Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party 6 Begins

Mail from Cornwall, England arrives in Lewes, Delaware

Yesterday was the first reveal of three in Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party 6.   It also marked the day when I got a package with Queen Elizabeth's image on it was delivered to my home in Lewes, Delaware.  I knew right away that this package contained beads sent by my partner in this blog party Hannah Annear from Cornwall, England.  We are in the third reveal which will take place on August 25.  

Map of all of the  400  International Participants in Bead Soup Party 6

When I first opened my package from Hannah I found so much and such variety that I was overwhelmed.  I decided to focus on selecting the clasp and focal that I will use.  We are required to use a focal and a clasp from the mix.  Everything else is optional.

Bead Soup  Mix from which Bay Moon Design Picks Ingredients 

Clasp and Focal Bay Moon Design Will Be Using

I decided that I will select the clasp and focal that I will use.  There were several choices.  I went with a large gold clasp and a brown and black focal with hints of brown.  This will be a challenge for me.  I usually work with fairly small clasps and beads.  These are both very large.

Love these colors!

I am hoping to make some other pieces from this stash.  She sent me some pretty pink, purple, green, and lavender stripped beads that are just calling to me to use.  I know they are not going to be in the required piece.  I just can't imagine that.  The real question is if I will have time with my daughter's wedding October 6. 

Stop by my blog between now and August 25 for a chance to win some silk ribbons created by Marsha Neal Studio.  Of course these silks will be the "Down by the River" palette that I submitted for her challenge.  Anyone who comments on my blogs can earn 1 entry to a drawing for this palette of browns and greens.  Following my blog earns another entry. A third entry can be made by posting a comment with a link to a social media sight like twitter, facebook etc. in a comment on my blog.

A winner will be announced September 30. I am keeping the contest open until then to give all the bloggers who are in Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party a chance to enter when they read my blog about my beads and design.  I will be blogging on August 25 about what I created and my partner Hannah Annear will be blogging about what she designs using what I sent her.  

 

                   Enjoy seeing what the the designers in the first reveal have created!

                                         Hostess, Lori Anderson, PrettyThingsBlog.com

Alice Craddick,  Alice's Beads and Baubles

Alicia Marinache,  All The Pretty Things

Amanda Tibbetts,  Amanda Made

Amber Dawn Goldish, Inventive Soul

Annita Wilson,  AW Jewelry

Beti Horvath, Stringing Fool

Birgitta Lejonklou,  Create With Spirit   

Candida Castleberry,    Spinning Spun Sugar

Carolyn Lawson, Carolyn's Creations

Cassie Donlen, Glass Beadle

Cheri Reed,  Creative Designs by Cheri

Cheryl McCloud,  One Thing Leads to Another

Cheryl Roe, BeadRoe

Christina Hickman, Vintage Treasures Jewelry

Christine Hendrickson,  Clamworks

Cilla Watkins, Tell Your Girlfriends

Cindy Wilson, Mommy's Dream

Cindy Wimmer, Sweet Bead Studio

Cory Celaya, Art With Moxie

Cory Tompkins, Tealwater Designs

Cris Peacock, Cris' Page

Cynthia Deis, Shiny Little Things

Cynthia Machata, Antiquity Travelers

Cynthia Wainscott, Exotic Peru

Dana Hickey, Magpie Approved

Dana James, Dana's Jewelry Designs

Dana Lang, Tumblestone Handmakery

Debbie Price, Green Shoot Jewellery Designs

Denielle Hagerman, Some Beads and Other Things

Diane Valasek, Dragonfly Close

Doris Stumpf, Glaszwerg

Dyanne Everett-Cantrell, Dee-Liteful Jewelry Creations

Elaine Robitaille, Too Aquarius

Eleanor Burian-Mohr, The Charmed Life

Enikö Fabian, Perl-eni

Erin Prais-Hintz, Treasures Found

Heather Davis, Blissful Garden Beads

Heidi Post, Ex Post Facto Jewelry

Hilary Frye, FryeStyle

Ilenia Ruzza, Ilenia's Unique Beaded and Painted Jewelry

Inge von Roos, Inge's Blog

Jami Shipp, Celebrating Life

Jayne Capps, Mama's Got to Doodle

Jean A. Well, Jean A. Wells Handcrafted Artisan Jewelry

Jean Yates, Snap Out of It Jean! There's Beading to Do!

