Refurbished website

 I have decided to completely refurbish my website https://craftcove.weebly.com/

It is still being done as we speak

I will no longer sell directly from there. It will become a gallery of items I have made. Both sold and not sold

I'm too eager to make new things, but not so much the admin side, so this will simplify things a bit. 

To buy anything, go straight to https://madeit.com.au/collections/craft-cove you can buy many of my items from there, or you can just contact me through the contact page, or by emailing craftcove@gmail.com. 

You can also request an item to be uploaded to madeit, and bought from there, if you feel more comfortable that way

I'm happy to make to order if it's no longer available, although many things are one-offs, I can often make something similar

I will still take international orders, but you will need to contact me for postage costs

So to reiterate: go over to https://craftcove.weebly.com/ for a showcase of what I can do

And go to https://madeit.com.au/collections/craft-cove for some items ready to be sold. Or email me

 

Spring Sale

Celebrate Spring in Australia!

Spring is my favourite season, today is the first day of spring and it's such a lovely sunny morning.

To celebrate I'm having a sale through all of the month.

Everything is half price in my Artfire shop.  This includes patterns.

In stock items only. Not including custom orders.

As you know there's a wide range of handcrafted items including wire wrapping and wire work, crochet, chainmail, beaded flowers, 3d ornaments, and much more.

http://CraftCove.artfire.com

Now on Artfire

I've decided to re-open my Artfire shop.

I'll be listing a large variety of things there.  Including beaded flowers: 

chainmail: 

3d charms: 

beadweaving: 

And much more

You can find them at: Craft Cove at Artfire

I also have the Artfire kiosk on my facebook page

With this app, you can buy directly from my facebook page without even leaving facebook, you can shop for items and checkout through ArtFire.com.  No account is needed  and you get an Encrypted Secure Checkout.

There is also a rapid cart option at the top of this blog, which works in much the same way.

There is currently a 15% discount on everything as I list them, until further notice.

Squidoo lenses

I've created some new squidoo lenses.

http://www.squidoo.com/craftcove
http://www.squidoo.com/hair-fascinators
http://www.squidoo.com/free-star-tutorial

http://www.squidoo.com/beginners-jewellery-making-
http://www.squidoo.com/free-beaded-flower-tutorial
http://www.squidoo.com/beaded-wedding-flowers

Some people seem to like squidoo more than other places.  This is for you

BEADED FLOWERS - NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT

crystal bouquet

Don’t let allergies stop you from having your favourite flowers on your wedding day. Beaded flowers can be made to resemble almost any real flower seen in nature, or can be total fantasy and unique. They can even be made in to different sizes to that seen in nature. But being made of wire and beads, there is no pollen to be allergic to. There’ll be none of the sneezing, itchy eyes, or asthma attacks to spoil your special day.

beaded rose bud

Beaded flowers can be made from many different types of weaves. The most common ones are either the French Beading method, or the Victorian Beaded method. Both use wire for assembling the petals, but Victorian is usually made with horizontal rows of beads, whereas French is made with the rows going vertically around the central vertical row. Both methods are then joined to a wire stem, and is then carefully wrapped in florists tape.

beaded fuchsia

The flowers can be made into anything from table arrangements and centrepieces, to bridal bouquets and bridesmaids bouquets, and even made as wedding favours.

beaded wedding bouquet

The other great thing about beaded flowers, is that they can last a lifetime. Making them a lasting keepsake in memory of your wedding day.

beaded daisy

Written by Jenny Lawson

From Craft Cove
http://craftcove.weebly.com

And Flower Cove
http://flowercove.weebly.com

Everything moved

I've finally finished moving all of Craft Cove from the freewebs site to the weebly site

So now you can find all the jewellery, gifts and ornaments at http:craftcove.weebly.com

and all the beaded flowers, and hair accessories at http://flowercove.weebly.com

Flowers for Valentines Day

beaded flower

Flowers are always a great gift for Valentines Day.

With beaded flowers they never die or go brown, but can last a lifetime.

beaded fuchsia

Here is a small sample of some of mine.

beaded rose bud

beaded carnation

french beaded flower

Crystal Bouquet

crystal bouquet

I've now finished the crystal bouquet I was making. It was a lot of work with the super long stems that then had to be bent upwards. But I think it looks great.

crystal bouquet handle

I've made it with 200 stems, but even more would be great.


This bouquet is available to buy from my website: Flower Cove

Custom orders are also available

Latest Beaded Wedding Bouquet

beaded wedding bouquet

This is the arrangement I came up with after making beaded flowers for a customer to add to her wedding bouquet. In the end she used all of my beaded flowers and some other crystals and things. It was an amazing arrangement, and I'll post a blog about that another time.

beaded wedding bouquet

I've used almost all the same flowers and stems I made for her arrangement, and there are nearly 60 stems all up in this arrangement. I've used tulle in the arrangement, for the collar, and for the handle. I've then done a clever wrapping technique with satin ribbon around the handle.

wedding bouquet handle

This bouquet is available to buy from my website: Flower Cove

Custom orders are also available

Beaded Flower Bouquet

beaded rose

beaded flowers

I've finished a beaded bouquet that has three roses in different stages of development, a bud, a medium rose, and a fully opened rose. There are small beaded flowers around it, and there's a red ribbon to finish off. The roses are all done in a lovely pink shade, and each one has a set of calyx leaves, and a few larger leaves on the stem. Each stem is wrapped in floral tape.

beaded rose bouquet

This flower bouquet is available to buy from my website: Flower Cove

Custom orders are also available

New Items added to Flower Cove

Some of my newest listings:



Hair vines:

hair vines

white pearl hair vine

Hair Flowers:

hair flowers

beaded daisy

Hair pins:

beaded flower hair pins

beaded hair pin

Hair Barrettes:

beaded hair barrette

Flower Website

blue fascinator

I have a new website that I've created to list all the flowers I make, and also to list everything to do with hair accessories.

French beaded flower

The new site is called Flower Cove, and it is a Weebly site instead of Freewebs, I may also eventually move all of Craft Cove over to Weebly as well. With Weebly I can use as many pages as I want, but with Freewebs I only have a limited number.

black fascinator

hair flower

beaded carnation

fascinator

Flower Cove has hair flowers, hair fascinators, hair vines, and other hair accessories, as well as French beading , Victorian beading , and other types of beaded flower stems, bouquets, etc. Not everything in Flower Cove is beaded. I have all sorts of fabric and ribbon flowers as well as paper flowers and quilling. For those who don't know what quilling is, quilling is the art of creating items with paper, most commonly very thin strips are curled into shapes, then glued into designs. Of the fabric flowers, there are folded flowers, flame singed flowers, rolled flowers, and many more. These are then made into hair accessories or other things.

beaded flower

fascinator

You can find it all here: Flower Cove