Button Swap and Happy Mother’s Day

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Today is the Button Swap Blog Hop Reveal, hosted by Cindy Wimmer of Sweet Bead Studio. Thanks for hosting Cindy, I had a lot of fun!!! Happy Mother’s Day to all  and I hope you have a fantastic day! I was partnered with Jenny Davies-Reazor, a very talented ceramic and mixed media artist,  who sent [...]

One Color Crayon Challenge…Blue

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Sally Russick of  The Studio Sublime is hosting the One Color Crayon Challenge and I decided to pick blue, it is my favorite color. I thought this would be easy and maybe I over thought the whole thing trying to stay in one color tone, I have a lot of blue beads! I started many [...]

Buttons, buttons, who has the buttons….Bead Table Wednesday

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I signed up for Cindy Wimmers, Button Swap Blog Hop, say that ten times fast!! I am paired with Jenny Davies-Reazor, who is a mixed media artist. Here is what Jenny sent me, fantastic selection and I love them all. Jenny made the earthenware and ceramic buttons and sent along some vintage buttons as well. [...]

Wrapped, Stacked and Layered Bracelet Challenge

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Today is the reveal of the Wrapped, Stacked and Layered  Bracelet Challenge, hosted by Tracy Statler of Make Bracelets. I love bracelets and wear several most days.  I have a nice collection, but I am sure after the reveal today, I will want to make more and of course I have several  that did not [...]

Bead Table Wednesday…metal smithing and torches

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When I started beading, I wanted to learn metal smithing and I have taken classes from some amazing teachers. Nick Barnes teaches at Stars Beads in Vienna, Virginia. I took my first class with Nick and still wear the bracelet I made most days. I took a second class with Nick and the bracelet and [...]

I Heart Macro…yippee

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Flowers from a ladies night out bouquet. We each brought a dozen stems of one kind of flower and went home with a gorgeous mixed bouquet.

New torch, new camera equals more time to create.

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I decided to give myself the first 3 months of the year to design and ponder the  direction with my jewelry designs and figure out what things were holding me back and what I wanted to concentrate on. I love working with metal so I decided to continue to work on my sawing, torching and [...]

BSBP winners are….and pictures with my new camera

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Thanks for all the loveley comments and all that participated. Check out my second helping of Bead Soup below. I decided to use the following as my random numbers for the mystery soup: Jamica-7 letters, this is where I was during the hop Hummingbird-11 letters, the bird and a drink we had in Jamaica and 50, [...]

Bead Soup…second helping sequins!

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I promised to challenge myself and make some pieces with the sequins that Sarah of Saturday Sequins sent me.  So here is my second helping of bead soup, bracelet earrings and necklace.   Final day to enter to win some mystery soup there will be multiple winners or the sequin set pictured, just live a [...]

I am back…make time for your girlfriends.

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I have never done a trip like this with a group of  girlfriends. My  friend Tammy and I decided that we wanted to plan a caribbean get away to celebrate our fab 50 birthdays…I turned 50 in September and Tammy will be 50 in August.  We had no idea 12 others would join us:-)  We [...]