It is Here, It is Here!!! Bead Soup Blog Party Reveal Date 2014!!!

I want to extend my sincerest and Heartfelt Thank yous to LORI MCDANIEL ANDERSON!!!  Her amazing hard work in the face of serious illness and months of recovery is nothing short of Miraculous!!!  I also know that Lori had some much needed help from Lisa Liddy so many thanks to you as well Lisa.  there might be some others that were helping as well, so If I missed you I am truly sorry.  And last but certainly not least is Lori's Amazing and considerate and wonderful Husband and Lori's Sweet and great son!!! Thank you for all you do and just for being you!!!This is my second year of being able to do the BSBP!!!  I am having even more fun this year!!! I have 2 Fabulous partners and will blog about each separately.
This blog is about my Sweet New Friend in Sonora, California.  RAIN HANNAH!  Rain is smart and very very talented. She is also amazingly generous!

 When I got all of the amazing goodies I posted lots of pictures.  With all the issues with pictures today, I am just going to show you completed projects! LOL...I don't want to push my luck!!!  I love love love agates and jaspers and all of those types of stones and Rain gave some really beautiful ones to work with her. [In the blog with the pic etc... are also the names of the designers that made the clasp on this necklace and all of the names of the stones in this as well.  I used a few flat turquoise nuggets and some 6mm jasper rounds, and a few crystals etc... but the bulk of this necklace is all the fun beads that Rain sent.  I really love asymmetric designs and I really wanted to show off that amazing clasp so I used the printed sari silk as a chain on one side and the agates and chalcedony, flat freshwater pearl coins and the filler beads to make a double strand of yummmyness!!! I used the agate focal as a counter balance and added a couple of copper accent charms.  I love how this turned out.

I have a few pieces left to play with including a wonderful focal. so that will be done later.

 I knew when i saw the tile from Rain that I wanted to do what I call an assembled type of necklace.  I had some really nicely textured copper rings that do not open so I used o rings in bronze to link them together.  I usually use several types and colors of metal in this type of necklace.  This is very long and would work great with jeans and a t shirt or that great dress you just bought.  Just below here you will see a really good pic of the tile that Rain sent me!!!  I just love it!!!
 I used a copper leaf clasp and some japer rounds, an embossed key and some speaking tags to add movement and definition to the necklace.  I macrame the lampies that Rain sent in with copper spacers and flat coin pearls. I love the waxed linen cord she sent that was really fun to work with!!!  I used some czech pressed glass leaves, a couple of other charms  a lovely jasper pendant to keep the color and texture flowing from top to bottom!!!  there a couple of more pictures below this one  I had a Blast with this!  Hope you love it!!! Have a Blessed Day!

 Happy Dream Bead Blog Hop to everybody!!! When I got this bead I was like ...Wow that is really Pretty!!! Whatever am I  going to make with this beautiful bead??? I set it where I could see it and went on my merry way...lol!
Yesterday when I remembered it was this blog hop that was due I started thinking about my dreams.  What were/are they, where am I?  The answers were actually Right There, just waiting for me to ask I guess!

I purposely did not make a beautiful necklace or inspired bracelet.  It would have been easy, the bead is really that beautiful.  I made a dangle of crystal and the bead for my car. I spend a good chunk of my day in my car everyday!!! I Think a lot when I am driving...don't you?

It occurred to me that my dreams what I really really REALLY want is like this dangle...pretty little bits of glass and a beautiful bead.

Good ideas and fun thoughts and a great goal.  There is however no...SPARK...no energy...no movement!!!
Just like these crystal without direct light.  Pretty and fun but no Spark and No Movement!!

My Dreams are very simple.  I want to bead and bead well for the rest of my life.  I want my beads to pay me and my bills [mmmm not so simple]

Then when you turn a corner and the light hits the crystal...BAMMMMM there is your SPARK and YOUR MOVEMENT!!!

So today I turned a corner!!! Toltec Jewels thank you so much for lighting that SPARK with this Dream Bead Blog Hop!!!  

 My dreams are pretty and doable and lots of fun.
And everytime I turn a corner when I drive I will see that sparkle I will feel that SPARK!!!  The movement will be my getting the ball rolling for the on line store I have been talking about [pretty bits of crystal] for more than a year! Get the store open [SPARK and MOVEMENT]!

Pretty bits of glass

 SPARK and MOVEMENT!!!
Hope everybody Feels that Spark! Enjoy the Hop!  Thanks for the visit and let me know what you think!!!  Have a Blessed Day!

 Good Monday Evening to all of you!!!
This last Saturday was the first show of the
year for Artistry Handcrafted Bead Designs!!!

We had a BLAST!!!!, we also had a really good show!
We made some changes to our show set up this
year and i am blogging about it cause we just love the way it looks and we are really excited!!!

We decided that we needed just a bit more color, our base color is black.  Our business card color right now is green and white, with a Celtic design border.
So we decided to add green as our accent color...LOL




I went SHOPPING!!! I found 2 really cool
plaques that I could use on our new to us rack [it is black...lol]  We have a bit of a theme going with our props, I guess.  Mostly they are...wait for it...BLACK!!! LOL

 This 2 tier metal basket is what we put all of our
wrap bracelets in.

We got a couple of those cool books that open and don't have anything in them!  We had a blast with those.

 This is our Statement bracelet rack, it works really well for us.

 

Here is a really good example of how we used the book!  Looks great and in the end is sold well too, we sold 2 bracelets off of this book and one off of the other book.

 We use those Victorian looking ladies heads to
show some of our statement necklaces. The head is sitting on  a wrought iron looking pedestal that we this size and a smaller one.





Here is our Iron Lady, she shows
our more linear necklaces and bracelets.  She gets lots of comments and admiration.

 Here are a couple of the heads together and a hand as well.

 Some of our bracelets

 This is my partner in crime, my daughter Melody!
We work at every show, and we talk to people all the time and do lots of custom while they wait.

 Here is the color we went  with for contrast.  Really love the way it says Spring!!!




On this one you can see the candle holder [sconce] that we set on it's side and used for a bracelet rack.

The one below is a side view of our whole booth!

Bracelet stand and some of our different bracelets.

A different view. 

 I hope you enjoyed all the pictures.  Let me know what you think!!! Have a Blessed Day!

 

 HoneyandOllie.com [honeyandollie.com]  Rain Hannah's wonderful blog shows some of her amazing jewelry designs.  I got my "8th Bead Soup Blog Party" soup from Rainy today!!!  And it is amazing!!!


Browse thru my pictures, read the blog from earlier today and you get a sweet and talented picture of Rain Hannah!

 Pretty boxes with cool flowers. Great color scheme.

 So we have waxed linen [?] cord in slate and ivory,
vintage Sari Silk, luscious color and feel. Amozonite and chalcedony , tiger eye and handcrafted blown glass head pins!

The Fairytale tile from Rainy herself. The clasp in soft tealy blue/green is from Heather Powers, Humblebeads. Also in this picture are yellow opal and the czech glass flowers and the turquoise rondelles.

In this pic you also have the delicate and sweet white flowers and just behind them the golden coin pearls.

 In this pic I have my favorite stone...Agate!!! and then next to it is the wonderful lampwork [blown glass?] 2 handled urn. This is so amazing to me, it is closed with a cork and has 3-4 matching beads in glass that go with it.

 I think it is quite the haul and I can see being very busy with ideas!!! thanks again Rain Hannah!!!