Jennifer Cameron, Glass Addictions

Jennifer Pottner, Rock Candy Beads

Jennifer VanBenschoten,  Jewelry, Art and Life

Jenny Davies-Reazor, Jenny Davies-Reazor

Jenny Vidberg, Shyme Design

Jessica Dickens, My Jewelry, My Life, Me

Jessica Klaaren, Beadful-Things by Jessica

JJ Jacobs, Coming Abstractions

Joan Williams, Lilruby Jewelry

Judith Johnston, Judith Johnston

Judy Riggs, Rigglettes

Judy Turner, Silver Rains

Julie Anne Leggett, The Peaceful Bead

K Hutchinson, Jumbled Hutch

Karen Meador, Dreamcatcher Ranch

Karyn Bonfiglio, Plus Size Bangles

Katherine Gale, Terra Beadworks
Kathleen Lange Klik, Modern Nature Studio

Katja Benevol Gabrijelcic, Slovonske Technobe

Kelli Jacobson, Creative Moon

Kelly Ramstack, Adventures with Kelly

Keri Lee Sereika, Pink Lemonade

Kim Ballor, Vitamin C... A Daily Dose of Creativity

Kim Bender-Hora, KimmyKat

Kirsi Luostarinen, Kirsi Luo Korut

Kitty Bozzini, Kitty Lampwork

Laura Demoya, The Bead Therapist

Laurie Hanna, Laurie's Jewelbox

Leah Curtis, Beady Eyed Bunny

Lesley Watt, The Gossiping Goddess

Linda Inhelder, Must-Haves Jewelry

Linda Landig, Linda's Bead Blog & Meanderings

Lisa Liddy, Metal Me This

Lori Dorrington, Lori's Adventures in Etsy Land

Lori Poppe, Adventures in Creativity with Lorillijean

Mallory Hoffman, For the Love of Beads

Marge Beebe, Rock Creek Creations

Marianna Boylan, Pretty Shiny Things

Marion Simmons, Shade Tree Studio

Marla Gibson, Spice Box Design

Marta Weaver, Marta Weaver Jewelry

Marti Conrad, Marti C's Clay Blog

Maryse Fritzsch-Thillens, GlassBeadArt, Lampwork Beads

Melanie Brooks, Earthenwood Studio

Michelle Hardy, Firefly Visions

Mikala Coates, Maybe Just Perhaps

Mowse Doyle, HoCArt

Nan Emmett, Spirit Rattles - Spirited Earth

Nancy Boylan, Snazzy Doodle Designs

Nancy Peterson, Beading From the Heart

Nicole Rennell, Nicole Rennell Designs

Niki Meiners, 365 Days of Craft

Niky Sayers, Silver Nik Nats

Norma Turvey, Moonlit Fantaseas
Paige Maxim, Paige Maxim Designs
Pamela Gangler, She Always Loved Pink

Patricia Johnson, Patricia L. Johnson Glass Art

Patti Vanderbloemen, My Addictions ... Handcrafted Jewelry by Patti

Perri Jackson, Shaktipaj Designs

Raida Disbrow, Havana Beads

Renetha Stanziano, Lamplight Crafts

Shannon Hicks, Falling Into the Sky

Shannon LeVart, Miss Fickle Media

Sharon Driscoll, Right Turn Art Werks

Shelby Foxwell, Sundown Bead Designs Rhetoric

Shelley Graham Turner, Fabric of My Life

Sherri Stokey, Knot Just Macrame

Shirley Moore, Beads and Bread

Skylar Bre'z, Brising Beads

Stacie Florer, Soul to Substance

Stacie Stamper, Park Avenue

Stacy Alderson, Iridal's Attic

Stephanie Haussler, Pixybug Designs

Stephanie Stamper, Rainy Day Designs

Sue Hamel, The Bottle Cork and Crystal

Suzette Bentley, Ellie's Bijoux

Szarka, Magpie Gemstones

Tammy Jones, Jewelry Making Daily

Tania Tebbit, Glass, Craft, & Artful Goodness

Tanty Sri Hartanti, TJewellicious by Tanti

Terry Matuszyk, Pink Chapeau

Tina Bosh, Every Good and Perfect Gift

Tracy Bell, Copper, Glass and Recycled Trash

Vonna Maslanka, Just Vonna

Sea Glass from Isla Mujeres Inspires

Sea Glass Necklace-Unique Combination of Silk Ribbon and Chain by Bay Moon Design

Coast of Isla de Mujeres, Mexico

 This is a unique necklace that combines mint and brown colored sea glass that has been wire wrapped and paired with a focal of mixed metal chains and fastened with gorgeous hand dyed silk ribbons. The necklace has 6 pieces of mint colored sea glass, 2 pieces of brown sea glass, and 2 glass beads that have swirls of the 2 colors. Each piece of sea glass is meticulously wire wrapped. The necklace is 26 inches (66 cm.) around. This is a one of a kind unique,  artisan necklace.  The necklace has taken me awhile to finally create after all I have had this sea glass since my Christmas vacation.  My family went to Isla Mujeres, Mexico for the holidays.  To get there, you take a ferry boat from Cancun to the tiny island. 

