New Beads On Etsy

After long hibernation, finally I have new listing for my bead shop *smile* I have new art beads too from talented local polymer clay artist - Esterina M. Jagiella

Please visit my shop for bead's details.

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My day little bit bright today!

Cause I received fantastic and unique BEADS girls *wooooohhhhoooo* Handmade artisan polymer clay beads, Seed beads, Krobo beads far away from Ghana - Africa and tons of Gudo recycled traditional glass beads. Here they are...

::: e-Klei-Jar :::

by Esterina K. Jagiella

 Polar Bear

 Take a look the detail, lovely isn't it?

 When I saw this bear, I remember Golden Compass's giant bear - Mr.Lorek Byrnison

 Sexy bear *wink*

 ::: Krobo Glass Bead :::

My friend just came home from Ghana - Africa and my Krobo arrived! 

::: Chevron And MetalFish :::

All of these beads made from polymer clay by Wulan Pelita Craft. I'm so happy, cause a lot of polymer clay artist in my country now.

 ::: Gudo Recycled Traditional Glass Bead :::

I just received this batch for my shop from my craftmen at Gudo. So gorgeous and lovely colors right.

 One characteristic of Gudo recycled glass bead is always transparent. The color can be derived from dyed the bead or original color from the glass material.

 The black above is dyed one.

The yellow, clear water and blue sea below are original colors of the glass, no dyed.

 And the photo below isn't Gudo recycled glass bead, but Gudo glass bead with large hole.

::: Seed Bead :::

 My precious treasure!!!

Etsy Listing For Gudo Traditional Beads

This march, a famous blog party - Bead Soup Blog Party hosted by Lori Anderson is  beginning. Every participants get so excited with beads mix to produce delicious soup to play. I love to mix beads too, so fun times. And for my Etsy shop - ManTraKoe has new special listing for Gudo traditional beads. I made Gudo soup *smile* Simply click H.E.R.E. to enjoy this special soup. Have a good weekend everyone.

Etsy Listing For Gudo Traditional Beads

Finally I re-open my supplies shop at Etsy. For the first listing, I have five kind of Gudo traditional beads. Here the photos of the beads...

If you want to visit my shop, just simply click HERE ok.

Gudo, Home For Talented Glass Beadmen

I'm not gonna write about the process of glass bead making. Cause the basic is the same, only different on the tools that usually we use. So here I'll take you walking along the rural roads that are still beautiful. Gudo itself isn't large village. Gudo is my third home. In here a lot of design inspiration. So come on, follow me back to nature *smile*

Welcome

Welcome gate to small industrial glass beads

Most of glass beadmen have two types of work. As a glass beadmen in the daytime, in the early morning and evening they became farmers. Incidentally, this is a two-day harvest. If harvest just like now, most glass beadmen will stop making glass beads. They are more focused on the harvest event. Indigenous javanese still hold dear to them. Before the harvest begins, always starts with 'bancakan' kind of eating together as a form of thanksgiving for the harvest

Main road

Way to the paddy fields

Rice straw begins to dry after harvest

Some farmers on harvest

Toward a resting place, under a shady tree, unwind after rice harvest.

In these barns the harvest will be saved 'lumbung'

Haystack, delicious food for the cows that will soon be working hard to plow the field again.

Happily home after harvesting rice.

Beside rice field, in Gudo there are many small sugar plantations.

Road to the small sugar plantations.

The irigation for both field, rice and sugar fields.

Ready to work on small sugar plantation.

Mini tracktor to plow the field.

The small sugar plantation usually side by side with rice fields.

Now, enjoy the wild-flowers that I found along the road. These wild flowers adorn the edge of fields.

Red Dragonlfy

Now...it's time to see the community. Mostly the house still in tradition design, except for a row of houses along the main village road, mostly used as a store for selling glass beads.

Some houses used as glass beads store.

Some traditional house design.

Ok then, our tour has arrived at village border, which is have a beatiful scenery. Once you cross a row of these cypress, it means you have left Gudo and you walked to my hometown - Kediri.

Finish