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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
