I'm so EXCITED!

It's that time of year....Lori Anderson of Pretty Things is hosting her wonderful Bead Soup Blog Part!  Yippee!  I'm so Excited...and I just can't hide it.... (can you tell I'm channelling the Pointer Sisters?)

The countdown begins....  Check out Lori's blog post to see the list to date!  It's a HUGE list!
Bead Happy!
Michelle

Bead Soup Party Reveal!

The big day is here!  The big reveal has arrived for the Bead Soup Part being put on by Lori Anderson.

These are my ingredients from Susan who will reveal--on the 25th--what she made from the ingredients I sent her.

Are you ready???????

(Copper Beach)

I've never done any work before with cord and decided to give it a try with this piece.  I used a variety of Czech glass beads, Japanese seed beads, some freshwater pearls, wavy copper spacers (love these), kyanite,some stone briolettes (I don't remember the stone) and some lovely spacer beads from Keri Fuhr which I picked up from her at the Bead & Button show.  All of this was knotted using a rusty orange S-Lon cord.

Here is a close-up of the pendant....I also used some enameled copper jump rings from Blue Buddha which I picked up last year at Bead & Button. 

I made the S-hook (I still have to hammer it a bit but the studio is in shambles since last week when we got a ton of rain that also went into the basement where the studio is).  I used 16 gauge copper wire and accented it with a finer gauge of gold-tone craft wire.

Here are earrings that I also made....I was on a roll and just loved the ivory spacers from Keri.

It's not done yet, but using the toggle from Susan, I'm making a bracelet with 8 strands of the same technique as in the neckstrap.  I was on a roll....but duty calls...I must start working on the newsletter for the shop!

Hope you enjoyed the entree and the side.  I hope to post a picture later this week of the bracelet. 

Bead Happy!

The Big Reveal Countdown.....

The Bead Soup Party blog hop that Lori Anderson is hosting is counting down....The BIG reveals happen over the week from June 19 to June 26.  I'm number 45 so my reveal will happen on June 22!  I'm so excited to see what everyone has made.  Lori has the full list of all the participants.

Saturday, June 19th -- blogs 1-13

Sunday, June 20th -- blogs 14-26

Monday, June 21st -- blogs 27-36

Tuesday, June 22nd -- blogs 37-47

Wednesday, June 23rd -- blogs 48-59

Thursday, June 24th -- blogs 60-71

Friday, June 25th -- blogs 72-84

Saturday, June 26th -- blogs 85-97

Will you blog hop to the party?

It's a Tasty Bead Soup Party

Ok...I've done it...I've joined Lori's Bead Soup Party. 

 

This one will sure to be a tasty Treat!  Be sure to bop on over to Lori's Blog to get the scoop about this fun and lo-cal cuisine! 

I can't wait to see what everyone makes!