Butterfly Challenge

Hi! I've just taken a new challenge. I've joined in Pepita's blog hop dedicated to Butterflies. If you are a fan of butterflies like myself, maybe you would like to join us too at Pepita's blog.

You'll have to create something on the theme of butterflies - it can be a piece of jewellery, an ornament or something else, and write a blog post about the final creation with the list of participants on the 11st May.

Some time ago I shared a simple necklace I've made using a butterfly pendant. You can read it HERE.

I'm not sure if I'll redo it in a more elaborate look or if I'll use some of the butterfly charms I have in my stash and make a bracelet fit for Spring.

I'm still indecisive whether I'll do something in beadweaving using one of the amazing patterns I've found on Etsy.

A pattern for a peyote bracelet - FLUTTERING BRACELET- from MigotoChou.

A pattern for a butterfly that can be used in a ring or lapel pin - from ButterflyBeadKits.

A beaded pendant - BUTTERFLY EFFECT - from mariposa8000.

I'll have to choose at least one. What is your favourite? 

Be(ad) happy!

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
~ Rabindranath Tagore ~

Desafio do aniversário do blogue de Pepita / Pepita’s Blogoversary Challenge

Welcome! Alenka Obid, also known as Pepita, has celebrated her first blogoversary with a giveaway and a blog hop. I was one of the lucky recipients of her handmade art. Besides creating jewellery, Pepita designs and makes the most beautiful polymer clay components.

There are 13 participants (a lucky number for Pepita) and each one received a different piece. The funny part is that even Alenka didn't know what piece she was sending to each of us.

I loved my pendant. It is an S-shaped pendant in bright green with yellow hues.

The challenge was launched: when I carefully looked at it, I noticed that it was top-drilled from side to side, and I thought: how am I going to hang the pendant, besides stringing? Maybe using wire to make a bail. Well, no. I'm just beginning in working with wire. And what about using seed beads and incorporate the pendant in a bead weaving design? Great idea, but my skills are limited to brick stitch. That was a lesson: I need to need to learn more beading and jewellery techniques. So, what about stringing? Too boring. And if cotton cord is used? That is interesting - I said to myself. Then I started making the necklace you can see in the photos below. I combined glass, ceramic and acryllic beads in different shapes to get a modern look.

I'm very happy with the finished necklace and I've worn it on a white top. By the way, I'm not so happy with the photos - it was a '4-day session' until I got some decent ones. I hope I have managed to capture the beauty of both pendant and necklace.

I would like to thank you, Alenka (Pepita), for your generosity in gifting us with your art and for hosting this event.

This is a blog hop so you can see many other creations with Pepita's beauties when you hop over to the blogs of real jewellery artists.

Ginger Bishop
Susan Kennedy
Becky Pancake
Debi Rasmussen
Evelyn Shelby
Dini Bruinsma
Monique Urquhart
Jo-Ann Woolverton
Penny May
Carolyn Lawson
Ana Cravidao <---- You are here
Dolores Raml
Cynthia Machata

GIVEAWAY ALERT: There is a surprise at Pepita's blog! Check it out here.

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Bem-vindo, caro leitor! O post de hoje faz parte de um blog hop patrocinado por Alenka Obid, mais conhecida como Pepita na blogosfera, que para festejar o 1.º ano do seu blogue ofereceu a 13 leitores um trabalho seu em massa polímera. São componentes de massa polímera, todos diferentes. É muita criatividade, não acham?

Contas, separadores, conectores. pendentes e fechos - todos criados por Pepita 

Recebi o pendente verde em forma de S que podem ver no canto inferior esquerdo e com ele fiz um colar enfiando contas variadas em fio de algodão . Já o usei e gosto muito do seu look moderno. Mil vezes obrigada à Alenka por ter criado este evento e por tão generosamente ter oferecido os seus trabalhos.

Não deixem de espreitar o que os meus colegas, alguns artistas premiados, fizeram com estas peças. Usem a lista que está acima na versão em inglês do post, mas não deixem de passar pelo blogue da Pepita ond há um sorteio-surpresa. Até à próxima!

Desafio / Challenge

Viva! Espero que estejam bem apesar do calor! Quero mostrar-vos um lindo pendente que recebi da talentosa artista eslovena Alenka Obid, também conhecida por Pepita. Para quem anda mais distraído, a Eslovénia, que fazia parte da antiga Jugoslávia, é país reconhecido desde 1992 e entrou para a União Europeia em 2004.  

Alenka está a festejar o primeiro ano do seu blogue e teve uma ideia muita engraçada - a de oferecer uma peça sua aos leitores que aceitassem criar uma bijutaria, um ornamento ou qualquer outro objecto. 

É um pendente com uma forma muito interessante. Acho que estou apaixonada pelas curvas.

Hi all! I would like to show you a pendant handmade by Alenka Obid, an artist from Slovenia, an independent country since 1992, formed after the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. So, Alenka, or Pepita as she likes to be called, is celebrating the first blogoversary and she launched a challenge to the readers.  She gave to thirteen readers a different handmade component and asked each one to create something with it - it can be a piece of jewellery, an ornament or anything one can think of. This is what I received. It is a pendant with the most interesting shape. I love the curves.

Não sei porquê mas este pendente lembrou-me uns brincos do Bali que fotografei há tempos. O que acham da variedade dos formatos?
I don't why but it reminded me of some Bali bone earrings I had photograped some time ago. Are these shapes awesome? 

Para quem quiser conhecer os trabalhos desta artista dêem um salto até ao blogue www.pepita-handmade.blogspot.com. No dia 11 de Agosto (domingo) mostrarei aqui o que fiz. Não faltem!
You can see Alenka's gorgeous polymer components and jewellery in www.pepita-handmade.blogspot.com  Please come back on the 11th of August (a Sunday) to see what I've made. Stay tuned!