When I saw Birgitta Lejonklou (Create With Spirit) was having a blog hop, I knew that I must participate. Thanks B! She creates the best ceramic pendants! We’ve done our own little swaps a few times, trading jewelry, beads and pendants. (One can never have too many beading buddies.) The theme is Celebrating Mother Earth. […]
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Challenge of Travel Blog Hop
Thanks to Erin Prais-Hintz for hosting this Challenge of Travel Blog Hop First off, I must admit that I wasn’t really sure where Oceania was located. But I liked the sound of it because it contained the word “ocean” in it, so I figured that I probably could not go wrong with a little arm-chair […]
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Welcome to my garden… that’s my theme for the Jewelry Designs from Nature Challenge. The generous and talented Heather Powers, aka Humblebeads had a little lottery earlier this summer and I was one of the lucky designers selected to work with one of her polymer clay pendant beads. I work at a cactus nursery, so […]
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I was lucky winner recently and my name got drawn for the Jewelry Designs from Nature Challenge sponsored and hosted by Heather Powers (a.k.a. Humblebeads, Art Bead Scene.) This here is my piece of paradise… Check back on July 17th to see what becomes of this little beauty.
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Received a few beautiful boxes of beads from my Bead Soup Blog Hop partner this round- Lori Anderson. Everything arrived spic ‘n span – bright, fresh and sparkling. A dash of this… A dash of that… Something sweet… Something salty… Something spicy… Something shining… I Love it all! Stay tuned for the finish on August […]
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Yes, chef. I’m in the kitchen again cooking up another pot of bead soup. Searching for the perfect combination of ingredients that will stretch, delight and challenge my partner. This time around, I’m paired with the hostess herself, the one responsible for masterminding this big blog party.
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At the end of May, Heather Powers put a shout out for a bead give away and a challenge to promote and celebrate the release of her book (Jewelry Design from Nature) into Hobby Lobby and Michael’s brick and mortar stores. Since I had played along when she had the nature series challenges last year, I […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Button Swap 2012
Never one to just sit idle, even when I’m really busy, I can’t not fuss with some project. The buttons for this challenge were no exception. I had to pull out the drill and add a few more holes for the earrings and then I decided to alter the large royal blue button. I […]
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