This will be updated every month when the next theme will be selected.

1. Two colours

Basic beads, basic ideas. Everything old in the hopes of finding something new.

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2. Metallic clays

Illusions and different kinds of ideas playing with both mica effects and colours.

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3. Playing with extruder

Beads made with the help of extruder.

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I am also asking for ideas for monthly bead challenge headings. I have about 5 I intend to use somewhere along the road, but if you have suggestions or wishes please comment – We would love to hear from you.Similar Posts:

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1. At least every week but not more than one per day I’ll publish new texture.
2. Each texture is created on wood.
3. Each texture is created on 5×7,5 cm (2×3″) piece of wood.
4. I may use whatever method to create texture.
5. These are samples and they don’t have to be perfect.

Why?

I love textures and what they can add (or take) to piece. I have and have had amazing amount of ideas but I keep forgetting them. Also it would be really helpful to be able to see textures while desiding what to use in a particular case and even put different textures side by side and match them together or perhaps pick the best one. Or just enjoy them. Because I’m going to put magnets on back of the texture blanks so that I can attach or remove them easily from metal plate on the wall.Similar Posts:

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Here are my rules for myself:

1. Every month has a theme to be followed. When month starts the theme should be announced.

2. The beads should all be somewhat different technically.

3. The beads do not have to be perfect. The ideas are more important than results. Try to make at least 1/3 of beads sketchbook quality rather than finished.

4. Bead is any reasonably sized object with a hole.

5. Not all beads need to published here, and there is no pressure to have “daily bead” published. How ever if there are enough beads they will be published one a day.

6. I can change rules any time.

Why am I doing this?

I have been making jewellery for years but never really concentrated solely on beads as I make whatever is needed for design. I need simple examples for teaching. I need to study simplicity more. There are tons of techniques available in the literature and the net, how ever I feel the simplest things and themes are somewhat unstudied. There must be lots of new ways to do old things and probably some new ideas rise from repeating the old ones. I need to find a project that keeps me on working and discovering – I need to concentrate on something for a year and I am not much of a sketchbook keeper really. I need to do it (at least partly) publically to ensure myself that I just don’t stop before getting the work done.

What I hope to achieve?

Maybe enough ideas and material to publish instructions for beads in some form. I hope the project inspires others to study similar ideas along with me. I hope to make at least 12 necklaces with 12 different themes. I hope this project will inspire someone else and give visual glossary of ideas for other people.
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