~ My Bead Soup Blog Party 6 Reveal ~

Wow!

What a fun and wonderful learning experience for me!

My partner for this party is Debbie Price from

Green Shoot Jewellery Designs.

When I hurredly opened the package that came

in the mail, I was so excited and a little nervous, as I

havent branched away much from my "norm".

I usually always work with dark metals,

hand blackened brass etc, so when I saw the

light, shiny *bling* I was excited to work with something new!

This is the Soup Ingredients and lovely card that I received from Debbie:

And a close up of each yummy piece:    :)

I absolutely love that clasp,

how beautifully vintage, a large crystal jewel!

The heart attached to the key with the chain there was actually a

brooch pin set. I wish I had thought of taking a photo of the back

of each one before I removed the pins and smoothed them down

but that's okay. I also removed the chain.

In my finished piece I used the two focals (heart & key),

the gorgeous vintage silver clawed jewel clasp,

the large silver filigree ball with the row of sparkling jewels around it,

the chain of jewels,

two of the small silver bejeweled spacer beads

and 4 of the charcoal faceted glass beads.

I envisioned the finished necklace after only a few minutes

of looking through my own stash and immediately knew

that I wanted to use silk ribbon in a bright color,
so I searched for the perfect color - fuchsia it was!
I turned a bright silk shirt that was probably quite fashionable
in the early '90's in to some gorgeous silk ribbon that is much
more fashionable now!!

Some silver wire and a tassle dangling from the heart finished
it of perfectly.

I LOVE IT!!!

I hope you do too!

Wanna hop along and check out some (or all!) of the other
participants? Check 'em HERE

My Bed Soup ingredients arrived!!

WOW!!!

I'm so stoked!!!

My Bead Soup ingredients have finally

arrived! It was a long trip from the UK to Canada.

I was starting to get a bit worried but figured,

I moved in to a new house 2 days ago

so I would'nt be able to touch them yet anyways.

What a pretty card she sent as well!

She did a great job at going out of my element,

Since I havent dove very far in to jewelry design

quite yet I havent worked with a lot, I have yet to make

a necklace that isnt hand blackened brass.

These ingredients are so yummy looking,

I have an idea or two swirling about but I'm

going to let them & my brain simmer a bit before I

decide exactly what I'm going to do.

My partner is Debbie Price and her

blog is Green Shoot Jewellery Designs.

If you havent gone to check out her blog yet,

you're missing out!

As a recap in case you havent seen it,

here is the Soup ingredients that I sent her

to work with:

I am so excited to see what becomes of

these ingredients!!!

If you would like to peruse through

the other 398 participants in the

Bead Soup Blog Party

above is the link - be careful! It's quite addicting

going through looking at all of the amazingly

gorgeous Soups that people have sent to each other!

Also, over at the Bead Soup Cafe (Bead Soup's Facebook group)

there is a photo album with all of the

soups being uploaded as they arrive to their

recipients.

My partner and I have the 1st reveal date,

which is Saturday, July 28th.

Come back then to see what becomes of these

pretty ingredients!

Bead Soup! - What I sent my partner

I am so stoked about the 

Bead Soup Blog Partay!!

My partner, the lovely Debbie Price of

Green Shoot Jewellery Designs

has received the yummy Bead Soup that

I sent her. I am oh so excited to see what she does

with it!! I chose to go with earthy tones, I

dont have much of a stash so I shopped for the 

soup just for her. These beads spoke to me

and wanted to make a new life on the other

side of the world in the UK!!

This is what I sent her:

I feel bad because just a couple of days ago

I realized that the grey clover bead didnt make it in 

with the rest! I am moving to a new home

this weekend and when I lifted up my drawer unit

it was hiding underneath - I guess he was afraid to fly!!

I am nervous because I still havent received my soup...

Not that I could play with it yet anyhow - everything 

is packed up and ready to move! 

I really do hope it comes Friday, then

I wont have to worry about it all weekend!!

