Grow Your Blog

Welcome to my "Grow Your Blog Party" everyone !!!

I am so happy when I read about this event. Grow Your Blog was designed by Vicki to bring more readers and Followers to our blog. I guess this is what I need to invite more friends to visit my little blog. I am just started this blog no more than a year ago and this blog mostly about my hobby and my passion which is Handmade Jewelry making.

Let me start by introducing myself to all of you.
My name is Asri. I am Indonesian who is now living in Indiana,USA, far away from my home country.
Since I was a little girl I always been a crafty person. I started with making my own clothes *it was a simple one, a skirt* at age 15.
My interest in making clothes was because my mom was a seamstress, well she is still a seamstress right now. And I grew watching and helping her with her work. So she inspired me a lots.
And then I finally decided to learned to make embroidery instead of going to college, so in my early twenties I am working with my mom in our small boutique in Blora,Central Java Indonesia.
These picture below are my embroidery I have made a few years ago.

After married and then have a baby, I moved to United States for my husband Master and Phd degrees. And from that moment, my interest on crafting has changed. Since I could not bring my embroidery machine with me, I started to find another hobby to fill my crafty mind. I end up made a lots of cross stiched projects during my stay in the US. Until we moved back to my home country Indonesia.

I started making jewelries after a nice young lady in Craft store in Indonesia taught me How to make a headpins. It was very popular item in Indonesia back then. And from that moment, I guess I kinda starting to like making jewelry. I started to make my own  necklaces, earings and bracelets. And starting to sell them.

My pins/brooches I have made three years ago

It was my favourite brooch 

In 2012 my  family got another chance to stay in United States. This time I fallen in love with seed beads. I made some bracelets using only seed beads. It was time consuming, but I loved it.

And I also started bloging and documenting my work, so in my blog, you will see lots of story, about challenges I have joined or some new jewelry I have made. I also try playing with new media such as polymer clay and soutache braid. And it is fun to mix them in one design, you can see some of them here. And if you want to see some of my polymer clay beads collections you can see here My polymer clay applique beads. 

For this event I am giving away this lovely Black and Yellow pendant/pin.  Anybody have a chance to enter, just leave a comment and give a Like in my page.Asribeadswork Facebook Page. One winner will randomly selected and I will announce the winner on February 15th 2014. And please write your name and email address so I can contact you if you win. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you like it :-D. Please head over to Vicki's blog to check out another almost 600 participants. Woooww

PS: Just found out that I have not put my Follower button until today, please do follow me if you like.