...At least in my mind I see hints of spring underneath the frozen grass, and flowers, too...
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...I love taking pictures out of a plane window...looking onto a miniature world, where everything is reduced to plain shapes, lines and dots...
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...This tree is a bit ahead of time, since I gave it some green leaves, while the fileds are bare and far away from being green...
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...One of my favourite plants...although I donīt have any anymore, because my cats decided itīs their favourite plant, too...
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...and ancient flower captured in amber;-)...
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...A picture of amber floating in shallow water after a storm, mixed with algae and driftwood...and the air is smelling like seaweed...
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This bead, with its rough surface and odd shape, kind of reminds me of an ancient amphora brought to the surface and still tangled in algae...
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...an angel lost his wing...I found it and encased it;-)...
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...A similar design to a set I listed a couple of days ago...but I loved it so much, therefore had to make another one... a focal this time...
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..playing with contrasts again...the reflection of a glowing red sunset on ice makes it look like being on fire...without melting it...
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...some aster flowers for fall...
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...a painterly vision of fall...
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Iīm seriously drawn to greens these days...probably because theyīre vanishing bit by bit...but fall is having a finale... still lots of flowers out there...
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...trying to capture all the fine lines in colored autumn leaves...
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...colors are changing...
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...illuminating the world in glowing colors...
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Playing with Doublehelix Psyche, I thought these lentils look like balloon fish...so I gave them eyes ...and tails...
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...glowing sunset, but the atmosphere is indicating a storm...
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Recently I love exploring different kinds of surfaces, using enamels and metals..which offers a wide field of possibilities...and lots of fun;-)...
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...full of berries and the leaves are gone...
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...Some days ago I noticed, that the ground around the small trees in my street looks dark red...It is covered in berries, blown off by a storm and spread around their trunks in a circle...
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Iīve done a lot of florals and all kind of spring beads recently...hope that spring comes soon...
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...early in the morning...
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...trying to capture a bit of natureīs beauty....
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Longing for spring....
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Inspired by the book title and cover of "river of blue fire" by Tad Williams...but not by the content...I didnīthappen to read the book yet...
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...curled up on a bead....
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Another aproach to trees..in a sculptural way...inspired by bonsai trees and some Japanes ink drawings I saw recently...
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...Ok, before somebody else says it, Iīm going to say it myself: yes, this bead definitely looks a little bit pregnant;-)...but itīs just a huge bubble of clear with some flowers in it...
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...Some butterflies are still hiding, dreaming of meadows full of flowers...but their wings are sticking out...
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Happy butterflies...having a garden full of flowers..
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Butterfly wings transformed into glass...
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Bead sets inspired by my recent stay on the Kapverdian Islands.
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...but not a common kind;-)...mine has blue leaves and pretty blossoms...
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...Not exactly the color palette one expects in fall...so it might be a preview for spring... the name of this bead is the latin name of a spring flower...
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...one can dream...
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...well, I used Vetrofond Salmon pink;-)...but with some...a lot of...imagination you might see salmons jumping up a waterfall...
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Probably I picked the wrong season for this bead...;-)
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Going out onto the ocean in a little boat, and after a while turning around and looking back ...this is what you might see...a coastline...far far away...
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...as fall can be...
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Colorful corals in diffuse underwater light....
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...Itīs been a while since I made corals, I almost forgot how much fun it is to play with whimsical shapes like that... Taking pictures of this color combo, on the other hand...;-)...well, I tried...
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...wheat, cornflowers, chamomile and poppies...
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...Too early in the year for cornflowers? I have a picture in my mind of cornflowers sitting in their seeds dug deep into the earth, and waiting for some sun...
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I love making freeformed beads...critters and everything that is ever possible to "squeeze" into a bead...
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...This is kind of the shadow of a jellyfish...When I saw my first stinging jellyfish as a kid, I had no idea what it was, but in its beauty it looked like a creature from a fairytale. My next encounter wasnīt that pleasant...lol...
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...Snowdrops are already blooming...hopefully daffodils will be next...
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...Theyīre blooming everywhere...while it is still too cold outside...Iīve spread them all over my home...all the window sills are filled with daffodils...
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Playing with my new Cattwalk tool...a funky oval lentil...which gives a lot of canvas to paint on...Do you see the dshinn?
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...Thereīs a touch of summer in these beads...
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Spring is about to come...some are blooming already.....
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...Too early for roses? Well, this one sits in a safety bubble of clear and can weather February...
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...fortunately it doesnīt look like this at all...
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...with water reflecting on the sand...
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...The depth in this beads creates an impression of unreal...even some motion that isnīt there...like an enchanted forest...
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...sunset inspired beads...
