Saturday, June 16, 2012

Bead Soup Party

The 6th Bead Soup Party ..  Bead Soup   ..  starts in July and goes thru August and Lori has asked us to provide some background as to how we started in jewelry design.  I graduated from high school in 1972 - yep 40 years ago when flower power/hippies were pretty much the order of the day.  I grew up near Olympia, WA and at that time Shipwreck Beads was a small store west of Olympia on Mud Bay Flats.  It was a wonderful place to go to on a rainy Saturday and Olympia has lots of rainy Saturdays.  I would go there, sort through grams and pounds of beads to pick out that one special bead or string of beads, then off to Mike Cook's Antiques in Olympia or Garden Gate Antiques in Yelm to find clasps.  Back in those days colored embroidery thread conditioned with beeswax was used to make the necklaces and bracelets.  I moved to Spokane, WA in 1981, stopped beading and started in ceramics.  Fast forward to 2005, I was preparing to retire from my job and knowing that my husband and I were going to travel, I wanted a hobby that didn't take up a lot of space (ha!).  So a couple of bead magazines later followed by discussions and help from a friend who works at Wonders of the World bead store I entered the 21st Century of Beading.  I create pieces for personal use, gifts to family members and friends and also as donations to women's transition programs.  I mostly do stringing or bead weaving.       
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012


Lots going on in my world at this time so have been beading not as often.  
Did complete this for a friend.  
She supplied the focal and traded me three other focals for the work. 
Works well for me.



 
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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Norse Rune

Created a necklace a few years ago for the youngest son who is involved in Amtgard/SCA activities.  Short version - the rune was cracked/chipped by another person.  I had another rune created to replace it and finished the necklace recently.  So .....




and this was the old one -



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Friday, March 16, 2012

Treewings Studio GiveawayS

What wonderful giveaways - yes plural.  The cowgirl in me loves the horses. The beader in me wants the fox and friends.   Such pretty things.

http://www.treewingsstudio.com/2012/03/giveaway.html?showComment=1331949222357#c5207341991327315461
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Tis the Season - for gifting

Happy Mango Beads has a Mardi Gras giveaway also

http://blog.happymangobeads.com/2012/02/win-the-mardi-gras-beads/#comment-1331
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Earrings Everday Giveaway

Earring giveaway  And there are some wonderful Heart earrings to win.  7 will be lucky, maybe 1 will be me.
Winners announced on Sunday February 19th.
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Saturday, January 14, 2012

Snowflake

I received this kit in plenty of time, I allotted time to create the piece.  Then real life continued on.  I had the flu just after Christmas and humdinger of a cold on NYE.  I still have residuals (courtesy of asthma).  A nagging cough and wheeze and sinus stuff that you don't want the details of.  So on the 13th, I set down and finished the piece. The 14th, I took pictures and true to everything else that interfered in its completion, the cameras wouldn't cooperate.  My cell phone camera died, my husband's new Kodak wouldn't share and the old Kodak took four tries to get the connection to work.  /sigh.

That said - the piece is complete, I'm posting it now because Michelle doesn't mind and I'm not staying up till midnight.

It's sweet, I like it and it's going to a friend who grew up where it never snows (and I mean never) and has only seen snow occasionally in the last four years. 
Enjoy


and here's the other blogs (if I did this corretly).

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