Wire Style 2 Giveaway

Hello all! Hop on over to Lorelei's Blog for your chance to win an excellent prize!! She is going to randomly draw a winner Wednesday March 16th for the chance to win a copy of Denise Peck's Wire Style 2 book AND a great stash of beads, wire and chain to make one of the projects!! How COOL!!!! Run on over! :) Enjoy!

Fusion Beads Reader Challenge: Blog Hop

Hello all! Welcome! Where do I begin with these? To say that I have been itching to reveal these designs is an understatement!

Right before Christmas Lorelei Eurto posted THIS blog post. I jumped at the chance to join and began shopping right away! The only component that I could not get was the lucite walnut leaf charms. I did find some on Etsy in a chocolate brown and ordered them....but, alas, I could NOT wait to start on my designs, so they never made it in the finale!

The RULES: "For this challenge, you may create whatever you'd like. A necklace, a bracelet, earrings, whatever! Feel free to add in as many components as you want, your own focal, beads from your stash, but just make sure to try to use these components in your final piece."

This picture was the first piece I made. The necklace started with the Green Girl Studios clasp as my focal. It was to be a clasp as well, but, I am sure you all know about "the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray". No matter how well you plan something, always expect the unexpected! I added Ruby Fuschite and Picture Jasper gemstone ovals, tiny Bali Silver nugget spacers, and I used a silver Hill Tribes clasp bar to the side to finish it up. My all time favorite about the design? I am now in LOVE with drop seed beads!! They lay great!!

The bracelets came to me as I was drinking my morning coffee one Sunday, and skimming through a People Magazine my mom had left behind. There was a picture of Taylor Swift with an arm FULL of wooded bead bracelets...all layered upon each other! My brain screamed ELASTIC BRACELETS!!! And off I went! My coffee got cold :(
I am not a bead shopper at our local Wal-Mart. To be blunt....most are crap! Sorry Wal-Mart! Buuuut, I did find some great olive green suede cord and gunmetal findings, you know...just in case in could use them in my designs! I used the green suede and the leather cord Lorelei chose to tie the set of elastic bracelets together. I then made a single, drop seed bead, strand bracelet, with another GGS owl clasp to layer on top of the elastic set. Voila!
Lastly, we have the earrings. You know I am not much into making matching sets, but that Lorelei.....she picked some FANTASTIC beads! The earrings were inspired by Michelle Mach's Under the Midnight Sky earrings that were showcased in January's issue of Bead Trends.

The earrings are made using beads from the challenge, gunmetal findings, bali silver beadcaps, and a set of GGS small owl charms.

Thank you all for stopping in! Thank you SO much to Lorelei Eurto for hosting this fantastic challenge! Hop on over to the other challenge members' blogs to see their designs. I KNOW I will there reading, looking, drooling, oooing and ahhhing!

http://lorelei1141.blogspot.com/
http://erinsiegeljewelry.blogspot.com/

http://beadingbymalindekoning.blogspot.com/
http://beadhappytoday.blogspot.com/

http://thebeaddreamer.com/blog
http://dreamsomedesigns.blogspot.com/
http://fryestyle.blogspot.com/
http://www.madmaggiedesigns.blogspot.com/ You are Here!!!
http://reginaswritings.blogspot.com/


http://www.mylifeunderthebus.typepad.com/
http://jennibead.blogspot.com/
http://maryhardingjewelrybeadblog.blogspot.com/
http://silverrosedesigns.blogspot.com/
http://lindalandig.wordpress.com/


http://fireflymyst.blogspot.com/
http://www.awishandacloud.blogspot.com/
http://spiritrattles.blogspot.com/
http://formysweetdaughter.blogspot.com/


http://songbeads.blogspot.com/
http://beautifullybrokenme.blogspot.com/
http://threeredbeads.blogspot.com/
http://christinec3.blogspot.com/

A Sneak Peak

Hello all! Here is a sneak peak at ONE of my designs for Lorelei Eurto's Fusion Beads Reader Challenge. I am telling you, she picked some GORGEOUS beads....in fact the muse has not hit me like this in awhile!! Necklace, earrings and multiple bracelet's were made with these beads! Can NOT wait for the big blog reveal, 01-10-11!

Sisterhood of the Traveling Beads!!!

Are you a bead lover? If you are, then head over to Lorelei's Blog for your chance to win the Sisterhood of the Traveling Beads!! Good Luck!! :)

Thank You!!!

(Photos courtesy of Lorelei Eurto)

Hello! Happy Monday to you all! I wanted to drop in and say a BIG "Thank You" to Lorelei Eurto! She had a great swap a few months back, exchanging earrings that she made for some new beads/components for jewelry making.

She recently listed a bracelet in her Etsy shop made with one of the components I sent her. It was a last minute "throw in" kind of piece, as I really was upset that it did not turn out the way I saw it in my head. Typical. But she must have liked something about it to add it to one of her designs. And I must say, I REALLY like the bracelet! She showed me the possibilities of the charm I made, and that has had me falling asleep at night with a smile on my face, as I drift off creating more pieces in my head.....ahhhh, jewelry bliss!

So, Thank You Lorelei! You have lit the fire that was growing cold in my creativity department!!! YAY!

Makes Me Smile

Found this on Lorelei Eurto's Blog and she said that it made her smile.....it made my husband and I smile and clap out loud! Take a look!