Beading Beetle Brooches // With a Beadle
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ธ.ค. 2021
- Thank you for allowing me to procrastinate doing anything and everything else to make a few more beetle brooches. Unfortunately I'm now hooked and can't stop making these, but I'll get back to sewing very soon!
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Thank you for watching! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
It’s always refreshing when you post videos like this, to intercut your normal dress-making diaries. The variety is very entertaining - and the joy/excitement you have when trying fun things makes it even better! Absolutely *no* need to apologize to us, Bianca.
Thank you Nicole! I have been in such a crafty and DIY mood, but I know people expect to see sewing 😅❤
A few days before I watched your video, my daughter said "look at this bead I just found" Then she gave a shrill cry (that we'll never forget) as it sprouted legs in her hand. We called it a beadle. So I love it that you called your brooch a beadle brooch. Beautiful work. Thank you for the excellent tut 🪲
Thank you! That is a surprise anyone would remember forever 😅🪲
I would watch and re-watch an entire playlist of you embellishing, beading, crafting. These are amazing and I'm so inspired to give them a go x
Thank you Emma!
Let’s face it, most of us prefer the jewelled version of anything, bugs or otherwise!
These are so inspiring. How to make something nasty so beautiful!!
Thank you Kaytie!
Isn’t it funny how the male species in most bugs & birds are very flashy & colorful while the females are plain & drab? Even creatures know that females are attracted to flash & color…love it!!
Cool!!! These really are lovely Bianca. However as a Kiwi and dyed in the wool bug lover I must stand up for the weta. They’re cool creatures and pretty in their own, idiosyncratic, sorta way, tho you’re certainly not the only person who is at best, ambivalent about their charms lol
Re: Swarovski….they’ve decided that they’re no longer supplying the “hobbyist” market so once stores are out of their supplies there will be no more Swarovski crystals. Still their loss, is Preciosa’s gain. They’re the go to crystal manufacturer of choice now and they’re good, high quality crystals that “were” a better price than Swarovski, tho how that’ll go without them in the market is hard to say.
My advice to others... Don't Google Image this 😮! LOL
Hello fellow Kiwi 😊 I did not know that about Swarovski or about the other brand, so thank you 💐
Thank you! I do apologize for singling out the weta, but they are quite exceptionally creepy to me 😅 So are any insects larger than palm sized, that's just too much 😬
No no no no, wetas have absolutely NO attraction at all (see my comment above). They are horrible - though my daughter's wooden cutout weta is bearable because it's wooden - and I still have nightmares about them some 40 years after leaving them behind on the other side of the world.
Take care and stay safe
from
Dublin, Ireland.
These embroidery and beading videos are super interesting to watch, and I'm enamored with the final results. You have caused me to have the "Brandi NO we cannot pick up a new craft hobby right now we have so many unfinished cross stitch projects" conversation with myself several times, ha!
I absolutely agree with you that if beetles weren't flying types, they would be much more palatable. For me, it's the sheer dense-ness of all that flying at my head. It feels like a lil fist is coming at me.
Thank you Brandi! Give into the crafting call...😂❤
Great job! Not a beetle fan but love the long skinny one. You should try a dragonfly, that's a cool bug! You are quite a talented lady. Always enjoy your videos!
Thank you Denise!
Umm not a big fan of the live versions but we have Christmas Beatles here in Oz and their carapace are a beautiful iridescent gold or green. My son would collect the discarded shells and put them on our tree more fitting than fake snow in the summer time.
Love your jewel versions. Seasons greetings 🦘🇦🇺
Thank you Kaye! The Christmas beetles are gorgeous!!
I need "Some beetles are unacceptable" on a t shirt 😂
As a bug nerd, these are AMAZING! Altho', I don't like them crawling on me either -- like your brooches, many are beautiful and interesting to look at. Scarabaeidae are the ultimate composters improving soil in cropland and forest. Cerambycidae (long-horned beetles) are also a large family group with lots of diversity. Thanks for creating such interesting videos!
Thank you Pepper! There are so many gorgeous colors (not really colors I know, scales? however nature does that magic) of beetle out there! The patterns and iridescence is gorgeous ✨
Your work is so very beautiful, Bianca. I enjoy watching you work and explain what you are doing and why you are doing it the way you are. It makes it seem obtainable to those of us that would never have dreamed of it. Keep doing what you do best, just being yourself. Stay healthy, happy and humble.
Thank you Anita!
Beading Bianca cannot be stopped! I'm surprised you haven't made a bee yet, it would be very on brand :)
Bees soon for sure! 🐝
Beautiful. I found a similar thing when I moved into my very rural Spanish house. It looked like a metal iridescent broach but had no pin on the back. There was no movement so I thought it was dead. I kindly put it in a match box and placed it closed on the mantelpiece. Next day I was going to take it to town to get it identified and the box had been slid open and the beatle gone. I found many inside the house over the years and just popped them back outside.
