Normally I don't talk much about my family on my weblog. Primarly because I strongly believe that my personal life should stay personal as much as possible and secondly since this blog simply is my way to share my creative endeavers with people who are interested.

Today I make a big exception mainly because of proud Momma stuff ;0)

This is Marjolein. She's the oldest of my two kids and yesterday we heard she graduated from the HAVO (school of higher secondary education). Although she thinks she wants to do something related to art like being an art teacher or interieurdesigner she didn't know for sure yet and therefore will stay on the same school for two more years to do VWO (pre-university education).

So congratulations to you my sweet Marjolein ♥

I've been sick all week with a stomicflue and therefore couldn't sit behind my hothead. I don't have a kiln and would hate to ruïn a bead just because I need to run to the you now what...

Anyway I wanted to change providers for a while and I ordered webspace and registered mariekuniek.com some weeks back. This provider not only is a lot cheaper but also already has proven to have a better helpdesk. The only barrier not to move my other domain was the fact my weblog program was still running there, but not anymore.

As of today my blog will be maintained from mariekuniek.com with a newer version of my blogprogram, for wich the people of the helpdesk were more than willing to install the missing drivers necessary. Something my other provider never wanted to do and not a moment to soon also!

The latest bad action of my other provider is that somehow a domain I registered for future use for the past three years and paid for to be registered till next year also, mysteriously was unregistered without my knowing and without any warning. Trouble is someone else already registered it and so now it's lost totally because they already started using it!

So that's definately the last drop, I'm gone there for sure and as soon as everything here is in order my other domain will be transfered too.

Another decision I made is that I want to drop the name Wolenzo for my weblog. I used it for many years now but it doesn't cover what I'm mostly talking about anymore. In the past when I first started blogging, wich by the way is way back longer than the current blogs archive shows, it was supposed to become a blog about woolstuff and a bit about my other crafts.

But now my interests have changed and developed in some totally different directions and I decided to simply name it weblog.mariekuniek.com and let go of wolenzo. The domain will be linked to this place, it's paid for untill next year althought since it's also is registered through my old provider you never know...

I hope both me and you enjoy it here!

P.s. (june 24th) I'm still working on the change, this afternoon I had to rearange my imagefolder and need to manually correct imagelinks in about more than 150 message you will see missing image signs until I've some time to correct them.

I'm still not totally satisfied with my results. A lot of times the beads don't turn out the way I was expecting. Sometimes the colors don't work well together and sometimes it's simply a mess because of my shaky hands. So I need to practice a lot more. I will not have much time next week thow because of other responsibilities and the week after we will go off to the South of France for 3 week-holiday.

Here are some examples from beads I made lately. I bought some basepins so I'm able to make pendants with 3 or 4 beads depending on the size of the beads.

I've been working on my encasing skills. It's pretty difficult not to make a mess of the basebead while encasing it with clear and to cover it equally without leaving room for the basebead to come to the service. I'm still practicing simple beads with one basecolor encased with a clear. Whenever I messed up I added dots on the places the base reached the service, wich I think is a nice way to cover up the bad spots ;0)

And this is a mix of different techniques... raised flowers, placing dots and working with stringers. I even tryed to swirl the hot glass. This particular time everything worked out fine and so I'm pleased with the way this set looks.

I hope once to be able to make beads like for instance Anastasia. She really makes awsome beads and is able to combine a very creative style with some perfect beadskills!