vendredi 7 août 2009

The Royal Blue - Marie-Antoinette

Marie Antoinette inspired the “Royal Blue” choker designed and presented here. The inspiration she offered for this beaded jewelry design initially came from her genuine warmth and caring attitude toward others. She challenged aristocracy’s rigidity and formality, and adhered to her own moral values, including barring aristocrats involved in adulterous affairs.

Inspired by her character, I conducted a little further research discovering just how controversial her life was, and I was further inspired by her love of the fine arts, dance, and fashion. A great deal can be said about her wardrobe and her sense of aesthetics, however, the most interesting fact is that her genuineness had a simplicity to it that brought a greater degree of modesty to the elaborate fashions of France toward the end of the 1700’s.

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vendredi 24 juillet 2009

Pearls : The Queen of Gems


I have a life-long love affair with pearls. I love them all; all
shapes, sizes, forms, and colors, and of course I prefer the natural
over the synthetic ones. Pearls being all-time classics have adorned
fashion icons year-after-year. Known as “The Queen of Gems,” the pearl
symbolises wisdom and faith; which we can all use from time-to-time,
dont you think? LOL! Well, I am talking for myself anyway, and I
surely can!

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lundi 6 juillet 2009

My work is exposed at Aureole

I am so happy guys! If you are the Montreal area right now you can see my work at Aureole!

310 St Luc BL
St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, QC J2W 2M6
(450) 359-4684

I'll be posting some pictures soon!

And as usual on my Etsy shop.

vendredi 3 juillet 2009

Work in progress...


Beadworking and finding time to promote your work is a challenge! With all the avenues that are existing pertaining to social media networking to make you visible on the internet can become really time consuming and make you lose track of your goal.

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samedi 30 mai 2009

The Bead Trade


Hello Folks!

I just created a new group on Facebook : Bead Trade.

It's for member of the beadworkers community only. We will be trading our "sleeping beads"!

Join in and let's see how this goes!

Annie
XOXO

What you said about your favorite color - Part 2


Hey everyone!

Part 2 of the favorite color is online! Check it out! Some beautiful artworks again! This painting is from Cath Sheard. She explains in very interesting details why orange is her favorite!

Thanks for your participation!

Kindly,
Annie
XOXO

vendredi 29 mai 2009

What you said about your favorite color - Part 1

Hey everyone!


I've asked you what is your favorite color. I got some pretty amazing input!


The picture here is from Jonathan Houle. I guess you understand that he is into green!



Click here to see what he had to say about it as well as others feedbacks!



Stay tuned for Part 2 and thank you all for your participation!