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Copper Brooch Wide Eyed from Shalini Austin Designs

One-Off Textured Copper Brooch Copper Brooch Wide Eyed from Shalini Austin Designs

Felt Beads and Wire... Follow up Post

I wrote about my new adventure with Felt beads a few days ago... These are two new brooches I made with the lovely beads from  Felt Artisan Eve Marshall Flower Brooch with a Deep red needle felted bead centre made with copper wire. Flower Brooch with a gorgeous felted bead in shades of turquoise, teal, aqua and dull green made with copper wire.

"Tree of Life" Brooch - Jewellery By Shalini

This is My entry for the latest “Non-Blogger and Blogger Challenge ~ OMG Renaissance!” on Bead Soup Cafe on facebook "Tree of Life" Brooch - Jewellery By Shalini : 'via Blog this'

Felt Beads and Wire... It Works!

I have new toys! Needle and wet felted beads :-) Few weeks ago Felt Artisan Eve Marshall gave me a couple of red wet felted beads and said "see if you can make something with it". I mainly work with gemstone beads, rocks, pearls and wire. So this was a completely new medium and I will be honest that initially I thought yeah lets try something but not sure if this will be my thing. Don't get me wrong, they were gorgeous beads but I don't work with fabric type stuff. Wool doesn't like me and yarn hates me. Why would felt be any different? Anyway... I brought the lovely deep red wet felted beads home. They were round so I hammered them into discs and made a pair of earrings. And I was surprised at how nice they looked! So cool that they are mine now! I have been wearing them a lot. Lightweight and pretty, and of course RED! Eve also gave me a lovely purple and blue bead. As a thank you present for being such a good friend I made a little flower brooch...