Possible Patriots Day Red, White, and Blue blog hop

Anyone interested in participating in a blog hop for Patriots Day, September 11?  Red, White, and Blue.

I am always interested in making patriotic jewelry and thought others might be also.

We can do it either of two ways. 

Michael's is having their Bead Gallery beads on sale 50% off through 7/26 or it can be a beads of your choice. 

If we do Michael's beads, I will choose the beads.

Please leave a comment by Tuesday, July 22, so I can make an announcement on Wednesday, July 23 in the evening.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

I have my internet back

Yeah!!! I have my internet back.  I will finally be able to update my blog to show all the blog hops I have signed up for and be able to review my comments.

Thank you to everyone that has come to visit my blog.  I hope you come back over the next several days as I try to get it updated.

I will be at the Thurston County Fairgrounds this weekend for the "Homemade for the Holidays" Bazaar.  I will have a table in Benoschek Hall on one of the walls as I have electricity.  Please come by and stop and say you saw my blog.

Again, thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Pearls, Pearls, Pearls Blog Hop

Michelle Buettner put out a request for people interested in doing a blog hop of items made with pearls.I was interested and put my name in the pot.

My design is made from pearls that I purchased from Michael's Bead Gallery line of beads.  Choosing the pearls I think was the easy part.  I had a choice of two sizes and made that decision fairly quickly.

The next step was to choose the spacers.  I picked out four to start with and whittled that down and then added additional ones, finally choosing one. 

Then it was on to choose a pendant if I decided to go that route.  I had two in mind, a Tree of Life metal and shell pendant and a brown metal flower with gold jewels.

Earrings were the next step.  What color to use?  Was I going to have extra beads?

Here is what I finished with.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Carolyn

Challenge of Travel Blog Hop coming

I have decided to participate in Erin of Treasures Found's second annual Travel Challenge Blog Hop to be held on August 31, 2013.  Here is a link to her blog where she talks about the blog hop:  2nd-annual-challenge-of-travel.

2nd-annual-challenge-of-travel

This year the theme is staycation.  Please return on August 31 to here where I spent my staycation.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Alenka's blog anniversary blog hop

The day has finally come for Alenka's blog anniversary blog hop.  As I wrote in my previous post, I responded to Alenka's post for people to participate in her blog hop.  I received a blue to purple colored polymer clay bar that she made herself. 

I had thought about a bracelet with the bar as the center piece but it is a straight bar with no curve to it.  As I thought about it, I gathered together some beads that I thought would go well with it. 

Crystals shaded from blue to purple

I found some crystals that I thought followed the colors in the bar and decided to make a necklace with the bar as the centerpiece with some dangles at the bottom.

Here is a look at the entire necklace but I have close-ups of the bar and dangles.

Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to visit it the other designers in the blog hop:

Ginger Bishop           

Susan Kennedy         

Becky Pancake          

Debbie(Kepi) Rasmussen   

Evelyn Shelby 

Dini Bruinsma           

Monique Urquhart   

Jo-Ann Woolverton  

Penny May     

Carolyn Lawson       You are here

Ana Cravidao                        

Dolores Raml                        

Cynthia Machata

Your comments are always welcome.

Carolyn

Blog hop is Sunday not Saturday

I need to apologize to everyone.  I got the date of the blog hop wrong.  It is actually tomorrow, Sunday August 11.  I do hope that you will come back tomorrow and see what I made with Alenka's component.

Above is the component I had to work with.  I like what I did with it and hope you will return tomorrow to see what I did.

Here is a hint of what I did.  You have to come back tomorrow to see the entire piece.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn
 

Alenka's blog anniversay blog hop coming up soon

I have lots of blogs that I follow and back in June one of them celebrated her first blog anniversay.  Pepita Handmade asked her followers what they would prefer that she do and the results were a blog hop.  Here is a link to Alenka's announcement post: my-1st-blogoversary.

A couple of weeks later she announced that 13 (her lucky number) of us would be participating.  Alenka made the components that she sent to each one of us.  I am the happy recipent of the blue bar in the second row. 

The picture above does not do the piece I received any justice and the pictures that I took are not much better.  In fact they are much worse.

 

I am certainly going to have to take better pictures than this for reveal day.  These do not show the lovely graduated shaes from light blue through dark blue to shades of purple.

Be sure to come back again on Saturday, August 11 and see what I and other beaders have made. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Upcoming blog hop

Lisa Lodge of Pine Ridge Treasures is having a "Bead Table" blog hop.  I am one of twenty-five participants who paid a small fee to receive random stuff from Lisa's bead table. 

What's in the bead kit? Various beads and components in a variety of colors and shapes. Items that don't necessarily "match". The idea is to find a way to combine these items with "extra/orphan" beads and components from your work area into a fun design.  Here is what I received:

Lots of yellows, golds, and oranges.  I have already made one item and am working on another. 

I am going to attempt some wire wrapping so wish me luck.  Haven't done any before and hopefully this won't be too ambitious.

I hoe you will come back and join me and the other participants for the "Bead Table" blog hop on October 13.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn