Return to blogging

I have been missing in action the last week or so as I have been to see my daughter and her family in Indiana.  It was relaxing and hard to return home without them.  Have been trying to catch up reading the blogs that I follow.

Have some new beads to play with as it was my birthday this month and my friend, Evelyn, gave me three sets of beads to challenge me.  Have one set almost done.  It will actually be my March challenge piece for Operation Tackle That Bead Stash.  I hope to have it done and pictures taken by tomorrow or Wednesday.

The other two sets will have to wait until next week to be worked on.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

7000 Bracelets for Hope

Here are pictures of the bracelets that I made to be donated to the Global Genes Project (GGP) which is collecting blue jean/denim inspired bracelets for families living with rare disease.   Here is a link to their information page:  http://www.globalgenes.org/7kbracelets.php



Here are pictures of the memory wire bracelet I made.  I will be adding some gold hearts to the end loops for a bit of a dangle.



I am sending the top bracelet and keeping the smaller

one for myself (as I really made it small) although it would make a nice mother/daughter
set.  I wonder if I can do that?



Here is a list of all the people that are joining in by making bracelets.  Please visit them:

Elysian Studios  and  One Kiss Creations

  

The Studio Sublime

Crafty Hope

The Gossiping Goddess

SilverRose Designs

Firefly Visions

Pink Chapeau Vintage Jewelry

Michelle Mach

Pine Ridge Treasures

Backstory Beads

Adventures in Creativity with Lorillijean

Carefree Jewelry by Lisa

Sue Beads

MiShel Designs

Created Treasures

Taralinda Muses

My Life Under The Bus

Elizabeth Creates

SilverNikNats

Erin Siegel Jewelry

Carolyn’s Creations  (you are here)

My Life…one bead at a time

Fresh Baked Designs

Songbeads

Sunshine Bliss

Lori Anderson

Rainy Days Designs

Pat Barden Jewelry

Tell Your Girlfriends

Therese's Treasures

Windrock Studio

Bead Lola Bead

Spice Box Designs

Antiquity Travelers

Vitamin C...A Daily Dose of Creativity

Beads and Bread

Sharyl's Jewelry and Reflections

Ahtee's Blog

Thoughtful-Notions

Beads for Brains:365

Wild Sally Road

All The Pretty Things

Skye's Creative Chaos

My Addictions...Handcrafted Jewelry by Patti

Lindy's Designs

Falling Into The Sky

Star Hitched Wagon

Mama's Got to Doodle

10KDgroup

Please be sure to visit the above blogs to see other bracelets that will be donated to GGP.  Thanks for stopping by. 

Carolyn



Suburban Girl Studio seeking new design team members

Suburban Girl Studio is seeking members for their design team.  If you are interested click on this link:
new-bead-design-team-seeking-members.

Here is a picture of the beads for the first challenge.


Our first challenge will be "Bloom and Grow" (thanks Jenny) featuring the orange porcelain flower pendants pictured above.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Mardi Gras beads giveaway from Happy Mango Beads

Win the beautiful beads shown below.  Click on the link below the picture and leave a comment for a chance to win these beautiul beads from Happy Mango Beads.

win-the-mardi-gras-beads

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Skye's giveaway

Skye over at Creative Chaos is giving away a geode 

or 2 sets of earrings
both pictured here:  Skye's giveaway.  Stop by her blog and enter.  You have multiple chances to win. 

I am undecided to what I would like if I were to win.  I always like earrings but a chance to do something with a geode is tempting also.

Yesterday was bowling and I made my 400 series by 2 pins.  I was going great the first game (144), lost the momentum the second game (111), and just barely made a comeback on the third game (147).

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Valentine's Day necklace

My Beading Happily Ever After Valentine's challenge necklace is on their blog.  Here is a link:  http://beadhappilyeverafter.com/blog/  I am about half way done the page.

Really pleased with it as it is out of comfort zone. 


What do you think?   Usually I am just a stinger but the hearts have some black in them and I thought of the black chain that I had.  Made matching earring from the small red and black hearts.

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Necklace Giveaway

I have been reading this neat blog (http://jeanawells.blogspot.com/) by jewelry maker Jean A Wells.  She has kindly donated one of her necklaces to Love My Art Jewelry for a giveaway for Valentine's Day. 




Here is a link to the post:  http://lovemyartjewelry.blogspot.com/2012/02/heart-me-necklace-giveaway.html  

Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn