25.5.08 Premio Arte Y Pico Award from Betina Guelman

I have received the "Premio Arte Y Pico" Award from my Israeli commune friend Betina Guelman. Thank you Betina for honoring me with this award!
What I like in Betina is the way she tries, with no fear, new techniques, patterns and so on... Additionally, you will not find a jewel without an assorting set in Betina's creations. You can have a look in her blog in the following link: http://betinaguelman.blogspot.com/

Betina Guelman

Now, it's my turn to pass on the award (and I have 10 more awaiting to pass...) to the 5 following blogs:

1. Benedicte Tarrade, from France, "De Perle en Perle" Blog, an extremely talented diverse artist. This blog always leaves me with open mouth. I consider what she does as A R T. Most of Benedicte's recent art is bead embroidery, which I just cannot stop admiring. She does perfect finishing, meticulous, original and very very authentic designs. A must in your favorites: http://benedicte01.canalblog.com/

(Benedicte - je presente ton blog avec beaucoup d'admiration a ce que tu fait. Tu est une source d'inspiration avec tes tresors aussi authentiques, originaux et uniques).

"De Perle en Perle" - Benedicte Tarrade

2. Olga, from France, "P'tits Cailloux" Blog, where you will find jewels from the legends. I like so much the forms and colors combinations Olga uses in her magnificent bead embroidery, beadwork or polymer clay jewelry. Olga does many jewels that can be worn in many ways - such as her flowers necklaces. Also expert in fimo and the lizard friend, I recommend you to visit this talented modest artist. http://ptitscailloux.canalblog.com/

"P'tits Cailloux" - Olga

3. Svetlana Eltsova, from Finland, "Reijo" Blog. Svetlana has the most interesting blog I ever encountered on the net about beadwork. A rich source of information and beautiful beadwork from various artists in various beadwork subjects. I feel like being guided in an interactive online museum on beadwork. Thank you so much Svetlana for sharing with us all this fascinating information and making for us the most interesting online beadwork magazine! Additionally to those reviews Svetlana writes, she does the most beautiful beadwork gardens. Very inspired from nature, she makes unique flowering garden necklaces with such beautiful compositions. Mostly recommended! http://reijo.multiply.com/

Svetlana Eltsova

4. Birgit B., from Germany, "Fofinhas" Blog. Birgit does perfect (and when I say perfect - I mean that) stitching and finishing, beautiful and colorful artistic beadwork. I am fond of her original designs inspired by nature. A candy pleasure to the eye http://fofinhas-perlenstuebchen.blogspot.com/

"Fofinhas" - Birgit

5. Zsuzsi Veres, from Hungary, "Vezsuzsi Gyongyei" Blog. Zsuzsi' ' s blog is full of excellent pictures of her original beadwork. I honor this blog the award on creative, unique and original forms and designs, for gentle and perfect jewelry beauties. http://vezsuzsigyongyei.blogspot.com/

"Vezsuzsi Gyongyei" - Zsuzsi V.

The rules for passing the award on are (you can copy&paste) :

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for creativity, design, interesting material, and also contributes to the blogging community, no matter of language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award-winning has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the ward itself.

4) Award-winning and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y pico"blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

5) Show these rules.