Good Morning to you all...or should I say Top o' the mornin' to ya! Happy Sait Patricks day to all of my beady friends and all who will become my friends as well!!!
I am sitting here writing this...waiting for my photos to load...waiting...waiting...LOL
Any how let me introduce you to my new friend Rain Hannah, she is beautiful, sweet and very very very talented!  Her site is www.honeyandollie.com!  She does these amazing tiles out of bamboo with fairytale patterns on them!!! i was so hoping she would send me one or a dozen!!! LOL J.K.While i am working on this I am sitting here chowing down on the amazing choclate bar from Trader Joe's that she sent me! MMMMMM that and some coffee...MMMMM...LOL.

So while I am waiting I am going to tell what Rainy sent me and who made them and then I will have the pics! Ok [hey Rainy correct me if I get this wrong will you I took everything out of the bags]...LOL. From Havana beads, by Raida Disbron, I got 3 beautiful handcrafted [blown?] headpins. From Humblebeads, by Heather Powers, I got a fabulous turquoisey/tealy and copper clasp. From Julie Miller Glass, I got a seriously cool 2 handled urn of blown glass with a stopper and some really sweet smaller glass beads.  I got 3 beautiful enameled copper dangles from CKoop Beads. And then [Iknow right...bunches of fun goodies] from Too Aquarius Beads by Elaine Robitaille I got to lovely white flowers.  And then...and THEN I GOT A FAIRYTALE TILE FROM RAINY!!! thes are so seriously cool!!! I really love them.

Now you might think i am done right...mmm not so much!  on top of all of the really wonderful goodies from Great artists I got...are you ready...yellow opal,agate,amazonite,chalcedony,vintage sari silk,tiger eye,pearls,czech glass, and turquoise!!! Whew!!!  This amazing haul is going to be swirling in my head for just a bit, i already have ideas, heck I think my ideas have ideas...and isn't that the sign of a MASTERCRAFTED SOUP???  Thank you Thank you Thank you Rain Hannah for the boot to the butt to have me work with components I have never even seen let alone worked with!  Blessing to you all!  I will go ahead and publish this and then when I get the pics on here I will add!

I am really really REALLY STOKED!!!  I just got my partner of the 8th Bead Soup Blog party!!!  Her name is Rain Hannah!!  She creates the coolest jewelry pieces, really unusual and special designs! I can't wait to get to know her better! ! have a couple of soups simmering right now and i think all of the parts and pieces...ummm ingredients... just got to my house!!!  So when I get home I will be sorting thru and stirring and tasting to get just the right flavor for Rain!!!  If I can figure it out I will try a little teaser in the next day or two!  Stay tuned Soup is on the simmer and beads are gonna fly...ummm...swim...float...something!!! LOL  Rain's website is www.honeyandollie.com  Check it out!

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.