My Thoughts Exactly!

 Everyday I devoted some time to picking up the sea glass, rinsing the sand off of it and drying it for the flight home.   I have a nice little stash if it.  There was lots of sea glass right along the coast where our house was.  I suspect a lot of liquor bottles from Cancun created this sea glass.  Wire wrapping this glass brought back fond memories of this beautiful little island.  I did a lot of walking on this vacation and I ran across some unusual signs which made me smile.  This yahoo's sign was outside of a bar.


I got the idea of using some silk fairy ribbon from Marsha Neal Studio with the necklace.  I thought the silk would add a different texture to the necklace which has so many different elements in it.  Everything else in the necklace is hard and the silk adds a softness to it.  I like the way the brown ribbon brings out the brown in the sea glass and chain.

  
Who doesn't love to win things? I ordered two palettes of "Down by the River" silks--one for me and one as a giveaway.  One of the silks is the same shade of brown as the fairy ribbon used in the sea glass necklace.

Anyone who comments on my blogs can earn 1 entry to a drawing for this palette of browns and greens.  Following my blog earns another entry. A third entry can be made by posting a comment with a link to a social media sight like twitter, facebook etc. in a comment on my blog.

A winner will be announced September 30. I am keeping the contest open until then to give all the bloggers who are in Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party a chance to enter when they read my blog about my beads and design.  I will be blogging on August 25 about what I created with beads that are sent to me from the UK by my partner Hannah Annear.  Hannah will be blogging about what I sent to her in Cornwall.   I included a piece of sea glass as well as a silk ribbon in what I sent her. 

Down by the River in Sedona, Arizona

Face Necklace by Bay Moon Design

Red Rocks and Turquoise Blue Sky of Sedona

While on my recent trip to the southwest, I stopped by Sedona, Arizona, and fell in love with the stunning red sandstone rock formations, green trees and turquoise blue sky.  I also visited a number of shops there.  One of the shops, Native Hands of Sedona , had some ceramic pins created and signed by artist Miro FitzGerald.   There is a wonderful interview with her that I found on YouTube.  She shares how she finds inspiration for her paintings.

Interview with artist Miro FitzGerald

 I bought several ceramic pins of hers while there with the intention of using them in my jewelry.  One of her creations I call  " Face".   I paired the ceramic piece with two of Marsha Neal Studio silks to create a one of a kind necklace.  One of the silks is a fairy ribbon that compliments the turquoise blue in Miro Fitzgerald's ceramic piece.  The other is a 2mm silk ribbon in ivory from what I love to call "my"  "Down by the River" palette of silks.  I entered Marsha Neal's Silk Color challenge a few weeks ago and as a result Marsha sells a color palette that I was inspired to create based on my recent trip to the southwest. She sells "my" palette and other gorgeous silks in her studio's online store as well as her etsy shop.  

I love the combination of the fairy ribbon and the 2mm silk ribbon with this piece.  The ceramic has enough weight to it that the two ribbons work together well to support it.

Who doesn't love to win things? I ordered two palettes of "Down by the River" silks--one for me and one as a giveaway.  Anyone who comments on my blogs can earn 1 entry to a drawing.  Following my blog earns another entry. A third entry can be made by posting a comment with a link to a social media sight like twitter, facebook etc. in a comment on my blog.

A winner will be announced September 30. I am keeping the contest open until then to give all the blogger who are in Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party a chance to enter when they read my blog about my beads and design.  I will be blogging on August 25 about what I created with beads that are sent to me from the UK by my partner Hannah Annear.  Hannah will be blogging about what I sent to her in Cornwall. 

 I discovered that Lori Anderson of Bead Soup Blog Party Fame is hosting a giveaway. It is a five-part giveaway--which means there are five chances to win something.  I am hoping to win what she calls bits and bobs that she brought back from the Bead and Buttons Show in Milwaukee.  Some are goodies that she bought and brought back and some are cool items that were donated for giveaways.  She is also giving away her Bead Soup Book.

Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Book

All of the details are on Lori's blog which I recommend as a must follow blog.