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

 

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.

Sale 20% off at Shop Handmade

There is 20% off all items listed in my shop handmade store.

This is just a small selection of the listed items.










There are chainmail earrings, beaded earrings, wirework earrings, beaded jewellery, beaded flowers, and even a beaded duck.

Don't miss it. This month only.

Sale at Shop Handmade Store

For this month I'm having my sale at my Shop Handmade store.

There are 9 items listed and they are all 10% off. There's a bit of everything listed including, chainmail, wirework, beadweaving, and a beaded rose bud.

The sale is for all of August only.

See them here Shop Handmade

Victorian Beading

Victorian beaded dog

Victorian beaded monkey

Victorian beaded monkey

Victorian beaded duck

At first I thought this beading style was another type of French Beading, but I've since discovered it's actually Victorian beading. They're similar, but French Beading is created with the wires twisting at each row end, whereas Victorian beading is more like Right Angle Weave.

I just love the wonderful 3D animals that can be made with this weave, they just look so good. They're very much like the Beadies that's popular with kids, but this is a bit more difficult and creates three dimensional objects instead of just flat ones.

I'll have to do some more French beading soon too!

Another spiral

Here's another type of spiral I've just finished. This time it's a different type of "Dutch Spiral".

Dutch spiral

Dutch spiral

I used a variety of purples and reds for this necklace, and I've tapered towards the back.

I made a spiral clasp to match the piece as well.

This will be available to buy from my web site very soon.

Craft Cove

25% off selected bracelets

I'm having a sale this month for a massive 25% off these selected handcrafted beaded bracelets.

beaded bracelet

stretch cuff

See my website for more information: Handcrafted jewellery from Australia

More Spirals again

So here's the Cellini spiral. I've used size 10 seed beads in olive green, then size 8 seed beads in silver-lined lime green, and gold silver-lined seed beads in size 6. The pearls are 4mm greens. I've made it gradually narrower towards the back.

And this is the other spiral rope that is basically an embellished right angle weave.

I'll be photographing the other dutch spiral soon, and I'm making a tight spiraled herringbone rope as well and then I think that will be all the spirals there are.

More spirals are listed here:  
http://craftcove.blogspot.com/2010/04/all-spirals.html

New listings on my website

Here's some of my latest work that I've just listed on my website

3d beaded teddy

3d beaded basket

3d beaded elephant

3d beade basket

beaded flower brooch

spiral rope necklace

cellini spiral

triangle weave

raw spiral bracelet

Freeform Madness Result

freeform beaded bracelet

freeform bracelet

freeform beading

freeform bracelet

freeform bracelet

I seem to have trouble with my camera to USB connection so I couldn't list the photos from the camera yet. Just before I found out I could use the memory card in the lap top then move them over to the PC to edit and post. Thanks to Vedasbeads from Twitter.

So here are the photos of the freeform bracelet I made. It was so much fun making it.