I have a personal challenge for 2020. And you’re welcome to join me any time 😉 I decided that this year I’ll focus on a different theme and a specific kind of material every month. In February, the material I work within every one of my jewels and about which I decided to learn more… View more
Sign up to my newsletter if you don’t want to miss articles like this in the future: Subscribe to my newsletter! I love to work with glass pearls, and in this article, I collected all my jewelry which I created so far with glass pearls. But first: Why do I just LOVE glass pearls? Glass pearls are… View more
2018 was just as rich in novelties in the bead world as 2017. As a typical greedy little bead horder with a stash worth to introduce on national tv and eyes even bigger, I would love to have them all, of course! However, for the sake of our tiny Amsterdam apartment I have to restrict… View more
Precisely a year ago my friend Lenka Gondova started her own line of art quality, handmade clay cabochons. Since then some of her beautiful creations got into the hands of the best and most creative beaders and bead designers, among them Miriam Shimon and Sabine Lippert for example! Would you like to play with an L2Studio… View more
Six-seven years ago, when I went full time with beadwork jewelry (afterwards I opened a bead shop, than recently I decided for a career change and started to focus on designing beadwork tutorials) I was lucky enough to be featured in several newspapers and magazines. They were of local interest only, but the positive response I recieved… View more
When I started to get serious about beading (It happened in 2009 while I was preparing for my final exams at the university, and I needed a hobby to release tension.), there was a very limited number of bead shapes available. There were round seed beads, triangular, cubic and hexagonal ones (which never became widely used except… View more
