhibition of two italian beauties' fashion conversation has launched in MMOA currently.

 明天我再講她的 Circus Collection 和什麼是 Naïf Chic 吧。

Best lover: raspberry & chocolate

This is a pair of earrings I made in August, but its charm will not be affected no matter what season we have!
As I said, red color and chocolate are my all time favourite, then I have no reason to lose my passion to any dessert of raspberry & chocolate. 

The tart is in 1cm*1.5cm, which is quite tiny as a dangle & very tiny as a beadwork, yea~ I am obsessed to tiny things.

I have listed this earrings in Etsy first, because I am too tired to post another listing on dawanda now, haha (I'm sooo sleepy that I type "Raspberry Tart for your cars" instead of "Raspberry Tart for your ears" on facebook page. HAHHAAAA

Sweet dream, goodnight~

Exclusive 20% discount to Etsy admirers, facebook fans & blog fans!

Everybody love discounts!
Here's the present of September I bring to every supporters of my beaded jewelry...

All 20% discount in  http://bigbabybakery.etsy.com

Coupon code: BIGBABYSEPT2012 (valid til the end of Sept)

If you have an account in Etsy , you can enjoy lots of of pleasure in shopping handmade products online. I have a online shop here, trying to sell some of my handmade beadwork.

How to enjoy the discount:
You will find a "coupon code" field at the Checkout, just key-in the code I given, the 20% discount will be applied to all of your purchase in my shop.

So here we are~ if you find some of my beadwork here you love, please visit my Etsy shop to view more of them.

I had a long friday & now it's 2am here, time to sleep! Good night, and goodbye August. haha~

我想，誰都喜歡折扣吧！
所以我帶給每個 Big Baby Bakery 串珠手作粉絲的九月禮物是...  

全店八折，只限我的Etsy網店 >>>  http://bigbabybakery.etsy.com

優惠券代碼：BIGBABYSEPT2012 (效期至9月最後一天)

如果你有Etsy帳戶，您就可以在網上欣賞和購買來自世界各地的手工製品！

好了，如何享受這折扣呢？步驟超簡單：

當你把我的產品放進購物車 (謝謝啊 >3< ) 在結賬時，你會發現 Coupon Code 一欄，就輸入我上述的代碼號，你買多少，都是打八折的！！要注意的是郵費不打折的~

OK, 就這樣，如果你看這裡有些串珠飾物你有興趣的話，儘管到我在 Etsy的網店看看啦，或者那個你喜歡改它的顏色呀、尺寸啦，或者你心裡有個想法想客製一件飾物的話，也很歡迎你給我留言的 :D

今天真是個超長的星期五...現在是02點了，要睡覺囉！晚安，再見八月。哈哈〜