Just got a Post from the AMAZING Lori Anderson about the 8th Bead Soup Blog Party!!!  I am IN!!!  I am soooooo excited!!!

Last year was my first year and it was such an AMAZING experience!!!  I met the wonderfully talented Rana Wilson!!! She makes a lot of different types of jewelry and she was really great to work with!!!
I learned different techniques and how to work with different mediums!!!

Then there is the Blog Party itself!  WOW!! There are an amazing amount of talented designers out there.

This year I want to improve on the experience!  I want to send  a GREAT soup not just a good one!!!
I am looking at  all the wonderful women that I know now [thanks to Lori and BSBP] that are designers, lampwork geniuses and wire work gurus!!!  This is going to be a Blast.  So first order of business is to find an amazing focal and clasp.  Those are the 2 Big pieces in the soup!  We can add different components and coordinating beads if we want to.  The important thing is to send a really cool, different, maybe OOAK [one of a kind] Focal and Clasp!  So that is where i am going to start!!!

Hope if you are in the BSBP that you have as wonderful and exciting first time as I did!!!
Lots of Hugs and Prayers!!! Have a Blessed Day!!!

www.BeadSoupBlogParty.com

So I am trying to get all of the important details ironed out for the wonderful Bead Soup Blog Party.  I got the badge and the url and now I just have to hope they work.  If you are not familiar with  The Bead Soup Blog Party, you are missing an Amazing event!!!

I saw the book last year and was really intrigued by it.  So I messaged the Wonderful and Amazing Lori McDaniel Anderson, the brains behind the whole event, and to make a long story short, I started blogging I was in the 7th Bead Soup Blog Party and my life has been forever changed!!!  I really hope that you consider joining us!  It is an amazing and wonderful and FUN experience that can be life altering!!!

I got it done!!! I got it done!!! This little design has been running around in my head for days and days!

I did not know what color to use and I had not figured out a style but the...hmmmm you know if you slide the sari silk [I think I am addicted LOL] in thru here and knot here and then...well it worked out pretty well.

I wanted something funky and smart, worthy of the great Bracelet Bar from BluMudd!!!

I don't usually use just one color of metal findings and I didn't here either.  I love the melding of colors and the richness of them all together.  I really had fun with this challenge.  I have to thank Lisa for letting me Play!!!

First off I need to apologize, I have not been on my blog in several weeks.  Life has decided to get really complicated in a hurry and I could not carve out the time to be here!!!  That being said, I really wanted to show you my idea of Fall, October and all that it means to me!!!

I uploaded some pictures to the Bead Soup Cafe site and I am going to try to import those.  The Pictures are of a necklace that I created with my most favorite type of bead.  Jaspers.  It has some beautiful variations of browns and greens with cream and rust.  All the colors of a Northern Indiana fall!!!  I added some  crystals in an opaque color of lime green. I had some rectangle rusty agates and some round rusty agates and...LOL

I also used the leaf half of one of my favorite clasps in copper and an owl [I am really hooked on those] and a Dragonfly too.
Everything that means fall to me is in this necklace, the colors, the mix and mingle of late summer to nearly winter color and feel.  The fall of the leave and the late summer dragonfly and the fall Owls, this is what I see when i see and feel October!!!
I hope everybody has a safe and wonderful Halloween and a wonderful work week coming up!  Be Blessed!

Hi everybody!!! This post is for the Hoarder's Blog Hop set up by the Wonderful Lori McDaniel Anderson!!!
When she posted this I just rolled my eyes at me and said this is one I need to enter cause I have TONS of Hoarded beads!!! The "I will do this one later", the "what was I thinking", the "OMG [hand over eyes]", LOL.
So I went through all of my beads and this box and that box and on and on and on...and finally decided on this set of beads and things.

I apologize for the pictures but I am still using my phone...Blah!!! This Necklace is full of charms and jaspers and crystals and mother of pearl.  These are things I use all the time, but
I put them together with chain I assembled with repurposed  links from 2 different chains and ribbons form a repurposed necklace.


The center piece, even though it is not in the center is a beautiful Jasper that I got at a bead show a couple of years ago!!! These I don't want to let go of because they are my Favorites!!!

The rest of these pictures are of all of the components and how it looks over all!!! I had a wonderful time doing this and got a great necklace out of it!! One that I would wear and hate to sell [I probably will sell it but...]  Hope you have fun Blog Hopping!  Thank you so much for Hopping by!!! Have a great and Blessed Day!!!

Jaspers and M.O.P and Bronzy metal charms.

Hand Painted word charm, the jasper and some charms

Closeup of the smaller jaspers.

I got a message on facebook yesterday from the Wonderful Rita of Toltec Jewels.  She wanted to know if I still wanted to post for the Summer Elements Blog Hop that I had signed up for a few weeks ago!  I messaged her back that I had completely forgotten about it and that I did not know if I could get anything done for it because I had to work the next 5 days straight... She Messaged me back saying to take my time and that if I wanted to post she would help... She is such a sweet sweet lady!!!  So I am thinking about all of the pieces I had made and all of the beads I have to use and I just STOP!!!  Yesterday the Outstanding Sondra Jackson sent me a package for the person to person swap we have going with a different group!!!

Guess what she sends me??? That's right... Summer Beach Hut colors!!! I was soo excited when I got the package that I just started designing!! Now remember, this was nearly 10:30 at night after a busy 12hr. shift and here I am just flying through the designs!!! LOL  I was that INSPIRED!!! So here are the pictures of the last design I made!  It is my favorite!  Lucite flower petals and crystals[of course] and sea colored mop and then I added a key and a pretty butterfly and some sweet silver leaves!  It just flew together!! They don't normally!

So Yes I will post and I really want to Thank Rita and Sondra because getting this posted made me figure things out.  How to get the pictures from my phone to the blog, how to download an app for my phone how to not tear out what little hair I have!!!LOL

 All in all this was just entirely too much Fun!!! Thanks again!!!  The next thing I need to learn it how to get you all to the rest of the bloggers.  Maybe next time???  Have a Blessed Day!

Good Monday Morning to all of my wonderful beady friends!!! We had a really good show this weekend and, though we worked hard it was a lot of fun!!!  I have pictures posted on my regular facebook page  with our set up and the jewelry we had.  A lot of that is gone now!!! Yeah!!!  We talked to  lots of people got a lot of pieces created and just had so much fun!!!
Our next show is June 7-9 and is a really great music festival that is outside.  We have a good tent and I really hope that the weather is good!!
I will be posting the pictures of our set up either tonight or tomorrow night.  It will depend on my energy level after a 13hr day today.  This is not a high stress or labor intensive job but after that long anyone would be tired then I have to drive nearly 3/4 of an hour to get home.  So we will just see how it goes!!!  Remember you are all well Loved!!!