I am doing catch up with the bird a week challenge. I had to take a little break, but want to continue the challenge since I have come so far into the year. So, I sat down and drew and doodled whatever came to mind. And here are my Bird A Week for weeks 36 through 39:
I can’t believe it has been a whole year already! My main reason for starting my blog was prompted by my younger son going off to College. I also wanted to share my interests and passions. What started off mainly as a place to share my lampwork beads, jewelry, and doll making quickly evolved to add photography, digital graphics and scrapbooking. The more I blogged, the more fun things I discovered in the digital world. Now I just blog about whatever takes my fancy.
Today, I am again doing what I did exactly one year ago: helping my younger son move back to school; this time for his second year in college. I also wanted to thank everyone that have visited my blog and left kind comments by giving away a couple of my lampwork creations. I will have a random draw a week from today, on September 25, 2011. For those interested, just leave me a comment on this post. And here are my two creations; a lampwork vessel pendant, and lampwork beads bracelet. Both are all handmade and finished in sterling silver:
And again, thank you so much for visiting!
Welcome to the Bead Soup Blog Party (BSBP) Reveal! Lori Anderson of Pretty Things is again hosting this wonderful event! In a nut shell, the BSBP is a blog event where jewelry makers gather, are paired off, exchange beads, and make wonderful things with the beads they receive. For this party, I was paired off with the very kind and thoughtful Tracey Weiser of Summer Smack. Tracey sent me a most wonderful bead soup! For the moment, I was not able to find the photo of the beads she sent me, so I will just point them out as I go along. Tracey’s beads were a collection of earthy polished stones, wood, brass bird charm, and handmade copper clasp. I was able to use them all , and here are the things I made:
First off, I made this wire wrapped bracelet. I used the main focal Tracey sent me along with the small round stone beads. I added Czech polished beads, copper chain, and clasp:
For this necklace, I used the delicate off white stone (bone?) beads, brass bird charm, and handmade brass clasp from Tracey. I complemented them with cut glass beads, and Czech polished glass beads to achieve a more vintage feel. I really like the bird charm on the back of the necklace:
I used what remained of the white stone beads, combined them with Vintaj brass components, and finished them with copper lever back ear wires to make these earrings:
I glued on Vintaj components to the wood beads from Tracey with the polished stones and hung them on copper lever back earwires to make these earrings:
And for the last earrings, I dangled the tiny stone beads from some components I had:
And finally, I made a necklace for my Blythe Doll, Pinkie with what was left of the tiny stone beads:
That’s it. I just want to thank Lori Anderson for organizing this fun party, and to Tracey for being such a nice partner! Now for the list of participants and their blogs go to the Official Bead Soup Blog Party List ! Thank you for stopping by!
I am a lover of all beads, especially vintage beads. So when Vente of Vintage Beads From Europe approached me to try out some of her wonderful vintage bead mixes, of course I said Yes! Vente’s passion and interest led her to open her own on-line store where she offers a variety of soft and hard vintage plastic beads as well as metal findings and jewelry accessories. And here are the bead mixes she sent me:
Ideas are already spinning in my mind as to what to make with these fun beads – check back later to see what I come up with!
Here is the second update of Lori Anderson’s Cup Bead Soup where I am the artist of the month. Lori has come up with a gorgeous bracelet with the pink/orange beads I made:
Photo: Courtesy of Lori Anderson, Pretty Things
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The Diva has challenged us this week with the theme “Love Is All You Need” in rememberance of all those who perished and were affected by the tragedy of 9/11 ten years ago. My idea of Love is Family; our immediate families, our community, country, and global families:
I found this weeks assignment pleasantly freeing. The style of art was to do a “Jackson Pollack”. I chose my favorite colors, and just went at it:
I’m getting behind with so many things lately. Life just kind of happens. I love to zentangle, so I do make a point of completing the weekly challenges. This week, the diva challenged us to use the tangle Paradox, and here is my tangle:
For this weeks student choice, I did the Draw A Cat lesson:
I have been obsessively working through my PSE class. Since I just signed up for the Photography class to learn how to better utilize my SLR camera, and I want to sign up for the Designer’s class coming up in October, I thought I would try and finish the PSE class as soon as possible. One of the tutorials utilized a site called Wordle. I found it interesting enough that I thought I’d share. You can basically create “word clouds”. I used it to make this layout:
You type in words, and it arranges it in different ways. I think this is such a neat and useful toy.
Lori Anderson of Pretty Beads has extended my Cup Bead Soup Artist for the month of August into September – yay! And here is her first creation. She has made a beautiful chandelier pull – it never occured to me to make them out of hollow beads:
You can go to Lori’s Cup Bead Soup Blog for more on this beautiful creation.
(Photo courtesy of Lori Anderson)
I like drawing vintage style characters, so for this week, I drew a chick with a bonnet:
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