7th Bead Soup Blog Party

What a wonderful day for a party.

But......

I am no longer a wall flower at this party, girls!

I took the plunge and decided to join the

7th Bead Soup Blog Party.

Our lovely hostess, Lori Anderson,

of

Pretty Things

gets a bunch of bead loving people together

(541 this time)

to be paired up and swap bead soups.

My partner for this reveal is Lori.

Here is the soup she sent me.

I love the colors of the beads.

I knew immediately what I wanted to do with

the silver rings and clasp.

The focal is amazing.

But what to do with it???

The first thing I did was set the focal to the side, 

because quite frankly

I had absolutely no clue what to do with it.

One thing I did know was that I did not want to just use it

for a necklace.

I had these pink beads for some time now

and figured these would 

make a great necklace along with the 

rings and then use the clasp.

At each end of the pink beads I put a white seed bead and one of the spacers.

Then hooked them together with the larger rings.

Here's how it came out....

Of course I made a pair of earrings to go along with it.

Now back to the focal...

*sigh*

I wanted to try wire crocheting, 

so I took the pink and blue crystals and 

started in.

I wrapped the wire to attach it to the focal

and 

waaaala.

I made a bracelet with it.

I am still not 100 on the bracelet,

because the focal is kinda heavy for the wire size I used.

Oops!

I did not get to make anything with the 

white round rings,

but I will work on it and post at another time.

I want to thank Lori for the soup and for hosting 

this wonderful party.

Make sure to check out what everyone else made.

::Here is the link to the list of the other participants::

7th Bead Soup Blog Party List

Happy Hopping!!

Bead Soup on a Hot Day.... Maybe

What a beautiful couple of days we have had here in Fresno.

The sun is shining, the birds are singing

and soup is on.

Bead Soup that is.

You know, the kind with focals, beads and clasps

mixed with some fibers, findings

and friends.

Over 500+ friends to be exact.

with 3 reveal dates.

Mine just happened to be in the second reveal,

but I had issues that were beyond my

control and

I am not ready to reveal just yet.

But, since I just received my soup last week

let me introduce you to my partner and soup.

I was lucky enough to be paired with the amazing

Lori Anderson 

Here is the soup she sent me.

This is my first time in the hop.

I have only been making jewelry for about a year.

So I hope when it is time to show my work you will like it.

Here is the link for the 2nd reveal list of blogs.

Bead Soup Blog Hop

See you next week with my finished pieces!