Puget Sound Bead Festival

 Friday was a successful day of purchasing beads.  I came away happy with my purchases.  I bought lampwork beads, vintage lucite, and polymer clay beads.  I even thought about going back on Saturday or Sunday but there are a couple of more bead sales coming up, so decided against it.  Will just work with what I bought.

The welcome sign









My first purchase of the day - Lampwork beads made by Washington lampworkers





 

My next stop was at the booth right next door for some matching lampwork rondells and spacers from an Oregon lampworker



Another lampwork bead purchase - another Washington artisan

 

Polymer clay flowers









My biggest purchase of the day - vintage lucite beads from Trinkets by T - another Washington based seller



Thanks for stopping by.

Carolyn

Pretty Things giveaway

Lori Anderson of the Pretty Things blog is having a BIG giveaway.  Here is a link to her blog entry:  five-bead-and-button-bead giveaway.

She is giving away 1) a goodie bag of things that she got at the Bead 'n Button Show in June, 2) a copy of her first book, Bead Soup, 3) a copy of her eBook on blogging, 4) a "Bead Souper" tote bag in your choice of color and 5) a Bead Soup mix that she will create especially for you.  I want all of the goodies but I need to choose only one, not sure which one I will choose.

Go on over to Lori's blog and enter to win one of goodies that she is giving away.

Hope to have some goodies to show you tomorrow or Saturday of what I find at the Puget Sound Bead Festival.  If you happen to go on Friday, I am the one with the orange rolling backpack, be sure to stop me and say Hi!

Thanks for stopping by. 

Carolyn

Bead soup has arrived!!

My soup has arrived!  My beading partner is Beti Horvath of the Stringing Fool blog.  She sent me some gorgeous beads.  Here is the package as it came out of the envelope.

Beti packaged everything in small plastic bags.

A jasper donut that is bluish green, flourite beads, green aventurine chips, medium blue pearls, some brass bead caps, some brass wire swirls, and two clasps, one that Beti made and a brass hook and eye clasp.

A closer look at the donut and the pearls, I wonder if they will go together?

Or maybe the aventurine chips and the flourite rounds will go with donut?

What do you think?

Thaks, Beti, for the gorgeous beads and the challenge to make something with them.

Thanks for stopping by.  Be sure to come back for the reveal on July 28th.

Carolyn

Soup's on its way.

Managed to get my Bead Soup Blog Party partner's bead soup off to her today.  Included a focal piece and clasp for her to use along with some beads.  Hope she likes them.

Thanks for dropping by.

Carolyn

Back again

Sorry to have been gone so long.  First vacation came and then trying to catch up with my day job.  I am also a procrastinator and want to be able to include pictures in my posts.  Not happening right now.  Then my bowling trip to Reno and trying to catch up again at my day job.  The procrastinating about no pictures for my posts.  Lastly, my mom has been sick in the hospital. 

I said to heck with the pictures I need to get this blog going again. 

I managed to get signed up for Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Blog Party in the middle of all that was happening (See above).  My bead soup needs to be mailed by Monday to my partner, Stringing Fool's Beti Horvath.  Beti remarked that we seem to be like minded in what we make as we have the same blog design.

I am hoping to do better with posting.  In fact, I will have to as Beti has already mailed me my soup.

I can work on my blog from my phone and hopefully learn to add pictures.  Haven't taken too many pictures of my jewelry with my cell phone.  Will have to learn to do that.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Carolyn

Lottery for Cup of Bead Soup

Lori Anderson of Pretty Things Blog and creator of the Bead Soup Blog Hop is having a lottery for her new Cup of Bead Soup mini blog hop.  Here is a link to her blog announcement:    lottery-for-cup-of-bead-soup-with-lea 

The bead to be used is a beautiful lampwork bead made by Lea Avroch.  It is made of silver glass with murrini and has a beautiful design to it.  I already have a design in mind if I happen to be one of the chosen three beaders.

Please stop by Lori's blog to see the bead and sign up if you want to.

Carolyn

Jeannie's 3rd Do-Over Challenge

Good day to you.  Thanks for stopping by.  I am participating in the 3rd Do-Over Challenge where I was sent a piece of jewelry that was made when Jeannie first started making jewelry and no longer wants to sell. 

I was sent the following necklace made of blue topaz chips, puffed glass faceted discs and this super glass heart.

I was undecided about what to add to the heart, so I took the following pictures to try and help me out.

I hope I did justice to the original necklace.  I kept the blue topaz chips, the heart, and the original hook and eye clasp and added the blue rounds from the first picture above and the memory wire from the third picture above.

The original hook and eye clasp.

I added a memory wire circle around the heart with the blue rounds.  I also added blue round links of 3-5 beads in the necklace itself to replace the puffed disks that I took out.

Thanks for stopping by.

Here is a list of the other participants to visit.

Jeannie/Hostess http://site.jkdjewelry.com/blog 
Cilla Watkins  http://www.tellyourgirlfriends.com/
Michelle Mach http://michellemach.com/blog
Alesha Conklin http://obtainingmercy.typepad.com/
Molly Alexander http://beautifullybrokenme.blogspot.com/
Cindy Wimmer http://www.sweetbeadstudio.com/
Mary Govaars http://www.mlhjewelrydesigns.com/
Marlene Cupo http://amazingdesigns-marlene.blogspot.com/
Dagi  http://kokopellidesign.blogspot.com/
Charlene Jacka http://clay-space.com/
Julia Johnson  http://beautifullywhimsical.blogspot.com/
Carolyn Lawson  http://carolynscreationswa.blogspot.com/  you’re here
Pamela Orians http://somedaybeads.blogspot.com/
Linda Younkman http://www.lindysdesigns.blogspot.com/
Shelly Joyce http://www.aujourlejour-shelly.blogspot.com/
Judy Riggs http://www.rigglettes.blogspot.com/
Cary Scholes http://mamaneeds2create.blogspot.com/
Shaun Mullin http://bogshaun.blogspot.com/