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Colors are changing...natureīs getting ready for fall...
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All the gardens are full of colors now, red, yellow, orange...and painted leaves mixed in...at least where the gardeners arenīt hunting for every single leave that falls down...
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Yellow leaves drizzling down like golden rain, leaving the branches blank...
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...While making this bead, a little piece of silver foil got into my way, so i simply grabbed it and stuck it onto the bead...melt it in, and forgot about it. After etching, I discovered 2 tiny sparkling dots...that is what is left of the silver, but it looks like a little fen fire...
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This set displays polarities...between fire and ice...hot and cold, summer and winter...and fall is somewhere in between...
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...The first flower of this year...a bit too early, but everything is possible in glass...
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...I wasnīt thinking of the state "Florida" while making this bead, but of the expression of its name: "flowering, blooming"... It snowed again this morning...therefore Iīm making flower beads to create some balance...
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...Peeking through a cascade of flowers onto the ocean...sounds like summer...
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...Still colorful leaves everywhere...but falling...
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All those brave little flowers already sticking their heads out might well find themselves covered in ice in the morning...
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...The trees have almost lost their leaves, empty twigs in frozen air and misty clouds lingering...
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...Itīs been ages that I actally made some round beads...so I just had to sit down and make some...
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...Fields are frozen, but still having colors. The tiny lines in the pictures are, by the way, no fingerprints;-), but twisties of Aion applied onto the surface, lingering like lines of mist...
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...itīs getting colder...
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...Early in the morning the trees are frozen and covered in glaze frost, the light seems to be blueish and the mist over the fields painted pink...too bad it turns into cold and damp a bit later...
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I didnīt really trust this geckos climbing talent...so I gave him a bead to safely climb on;-)...
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...curled up on a bead....
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...and some flowers trapped in it...maybe from ancient times...
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A little goldfish looking for a bigger pond...
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Another spring focal...
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...some green to make summer stay a bit...
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...They said it might snow over the next days...therefore this tree has a lot of green leaves...to create some balance...
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...Hawaiiīs volcanoes have been a great inspiration for me recently, even if Iīve never been there and am just looking at pictures...
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...Itīs pretty chilly and unpleasant outside...therefore there are for sure places Iīd rather be;-)... Hawaii...ocean and volcanoes, and hot lava flowing into the water...of course some flowers...well, one can dream...
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Inspired by hibiscus flowers in the Botanical Garden of Funchal, Madeira...
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...underneath the frozen soil, there are still flowers, waiting to come back...hope it doesnīt take them too long...
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...Lined up in a garland...
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Cannot stop making flowers...hope spring comes soon and takes over;-)...
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Maybe calling a bead like that makes that white mess outside to go away;-)...
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...a landscape covered in ice...sparkling though...
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...Icy river...with water traveling under the ice...unharmed by winter...
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...and lots of cobwebs...
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Pretty little blossoms calling for spring...
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Intended to be a flower...but with its bold colors it reminds me of a jesters hat...so this is how this bead got its unusual name;-)...
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...Home of Pele...outpouring hot lava and blueish shimmering scoria...
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...I caught a glimpse of spring...
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...a tropical beach...cool water...some bubbles...
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...lined with flooded meadows and some first flowers peeking out...
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...will hopefully last for a bit...
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...Last month the colors where way more pretty than now in November...so I decided to just think back and to make a bead in last monthīs colors...
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The light is getting warmer, while the sun is getting cooler...
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Some focals I didnīt show yet...
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Yes...real lemon flowers look different...but the color...;-)...
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....another bead inspired by "levada-hiking" on Madeira...
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Soon they will be peeking out of the ponds and be spreading their petals...
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Never seen one in person...but they look wonderful in pictures....
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..."blue hour" between the darkness of night and daylight..
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...adding lines, dots, colors to this beads was very relaxing...just as painting a mandala...
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...cat silhouette....
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Shutting my kitties out of my working area apparently shut them out of my imagination so far...I decided to change that...
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...doesnīt Nyx somehow look like reflections on the water?
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...another monarch butterfly...
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Inspired by my recent trip to Madeira, where I saw monarch butterflies for the very first time...
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...A tree growing in high mountains...with nothing to hold on but rocks...but still standing...
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...A bit of moonshine, a bit of night sky...and some flowers added to the mix...
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...reflecting on the water and shadows of thin branches painting patterns...
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Follow that way....;-)
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Water soaked green with patches of water in between..some flowers floating on top...
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...Morning air is painting everything in blue...but youīll have to get up really early;-)...
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Some day I'll wish upon a star...
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..and some little spring flowers...
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Misty and cold air and the color of the leaves create a rather mystic atmosphere...
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