Thursday, November 10, 2011

Project 2

Beading Babes November



I began the Beading Babes Project 2 for November, you can check out Beading Babes by clicking here.

I started working on the Earthly Hues necklace by Carole Ohl shown in the Beadwork Aug/Sept 2010 issue. I chose a purple color scheme with Cherry Quartz Glass for the 12mm beads. I'll try and get clearer pictures for the finished necklace reveal. Thank you for visiting!



Sunday, November 6, 2011

I Heart Macro

I Heart Macro Marbles

This is my first I Heart Macro and I chose to take photos of some marbles I have sitting in a dish in my studio. I was curious to see what colors would stand out, how the depth would show and how the light would reflect or absorb. I think they turned out fairly interesting.







Thank you for Visiting!

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Welcome to Wisconsin!

A Visit From A Friend

Last week Therese from Therese's Treasures visited Wisconsin and we got together for an afternoon. If I used one word to describe what I thought of our get together I would say enlightening. You can read all about our visit at Therese's blog by clicking here. You can see the wonderful gifts she gave me which included an absolutely beautiful bracelet she made. Therese is truly a wonderful person and a good friend.

What I am going to talk about today is something I shared with her which was that I am going to redesign my blog. There are things I have been thinking about doing and have taken steps to do though I haven't shared them here yet and I would like to. I plan to continue making jewelry and participating in challenges and I also want to include my soap making and other things I enjoy doing, taking pictures, and visiting with friends. 

So to get started I am going to go grab the I Heart Macro button and start taking pictures...come back on Sunday to see them. 

Thank you for visiting!





Sunday, September 25, 2011

Thank You!


I wanted to make a post to say Thank You to everyone who left a comment on my blog. I will also be answering all the comments, along with continuing to blog hop, I want to visit all the participants blogs and will over time.  You can find all the participants by following this link Bead Soup Blog Party. A big Thank You also to Lori who did a wonderful job, it was a lot of fun and continues to be. There are blogs that I've found I want to revisit and blogs that I haven't been to yet but will. 


One of the things that happened for me through the blog hop was...I had mentioned in a comment on Lori's blog that I would love to learn to bead weave. I received an email from Shirley who does just beautiful work. She gave me some places to check out where I could learn bead weaving. I did check it out and the picture below is my practice piece I made.  If you follow my blog you know I love seed beads! I am now working on a bracelet which I will post when it's complete. I will likely continue bead weaving I believe I'm hooked! :)


Thank you for visiting!

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Bead Soup Blog Party

Thank you for stopping by my blog. 
This is the Bead Soup I received from my partner Kelly of Silver Parrot.


Kelly sent so many wonderful beads I had a lot of fun 
and created three pieces.  
Thank you Kelly!




( Ceramic Beads in this photo are from Jennifer Jangles)


Here are the links to all the participants in the Bead Soup Blog Party. 

Have Fun! 
Thank You for Visiting!

The Hostess, Lori Anderson and her partner, Manuela Wutschke


19. Anna Sabina­­­­ and Erin Siegel