The dung beatles were fun to watch as they moved goat 💩 to where they wanted it. I don't like spiders or snakes. I appreciate their beauty but just not for me. Best wishes x
Thank you Heather! I would be quite scared by real beetles this size. There were big iridescent green ones on some of the flowers at Huntington Gardens in California when I was visiting this fall, pretty but also creepy eek!
Bianca is a genius. Thank you Bianca for all your efforts to teach us.
Thank you!! 🐞
I'm so glad we were able to "persuade" you into making more beetles. These are super cute and now I want to make some. Looking forward to the bodice video but don't push yourself too hard, take some time for yourself in this holiday season.
Thank you Flynn! Not overworking myself in December? Unheard of 😂
@@TheClosetHistorian From one overworker to another, take some down time, it's worth it. But please ignore the fact that I am in the process of baking four cheese cakes.
Thank you so much for your valuable time,much appreciated,love all insects,moth butterfly,so glad I came across your channel.💯🪄🦋🕊️🌟
First and foremost, your hat game is the best. And I've grown an appreciation for beetle jewelry because of you.
Thank you! 💚
Ooo you know those tiny super colourful jumping spiders? Thatd make an adorable brooch! (I am NOT a fan of spiders but for some reason they dont creep me out in videos)
Oooooh, now there's an idea! I might steal that if you don't mind, lol.
I remember my grandma having a live beetle brooch that she wore to a New Years Eve party. I was so fascinated by it. Of course now I see how cruel that was.
I am absolutely obsessed with these brooches! I work at a craft store, which is a very dangerous occupation for someone such as myself who has an obsession for making things, as well as very strong craft supply hoarder tendencies... Oh well! Thank you so much for the wonderful videos!
Working at a craft store sounds sooo dangerous 😂❤
I just gasped audibly because you could make BEES with this technique. BEES!! The possibilities are bountiful!!
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Love them! ❤
Wonderful!
So much fun - thank you!
My cat is super fascinated watching this with me 😍
There is no higher praise! Thank you (and your cat) ✨
Wonderful brooches and delicious hat!
(also, the "wing cases" are called elythrae!)
Thank you Andrea!
Such a cool idea! Is this one John Paul George or Ringo?
omg - so gorgeous !!!
Thank you Kaoi!
Absolutely gorgeous
Thank you!
LOVED!!!!!
I LOVED THAT!!!!!!!
I´m so inspired by this video!!!!!
stunning!
Thank you Kat!
So pretty! And I am sure making these helps you a little with your phobia. If only you had met that farmer on Öland who proudly told the visiting ecologists and cultural landscape-restorators that he had 18 species of dung beetles on his farm! I know that no one here asked for this information, but I just find dung beetles so fascinating - it is the lack of them and other insects that makes dung just sit in the pastures and not go away for a very long time. Dung beetles use the stars to navigate! Dung beetles are devine!
Thank you Kerstin! Mad that the beetles use the stars?!
Amazing!! Love how they came out
Thank you Nancy!
I love it. You have inspired me to try doing some of this on my own.
Absolutely beautiful work!
Thank you!
Oh Bianca! I love your humor. You surprised me about research and I literally LOL. I love the glam version you’ve created.
Thank you!
I grew up in Auckland, NZ. We had a hedge around the garden which the weta loved to live in, we also had a shed at the bottom of the garden for the lawnmower etc and they lived in there and I'm positive they grew little wetas in there. You opened the door at your own risk then stood back to let them all fall before entering in. I was held hostage by a weta on the back steps of a friend's house - I was feeding their cat while they were away on holiday - for several hours until one of the sons came home and rescued me (he stood on the weta).
As a result I am convinced that the ONLY good weta is either the wooden cutout version my daughter was given one year or a dead one (cue shouts or screams of outrage about them being protected etc etc etc) but if you could somehow come up with a beaded weta brooch I might be able to put my utter disgust/fear/hatred of them to make it for myself. I am decent at beading but absolutely useless at the design part.
Your moth, cicada and now beetle brooches are lovely to behold, and I am tempted to make a scarab beetle brooch for myself.
Take care and stay safe.
Now living in weta free Ireland.
These are beautiful 😍
Thank you Abby!
Beautiful
Thank you!
These are beautiful! Thank you for sharing them!
Thank you!
Wow! Bravo! Very beautiful!❤
Thank you Mila!
Beautiful work.
Thank you Deb!
I'm loving these presentations! Thank you very much💗
Thank you Raini!
the Swarovski thing is true, i work in a bead shop currently and they no longer do flatbacks for resale as well as many beads and rivollis. its sad, but luckily theres lookalikes out there. Its great seeing people take up beadwork in its many forms these days, creativity keeps going with the inspiration to feed it
you inspire me so much !!
Thank you! ❤
Love love love your hat! Your bugs are awesome !
Thank you Christena!
Wonderful collection very nice work 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖💖
You continue to amaze us...!
