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| Shipping destination | Cost | Additional items |
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| United Kingdom | £5.00 | £2.50 |
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Hello and welcome! It's December and the festive season will be with us very soon. I have an array of beautifully handcrafted Beaded Beasties frames that would make unique gifts or decor pieces. I hope you will enjoy looking at them.
This page is home to Beaded Beasties: mixed media box frames of dragonflies and other creatures in a mini environment. Each one unique, made from new and recycled materials. I hope you love what you see.
Do please also take a look at my other page: DArTworld - Digital Imaginings for greetings and occasion cards and prints.
This piece was 'born' when I matched the pearl jewellery and the icicle decoration to make a distinctive and striking dragonfly which inspired the rest.
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Was £25 Now £20
The title Winter Emperor might suggest something of legendary status and this dragonfly is definitely a worthy candidate! The real-life emperor dragonfly is one of the UK's largest.
This bead version is made from a large teardrop-shaped pearl jewellery piece added to a silvered icicle decoration making it 18.5 cm (7.25 ins) long. Two silver-coloured mesh chains have been wrapped around the icicle spiral giving extra bulk. Multi-crystal beads have been used for the eyes. The wings are made from printed acetate film.
The background setting uses a crocheted wire bracelet dotted with beads and larger glass crystals that, with a little imagination, resemble a snowman in front of a bare winter hedge! All around, ring links and larger silver washers are stylised falling snow and an ice crusted tree stands to one side. A silver beaded disc represents the late afternoon moon and gunmetal-coloured snake chain forms a landscape silhouette along the bottom completing an unusual and inventive scene.
The black box frame is 25.5 cm (10 ins) square and 4.5 cm deep with a saw-tooth hanger on the back. This Beaded Beastie artwork would make an ideal gift for any insect lover and can be displayed all year long, either as a wall hanging or propped on a shelf or mantlepiece.
Designed by Derrick Armitage in Scottish Borders
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