Sunstone - aventurescence feldspar
Fashion Colorworks 2015 Awards
On dragon wings - Denisa Kangas
Chamomiles in winter - E. Vanyukova
Beaders Best Art Fair 2015
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Sunstone - aventurescence feldsparSunstone is a kind of translucent to transparent feldspar exhibiting bright metallic flashes when light interacts with tiny plate-like mineral inclusions within the stone. A brilliant spangled appearance when sunstone is viewed from certain directions has led to its use as a gemstone. The optical effect appears to be due to reflections from inclusions of red copper. These inclusions give the stone an appearance something like that of aventurine, hence sunstone is known also as "aventurine-feldspar." The optical effect called "shiller" and the color in Oregon sunstone is due to copper. The middle part of this crystal sparkles, and usually the color is darkest in the middle and becomes lighter toward the outer edges. Sunstone was not common until recently. It has been found in Southern Norway, where masses of the sunstone occur embedded in a vein of quartz. Other locations include Lake Baikal area in Siberia, Australia, Canada, China, Congo, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and several United States localities: in Pennsylvania, Oregon, North Carolina, Virginia. Sunstone is the official gemstone of Oregon. Sunstone has been known for at least a few hundred years: sunstone deposits near Lake Baikal in Russia were mined in the early 1800s, and deposits in southern Norway were mined in the late 1800s. The sunstone deposits of Oregon were discovered by Native Americans who collected the gems, treasured them, traded them widely and sometimes buried their dead with a small bag of stones. Sunstone is also known as "heliolite" and more commonly "aventurescent feldspar." It is cut into cabochons, beads, and small sculptures. The most transparent pieces are used to produce faceted stones. Sunstone is popular with innovative jewelry designers and is especially popular in the geographic areas where it is commercially mined. It is not a gemstone that is seen in every jewelry store, and many jewelry buyers have never witnessed its aventurescence. However, once a person is given a demonstration of sunstone's aventurescence, they often want to try it and are fascinated. Some artisans use sunstone for small carvings and sculptures. Material up to three inches in size has been found and some of these large stones are used for carving. Sunstone beads are also popular. As a bead, sunstone displays aventurescence from both sides of the included copper platelets. |
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Fashion Colorworks 2015 Awards
Main contest awards are:
• Best in Contest Winner and Runner-up Awards;
OktaBeads.eu
is sponsoring Best in Contest Winner and Runner-up Awards
(The Best in Contest Winner and Runner-up are chosen from
the first-prize winners):
• 1, 2 and 3 Place Awards in each category; • People's Choice Award; • Best Use of Color Award.
• Best in Contest Winner - gift certificate by $200;
MIYUKI Co.,Ltd.
is sponsoring Seed Bead Jewelry category:
• Runner-up Best in Contest - gift certificate by $100.
• 1 Place Winner - a prize worth $150;
Preciosa Ornela
is sponsoring Finished Jewelry category:
• 2 Place Winner - a prize worth $100; • 3 Place Winner - a prize worth $50.
• 1 Place Winner - a prize worth $150;
Preciosa Ornela
is sponsoring Seed Bead Objects category:
• 2 Place Winner - a prize worth $100; • 3 Place Winner - a prize worth $50.
• 1 Place Winner - a prize worth $150;
Preciosa Ornela
is sponsoring People's Choice Award worth $100.
All 30 beadwork finalists are open for online voting for
People's Choice Award Winner.
• 2 Place Winner - a prize worth $100; • 3 Place Winner - a prize worth $50. Best Use of Color Award Winner receives Beads Direct UK prize "Mystery Bead Hamper" worth £70. Best Use of Color Award Winner will be determined among all 30 beadwork finalists. Nominees for all special prizes are selected out from entries not selected for the main contest awards; the winners are selected by award sponsors. MIYUKI Co.,Ltd. is sponsoring Best Use of MIYUKI Tila and Half Tila prize worth $150. Nominees for the prize must be NOT less than 25-30 percent Miyuki Tila and Half Tila Beads. Preciosa Ornela is sponsoring Best Use of PRECIOSA Traditional Czech Beads prize. Nominees for the prize must be NOT less than 50 percent Traditional Czech Beads. Preciosa Ornela is sponsoring special prizes:
• Best Newbie;
Perlen Poesie
Magazine
is sponsoring three "Perlen Poesie Pick" prizes - free annual
subscriptions to Perlen Poesie Magazine, as well as five "consolation"
prizes - a single issue of Perlen Poesie Magazine.
• Best Mini; • Most Original. All category winners will be featured in the monthly MyLovelyBeads.com e-Newsletter. The winners of People's Choice and Best Use of Color Awards and special prizes may also be featured in the newsletter.