Thank you Jill!!
A world tour of craft stores..... I'm in! Wouldn't that be fun? Almost fun as your brooch videos. Almost....
Your beading videos are my favorite 🖤
Thank you! ❤
These beetles are gorgeous! Honestly, I could watch you do this beading for hours...
Thank you!
What lovely creatures.
Thank you Lettitia!
MARAVILHOSA.ESPETACULAR.INCRÍVEL.
They are gorgeous! I'm inspired to make my own insectarium!
Just lovely💚💚💚
Thank you Katie!
I used to love doing silk ribbon embroidery; making flowers on jackets and blouses. Somethings adding beads in. I had a kit years ago where I could make beaded brooches.
Oh my gosh.....you gotta be kidding? Is there anything you cannot do? AMAZING!!!
Thank you Brenda! I assure you there are a great many things I cannot do 😅🤣
Bellísimo 🌿🌷
Fabulous hat!
Thank you Maggie!
Excellent! I loved this and hope to try it out myself. Thanks!
Thank you!
amazing! I enjoyed learning how to make these!
Thank you!
These are really exquisite! Thanks for showing the process.
Thank you Julie!
I love the idea of buttons, very Schiaparelli!
Love the hat! 🖤
Thank you!
Love love love these beetles. So much fun. Am sure I will have to do some myself.
Thank you Jaime!
Beautiful thank you for sharing your talent and videos
Thank you Kathy!
oh my gosh, i love them all so much!!!!!!! gah
Thank you!
They would be super cute as barrettes too!!
Very nice bead work! Great idea!
Thank you Leisongi!
Your skill sets are AMAZING!💝💝💝🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thank you Laura!
Those beetles are just gorgeous
Thank you!
what a coincidence, that I am watching this video today 12.06, & there is a part where she mentions the date of Dec 6th being the day it is being recorded. Have been looking for inspiration & this must be a sign..😍
The bugs were sooo amazing! Thank you for sharing your creations :D.
Thank you Alexis!
Ya knoooow...I had no idea what a New Zeland Weta was, but now I do! Huzza! A new fear!
New fear wooooo! 😂
I have a load of beads and embroidery threads sitting about and this is giving me Ideas.
You are so talented
Thank you Bree!
They are so pretty. Want to make some now 🙂 They are on my to make list.
Right back to hand sewing small regency parts and more videos.
i need to buy more assorted beads. i just love it you don't use expensive material...of course building a good range of colours / styles of beads can end up being significant....but your materials make it affordable for any hobbiest
Wow! This is so inspiring and the pins are GORGEOUS!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you!
this is the most gorgeous exposure therapy
Only glam exposure therapy in this studio 😂✨
Thank you so much! These brooches are so lovely in every way and starting to make own just now 😍
Thank you Johanna! I hope you have fun with them 🧵✨
These look amazing. Thanks for the tutorial.
Thank you Kirsten!
I love the beetle brooches! I definitely want to try making some and appreciate having your close up work to guide me along.
Thank you Kalli!
They're beautiful. And sparkly green beats all.
Thank you! 💚✨
Very beautiful work!❤ thanks for sharing your talent!😊
Thank you Mary!
The beetles you made are gorgeous 😍 thanks for this inspiring video.
Thank you!
I love your take on crafts and the verbiage you use! A fresh take on a classic craft. Thank you for bringing this into the future.
Thank you Alissa!
Love your beetles! You do such amazing work and I know it takes a lot of hours and patience to make them thanks for sharing!
Thank you Neda!
Those are really cool! My favorite is the long skinny one!
Thank you!
I have all of the supplies on hand! The only thing I might need or some bugle beads. I am so going to make one of these after Christmas!
How absolutely stunning. Just found your post and I’m fascinated. How arstistic.
Thank you Robin!
Love your hat!!!! Beadling is going brilliantly!! xxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you Alexandra!
These are gorgeous, so effective. You are a woman of so many talents.
Thank you Gillian!
Hi. Bianca!!! Gorgeous beetle!!! Love it!!!! Great job!!! 💚🎄♥️.
Thank you Alice!
Really beautiful brooches you make, this is phenomenal to have so much patience.
Thank you!
These are such beautiful brooches Bianca! I would love to see more videos like this. Especially since I love beading and embroidery as much as I love sewing clothes.
Thank you Kathryn!
I love the beading videos!! They're so fun and cheerful and all these brooches, spider, moth or beetle, are an absolute dream! This one may be a new favourite, the colour palette is just wonderful
Thank you! 🐞
I love this video (the beetles are gorgeous), but I especially love your commentary. I enjoy your personality so much.
Thank you Kirsten!
I love these so much! Feeling inspired, I think I might try my hand with a Luna moth
Thank you Rachel! A luna moth would be awesome!!
Scarabs were popular in the 1960s. I always wanted one. Made without the legs one could look very much like the carved stone ones I loved. You give me ideas!