Angelque Creations

During this busy Christmas season, I have been spending weekends at various craft fairs through out Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.  I was recently at the Make it Vancouver show at the Croation Cultural Centre, Micky Macdougal Craft Fair in North Vancouver, Simon Fraser Craft Fair and the Abbotsford Farmers Market.  During these fairs I sold a couple of beadwoven pieces from my shop that I am very happy about. Here are the photo's of the pieces that were sold.     Break Water (Raw)                                    Sea Foam St. Petersberg Stitch Necklace 

It is time once again for the monthly challenge of the Etsy Beadweavers Street Team.  The theme this month is Peace Piece.and the voting starts today December 9 and runs until Dec 15.  Check out the web site at http://www.etsy-beadweavers.blogspot.com/ to view the 20 beautiful works of art.  Angelque Creations has entered this challenge with my Snow and Ice necklace (number 4 on the Etsy website).  I hope that you will all take the opportunity to visit the site and vote for your favorite piece.

Featuring Lorraine Coetzee, of Trinity Designer Jewellery, Cape Town, South Africa. Lorraine is one of the many talented weavers beloning to Etsy Beadweavers Street Team.  Lorranine has always been encouraging to the team members and was one of the first people to encourge my work as I entered this amazing world.  Lorraine works through some very difficult health issues.  She is an inspiration to us all as she is very active within the group and produces wonderful pieces of art.  Here is what Lorraine had to say. Tell me a bit more about yourself? Where you live, etc, I live in one of the most beautiful places on earth, Cape Town, South Africa. (A photo of Table Mountain across the bay forms the banner to my Etsy shop and Blogspot). Handmade arts, crafts and painting are my passion and from a little girl, I've done embroidery classes, cake decorating, painting, decoupage, sewing, dress designing and lampwork etc. Whilst raising my ownly daughter, I've also done a...

Here is a little insight into what makes Deb of BeadandBloom tick.  I was doing some research on Deb and found out that she is a SCiFi lover like me.  Hum, I find it amazing that we SciFi lovers seem to flock together in what ever we undertake.  I love the Lord of the Rings trilogy as well and my husband and I have been know to watch all three in one sitting on a rainy weekend. Here is what Deb had to say: Is there was any significence to the name of you shop? When I started selling my handmade items I couldn't decide which I liked to do more, beadwork or floral designs, so I decided to do both and became Beads and Blooms. Tell me a bit more about yourself? I'm a Kansas country girl through and through. I've always lived in small towns and enjoy the rural lifestyle. My day job is being the one-woman office staff for a long term care facility. Creating gives me much needed stress relief. When did you start beading and beadweaving?  I started beadweaving in the...

Angelque Creations West Coast Netted Bangle was featured in this lovely Etsy Treasury Good Morning along with many other talented artisans.  The listing will exipire in a couple of days so if you have time please check out the other shops and post your comments. http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=95597

This week I am featuring Patricia Vener of Silver Dragon Creations http://www.silverdragon.etsy.com/  another fellow Etsy Beadweaver Street Team member.  It is interesting to me to find out about someone that you have talked with in various forums and learn new ways that you are compatable.  I also love Stargate Atlantis, in fact any Sci-fi film or TV show usually catches my interest.  Here is what Patricia had to say. 1. What type of art work do you do? I'm a painter who has added bead weaving to her repertoire of media. 2. How did you get started doing art work? Someone gave me a crayon or pencil and I went to town! Among my earliest memories is of visitng a museum when I was four years old and being totally mesmerized by the Native American exhibits of textiles and decorative work. I stood there staring and staring and had to be dragged away. 3. Do you do any other crafts? I have done some small fiber weaving (loom work interestingly enough and I love it), ...

Angelque Creations is participating in the Shop Swap & Blog set up by Structured Chaos and I received my package from Mary Mule Designs.  Mary Mule makes hand made fabric accessories: tote bags, purses, zippered pouches, coffee cozies and baby bibs!.  As part of the Shop and Swap Mary Mule sent me two items, one was a coffee cosy and the other was a cosmetic bag.  I must say that of the two items, the coffee cosy is my favorite.  It is a reuasable, totatly sustainable wrap that you slide around your favorite brand of speciality coffee.  The coffee cosy is great for the environment since you never need to use the card board one provided in the shop. Here is a bit about Mary Mule: Online Shop Address: http://www.marymule.etsy.com/ Blog Address http://lifeon19th.blogspot.com/ Facebook Fan page  http://www.facebook.com/marymuledesigns A bit about yourself: I am a Physician Assistant. My husband and I have been married for a year. We have a dog...