I'm so excited to move - and have a studio double

the size! With its own sliding doors to the yard :)

I'm going to be more organized at the new place - I swear...

Anyways, I hope you all love the ingredients

that I chose for Debbie's Soup, I will post photos

of mine as soon as the ingredients arrive!

~~*Sending inspirational creative vibes to all my fellow Soupers*~~

Sneak Peek....!

So.......

I have a super hard time keeping presents a secret,

Christmas time is bittersweet, having to

wait and not give recipients their gifts but it's oh so 

awesome when they finally get to open them!!

I thought that I would give you all

a sneak peek of the Bead Soup that I sent

to my wonderful partner Debbie Price of

Green Shoot Jewellery Designs!

I think it will help with the next to 

unbearable excitement about the whole 

Bead Soup experience!

So here they are! 

The beautiful beads and bobs that I chose for

Deb, I really hope that she loves them, after 

this is over and when I have the extra time, I would 

LOVE to work with all that I sent her. 

I dont have much of a stash at all to be honest, so I went

shopping and bought her exactly what I would have

chosen to work with myself. 

So without further adieu....

Yay!!! 

That was fun! 

Hahaha! A bit of a hint for you :)

I really hop that they get there soon, 

Canada to the UK....

I'm crossing my fingers & toes that they will

be in her mailbox even tomorrow!!!

Breaking my mold - and loving it!

With Bead Soup coming up soon

and the fact that I've mostly stayed within

a similar style for the past 6 months or so

Ive decided to break free of my norm

and play with some other styles.

Ive always had a vision for what I wanted to

do and create and until now (because of health issues

mixed in with personal finance issues) I havent been

able to play and create as I really wanted to.

I'm always attracted to the "different" & unique.

After being so incredibly inspired

by such groups as Bead Soup Cafe

and Polymer Clay Collective on top of not

having to worry about putting every penny

towards food and rent and still coming out behind,

 I feel like I'm exploding with creativity - because I can.

I'm so excited to say that Ive gone and

bought myself some polymer clay to play with

and am going to finally be getting my metal smithing

tools and materials and so happy to be on the road

that I've been wanting to be on for so long.

I've broken from my mold and while I'm waiting

for some of my goodies to come in the mail,

 I thought I would create something using things

that I had on handbut nothing that I usually

would use.

I LOVE fresh water pearls and anything mother

of pearl at all. Especially buttons!

(Anyone that knows me knows I have quite the

button collection! Check out this amazing Mother

of Pearl button photo frame I made, there are a couple more

in that album as well.

I had all of my beauties in front of me and remembering

how I had instantly fell in love with a

Staci Louise Originals necklace, I was instantly

inspired.

This is the beauty that I created.

I.LOVE.IT

I hope you love it too!

I wont be putting this up in the shop, if I can part

with it, it will be for purchase at the Mission Fest

booth that I will be having on August 11th.

Bead Soup Blog Partay!! A challenge awaits....

I'm all signed up for the

Bead Soup Blog Party and am super stoked about it!

Usually this party is done by lottery but this

time anyone is welcome to sign up, making

it a pretty large event!!

Sign ups are now over and the list is up -
a whopping 397 talented artists have signed
up for this super fun swap!
And 4 of them are Danas!! :)

If you dont know how it works, it goes like this:
Lori, from the blog Pretty Things will pair me up with 
someone. I'll go look through
my partner's blog, shop and/or facebook
to have a look at what type of jewelry style that she creates.
From that knowledge, I will try to challenge my partner by
sending her a bead soup of a completely different
style than her usual creations.
She will do the same for me, it's meant to challenge
each other to use different styles and techniques than
we are used to.

The bead soup needs to consist of:
A focal
Coordinating spacers or beads
and a special clasp that cant just be a plain lobster claw.

I'm super stoked! I have a couple of bead soups here
that Ive put together for my partner and depending
on what style she is, she may get one or the other,
or maybe even a mixture - we'll see!