Showing posts with label blog hop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog hop. Show all posts

Saturday, February 2, 2013

New Website = New blog page

Hi Everyone,
It has been a while since I posted here. At the beginning of January I began blogging from my website. I invite you to join me at www.emakdesigns.com/blog.

 There is lots of beads, jewelry and fun happenings going on so I hope you will join me.

 A 52 week exploration in photography, Focusing on Life. Sally Rusik at The Studio Sublime is hosting a wonderfully inspiring word prompt each week. All the the participants are challenged to take this prompt and translate it into a photograph. I just love the positive thoughts this challenge leads to all week long as we ponder Sally's prompts.

A Wellness Words Jewelry Challenge hosted by Tracy Statler of Make Bracelets.


Lisa Lodge is hosting a jewelry challenge over at Pine Ridge Treasures. 


The 7th Annual Bead Soup Blog Party.


Erin Prias-Hintz of Treasures Found is hosting the Challenge of Music.


I am so excited to share that my work was published in Bead Trends Magazine February 2013! 


All this and it is only the first quarter of the year. I'm sure there will be much more goodness happening. So jump on over to my new blog and follow me.

Thanks for visiting. See you at www.emakdesigns.com/blog.
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Friday, November 30, 2012

The Challenge of Color - Earth as Art

I joined the challenge this year. Erin Pais-Hintz of Treasures Found and Brandi Hussey of BrandiGirlBlog are hosting the 3rd Annual Challenge of Color.

The Earth As Art image gallery is a group of over 120 pictures taken from the Landsat series of Earth observation satellites since 1972. These pictures of the unique features of our beautiful planet are a vital resource for understanding scientific issues related to land use and natural resources. I encourage you to check out these photos. They are beautiful images and so inspiring!

 Each participant was assigned two color palettes from the Earth as Art images. I was given these two color palettes to choose from. 
A little background on the Dardzha Monster:  Looking like a monstrous ogre with something gooey in its mouth, the Dardzha Peninsula in western Turkmenistan lies among the shallow coastal terraces of the Caspian Sea. Strong winds create huge sand dunes near the water, some of which are partly submerged. Further inland, the dunes transition to low sand plains.
Background on the Dasht-E Kevir: The Dasht-e Kevir, or Great Salt Desert, is the largest desert in Iran. It is a primarily uninhabited wasteland, composed of mud and salt marshes covered with crusts of salt that protect the meager moisture from completely evaporating.

I committed to working the Dardzha Monster palette. I found this choice to be my challenge. I thought and thought, how could I design a lampwork bead in this color scheme. I had some ideas and got to the torch.


Round 1 of beads. I was not satisfied with what I was coming up with. The colors were proving to be a real challenge for me to create beads with. I had made a few more of the spacer beads. They seem to have disappeared from my work bench for the moment so they missed the photo shoot.
I know I committed to the Dardzha color scheme but it just wasn't working for me. So I thought I would try the Dasht E Kevir color scheme.



These beads are from the second round at the torch. I was seeing blues and off whites in the Dasht photo. Then I thought earth and nuggets. So I created nugget shaped beads as well as round beads.
It all looked good going into the kiln but once the kiln had cooled I was disappointed. Although I like the beads there is too much blue in these. Again not the look I had in mind.


Round 3 and I nailed it! (if I am allowed to say so myself). Okay, finally, beads I can work with. Immediately the ideas for a finished jewelry design began to  take shape.






 This is a blog hop. I am sure you will want to check out what all the participants  created based on the images they were assigned. We were given some great inspiration photos. I can't wait to see what everyone has come up with!

Ema Kilroy http://emakaye.blogspot.com ***** you are here *****

Thanks for joining me. As always you can visit my Etsy shop to find lampwork beads, metal components and finished jewelry at Ema K Designs.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Bead Soup Blog Party Summer 2012

Lori Anderson of Pretty Things is hosting a special summertime Bead Soup. This round of Bead Soup is special because, there are so many wonderful bead makers and jewelry designers that love to participate, Lori has spread out the fun with three different reveal dates, July 28th, August 11th and August 25th. 


The sign ups took place back in June and of course I signed up, got busy with life and promptly forgot all about it. That is until I received an email from Lori telling me who my partner would be for this swap.


Meet my partner, Melissa Meman. Melissa has so many beautiful pieces in her Etsy shop, Melismatic Art Jewlery, I had a difficult time deciding which piece I would feature here. 



In getting to know Melissa I have discovered she is a woman of many talents. The beautiful earrings pictured above were created using a technique I have dabbled in recently, torch firing metals coated with enamels. I can certainly say Melissa's results are much pretty than mine. I visited Melissa's blog and found out she has also been working with metals. I very much like what I see!!! Aren't these pieces gorgeous?




You can find out more about Melissa and her wonderful work by joining Melismatic Art Jewelry on Facebook. 

Melissa and I have sent each other our own jewelry components. Once I am sure she has received her package I will share with you what I sent to her and what she sent to me. I wouldn't want to ruin her surprise. Stay tuned. We will be revealing our jewelry designs on August 11th. 

You can also visit Lori's blog to find a list of all the 6th Bead Soup participants.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Big Reveals this Week

This week is an exciting one. I joined a couple of challenges and the reveal dates for both challenges are this week!

The first is the The Challenge of Music hosted by Erin Prais-Hintz. The date for this challenge and blog hop is leap day, February 29th. Find more info on The Challenge of Music on Erin's blog.

The second challenge is Bead Soup hosted by Lori Anderson. The reveal date for Bead Soup is March 3rd.
To join in all the blog hopping fun you can visit Lori's Bead Soup blog.

There will be lots of great blog reading and beautiful creations revealed for both of these. I hope you can join us and have some fun with the participants. Some people are adding giveaways to their reveals. You won't want to miss it.

Here is a sneak peak of tomorrows reveal......
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