amarques

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Member since

2009/02/01

Country

Ireland

Birthday

1963/02/26

About me

My name is Andrea and I live in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland.

I started beading some months ago while I was in Brasil and have been invited by the owner of my favourite jewelry shop there to make a course with her. I loved it and started to bead since then. That was back in October 2008.

When I came back to Ireland I started buying more beads and findings: from gemstones to Murano and Swarovski crystals. I love mixing them in my pieces, and I am eager to learn more techniques all the time.

I only found this community today while browsing some beading blogs, and love the way it is structured.

I tend to use Swarovskis as accent beads in my creations and have quite a few here in my boxes!

 

My Blog: Andrea's Random Lil Blog

Experience and Creativity

I graduated in Industrial Design in 1984, but worked in the IT industry for most of my life as a Business Analyst.

However I have been diagnosed with MS and could no longer work full-time. This forces me to stay home most of the time, but last year I found that I really enjoy beading and it has everything to do with my original design background.So, I am coming back to that field by creating necklaces and other jewlery pieces.

I have accumulated experince in illustration and graphic design, as well as textile design. Nowadays however, after working in the IT industry for almost 20 years, I have decided to move back to that area, which is more suited to my personality and way of life.

All the pieces I create are one-of-a-kind. Since I decided to do it as a hobby and mostly to replace drawing, I never repeat my designs. I can use a specific one as a starting point for a new design, though. In this case I repeat the name of the piece and add a serial number. But the pieces are never the same.

I think about beading as making drawings. It's the same creative process, but in a more abstract level, which I enjoy very much since it gives me more freedom and more immediate results.

Hobbies and Interests

- Beading, of course!

- Books;

- Japanese language;

- Manga and anime;

- Films ( especially Asian horror);

- Mythology;

- Colour theory;

- Perfumes.

Favorite Movies and Books

Books first...

- All books from Haruki Murakami, especially "The Wind Up Bird Chronicles";

- Amós Oz books;

- "Love in the Time of Cholera" and "A Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Márquez;

- All manga by Clamp and Rumiko Takahashi.

 

Then the Movies!

- "Pan's Labyrinth";

- "Babel";

- "Spirited Away";

- "My Neighbor Totoro";

- "Paprika";

- "Lost in Translation";

- "Central do Brasil";

- "Survive Style 5+";

- "Ringu";

- "Kamikaze Girls";

- "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams";

- "Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims";

- "Old Boy";

- "Lady Vengeance" etc...

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