Fashion Colorworks 2015 rules
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On dragon wingsToday we have another artist from the Czech Republic - Denisa Kangas. Born in the city of Hradec Kralove, that is about 100 kilometers from Jablonec nad Nisou, the "capital city of Czech beads", she still lives there with her family. No wonder that Denisa fell in love with beads and became a jewelry designer. Her mostly abstract beadworks, both in beadweaving and embroidery, are valued by many. So, we also like them and hope you will too! Denisa says, "I have always loved art and music, I play the piano and enjoy drawing and painting. And even though the Czech Republic is known for being the "bead kingdom", I was first introduced to beading in 2009, while visiting my wonderful mother-in-law Lana in the United States. Our daughter was then just eight months old and caring for her didn't leave me with much time to draw and paint. I needed something creative to do, something that I could put aside when my daughter needed me and then pick up again later. Lana was enjoying doing beadwork herself and suggested that I might like it too. I was very excited about giving it a try! So we went shopping in the local bead store and I bought my first stash of beads, needles, fireline, mats, and books for learning the basic stitches. I have been beading ever since and the passing of time has just made me even more excited about working with beautiful beads. I'm afraid I have become a beadaholic, I bead as often as my busy life allows, and I'm looking forward to many more beading adventures in the future. I love shopping for beads and I have to admit that I have more beads than I could possibly use in my lifetime. But of course that doesn't stop me from buying more! My stock consists mostly of seed beads in my favorite colors; purple, teal, turquoise, copper and gray. There are only a few baggies of yellow and pink in case I want to challenge myself by working with colors I don't normally use. Participating in the Fashion Colorworks Contest gives me the opportunity to work outside of my color comfort zone. I was unable to submit my entry last year because of difficulties in coordinating my schedule with my co-author and beading soul mate, Lea Palickova. I really love Lea's work and style and I look forward to working with her more in the future..."
Full article by Denisa Kangas
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Chamomiles in middle of winterThe Muscovite Elena Vanyukova literally lives in art. She is a certified musician, violinist, and a painter, and has tried many kind of crafts. She has been to many countries from the USA to India on business and everywhere she learned local culture and received inspiration. Giving a try to many bead techniques, Elena creates very nice jewelry and every piece could be her signature one. Welcome to our newsletter, Elena! Elena says, "I loved to draw and mold out of clay. Well, of course, I've been doing crafts - sewing, knitting, gluing some things out of paper. At the time, even the question arose - what to do in life. Those teachers who were engaged in drawing with me, pulled me to art school. My teachers in the music school were sure that I would be a musician. As a result, the music overpowered. And so, I am a certified musician, violinist, however, being out of practice for a long time. Playing music is a daily exercise, and life was such that I had to work a lot in different countries, and I didn't have the possibility of playing music seriously. I consider the Gnessin State Musical College my main professional musical school. And although I graduated from the Pedagogical Institute as a music teacher later, Gnessin College left my principal and loved source of education. The only advantage of the institute was that it had the Department of Social Professions where I attended a course of painting and drawing. After graduation, the question arose of where to work. And where I could go with my 1.5 year old son, if not to the kindergarten as a musician? My job was really creative! How many my own event scenarios in verse were written, how many children's costumes were sewn, I'm not talking about decorations! I even had to go on courses and learn how to make paper flowers because I needed chamomiles for one of the child performances. All this happiness lasted until my family (by that time I already had two sons) left Russia for a business trip to America. That ended my creative work for many years. While there, I sewed costumes for my children for the holidays and they looked so handsome in my clothes! At that time I didn't know anything about beads and even could not imagine that ever beads would become everything to me and fully take my soul..."
Full article by Elena Vanyukova
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Beaders Best Art Fair 2015The fifth Beaders Best Bead Art Fair will take place on August 21-23, 2015 in Hamburg, Germany (Google map). Do you love handmade jewelry? There will be a wealth of beads and other materials exhibited: the smallest seed beads, lampwork, ceramic and sparkling crystal beads, fine fasteners, findings and accessories, tools, instructions and books, and kits as well as finished pieces complete the offerings. The entire assortment is of particularly good quality. Come to an extraordinary fair! The show schedule includes intensive jewelry making program, the classes will be taught by internationally recognized bead artists: Zoya Gutina, Adele Rogers Recklies, Larissa Novak, Isabella Lam, Monica Vinci, Elena Markovski, Fran Griffith, Nadya Gerber, Jolanda Violante, Patty McCourt, Galina Baer, Natalija Bekic, Nadja Muller, Laura Giusti, Olga Haserodt, Heike Becker, Swietlana Karimowa, Helena Tang-Lim, Julia Bachmayer, Loredana Ferrari, Caro Rzepka and other artists.
The workshop price includes the kit, and the kit includes all materials and findings needed for the workshop, and tutorial (patterns with instructions). Anybody who doesn't finish his work on site will be able to finish it at home.
Workshop "Sleeping Dryad Necklace"
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Upcoming eventsExtraordinary Beads Exhibition
January 5 - March 1, 2015 Artist: Zoya Gutina • Admission: Free • Info: 804-261-2787 The Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen offers residents and visitors in the metropolitan Richmond region an unparalleled opportunity to experience the arts, entertain new ideas, develop a new talent, and experience first-hand, all the best this community has to offer. |
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