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:
This week’s assignment was to draw a sketch of jewelry, preferably one handmade by self. I chose one of my favorite types of jewelry to make; orange earrings. We live in a small grove, and I just love the look of little dangling oranges:
The actual sketch is not that bad, the scanner makes it look all washed out.
I made a second layout with Created By Jill Scraps kit “Bloomin”. The layout reminded me a bit of the 70’s, so I found some nostalgic Partridge Family images to use (Yahoo images). I was a little kid then, but I remember watching the TV show. I even owned that exact album!
And here is the freebie for you to download:
For this weeks challenge, we were to do a tangle based on grids. And here is what I came up with:
I recently got to play with Created By Jill Scraps kit “Bloomin”:
Here is the layout I made. I used a vintage photo of a mother and daughter from Altered Artifacts:
And here is the freebie for you to download:
I will have a second QP freebie. Check back in a couple of days.
This week’s lab was again student’s choice. I decided to do a mandala:
For this weeks challenge, I decided to do a layout featuring our dog Hiro with his bird toy:
This is what happens when you’re home from college, no gainful summer employment, and sleeping until 3:00pm: You become the victim subject of your mother’s latest obsession interest – photography! I found another challenge, a photography/scrap layout one. The challenge was to photograph a person or animal jumping. Since my eldest is back at his apartment, my daughter has a bum knee from ACL surgery, and tossing our already neurotic poodle in the air was out of the question, the task fell on my younger son. When he woke at 3:00pm, I marched him outside and had him jump several times while I attempted to take “action” shots. He didn’t even have time to put on his contacts – he is wearing his “cool Martin Scorsese glasses” (as he puts it) – I offered to put masking tape on it :-). And here are my/his efforts:
And here is the layout I made for the challenge:
I had a lot of fun. And younger son proceeded to go to our local Family Services Organization for his volunteer work :-).
This week, the Diva has challenged us to do a zentangle with the new tangle “Assunta” by Rick & Maria of Zentangle. I had fun with this one:
I sat at my table today on an off for hours just putting things together, then putting them aside. It seems I have “beaders block” – if there is such a thing. If I am participating in a challenge, it inspires me, and I am full of ideas, but to just sit and create, it’s just not happening right now. Maybe I just need to take a small break. Maybe I should go back and finally finish my Izannah Walker doll :-).
Here is what I fiddled around with today… I love these colors:
I can’t seem to stop doing challenges and layouts. Here is one of my daughter when she was a sweet little thing – before she turned into the teenager who knows everything! 🙂 Just kidding – she’s a great girl :-):
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