Creative Jewelry

I am excited to say that I have two pieces in  Creative Jewelry. This is interweaves 10th edition and it is filled with 130 wonderful jewelry projects!

Unlock Your Dreams

can be found on page 76

this piece is created with an antique brass cabochon pin, lampwork beads from Beingbeads.etsy, lapis and antique watch fob chain.

Glory Be

you can find this piece on page 116

Etched, hand stamped copper is the background for the metal cross, along with wire wrapped hematite beads, matte Czech glass spacers, rhinestone roundels and repousee copper beads.

I am still struggling to see all the wonderful creations made for the Bead Soup Party. I say struggle because of the blogger issues I continue to have. It seems I can comment on blogs via the comment link on my email but can not comment directly on the blog without Mozilla shutting off. It is most frustrating, especially when I have written a comment only to loose it.

September

Is is September already??? Lordy, Lordy, I sure would not know it by the weather here, It's been hotter than a goats butt in a pepper patch and dryer than a bone. We have had hardly no rain in August. The pastures are drying up, the poor cattle wade into the ponds in water up to their ankles. Oh, please someone do a rain dance for us because mine is not working!

My little package from Bead Trends arrived yesterday with my September submission and the usual eye candy magazine. I feel honored to be amongst many of my talented friends. You can find my bracelet From the Earth on page 115.

I love the cube beads in this piece, the colors are made from shards of glass. These beads were a gift from my good friend Lori of Cedar Swamp Pottery. (If you ask her real nice and tell her I sent you I bet she'll make some for you.)

College boy just called and said he is coming home with company....I need to stock the pantry! I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend! Stay cool and be safe!

You make me look so good BT!!

I am so honored to be Bead Trends designer highlight this month. I was thrilled when they asked me and now I am just tickled pink to see how they showed my work. I lived for weeks camped out at the front door waiting for the UPS man to arrive with my Bead Trends package and it finally arrived this past Friday.

 

I just LOVE how this photo came out.....I was like "WOW" who made that?....

yeah...I actually forgot what the pieces looked like.

I made these pieces way back in December....a wild and crazy month for us. I just had major surgery on my leg and we went to Connecticut to spend Christmas with my husbands family. 

I remember now,  that I almost did not send this piece in.

I would love to thank the kind folks who sent me emails about the issue and to my facebook friends for their kind words.

 

Unfold Your Wings

I have a sweet little necklace in this months issue of Bead Trends. I forgot about it until  the UPS man showed up at my door with a package from Bead Trends....ooooh, how I love getting packages! You can find my piece on page 30. Those colorful beads I used are from LeAnn of SummersStudio  and you can find the cool bird connector at Micheal's Stores.

Off to the doctor tomorrow to have the sutures and staples removed from my leg, all 25 of them! It has been 28 days and its time they come out, you have no idea how many times I wanted to take my wire cutters and take them out myself.  I am getting around better but I  still have a long way to go.

Delicate Balance

My little white box arrived from Bead Trends a few weeks ago and as usual I was so excited to open it. I am always amazed at their photographs and I was anxious to see how they photographed my piece "Delicate Balance". It is a substantial piece, I guess an odd name for something not truly delicate.

Lots of chunky turquoise and some finding from AD adornments.

This is the image you find in the Sept. issue of Bead Trends

I love it! Thanks Bead Trends for making me look so good!

Step By Step Wire

I am so pleased to have two projects in the Aug/Sept issue of Step By Step Wire. First I need to give a big thanks to Cindy Wimmer for encouraging me to submit to the magazine. It has been a great learning experience and I am proud to  be amongst such talented people....especially my friend Mary Jane Dodd, her earrings in this issue are just amazing!!

  Modern pearl bracelet

 ...and a fun ten minute project

Wired Focal Pendant 

Blogging has been a wonderful experience, I never would have thought I would meet such wonderful people and learn so much. I am ever so grateful to you all! 

Bead Trends July 2010

A nice package was at my front door the other day, I was so excited to open it up and find the latest issue of Bead Trends, this marks my first publication with this magazine, I quickly searched to find a little piece of me on page 66..."Boho Chic".  There are so many wonderful wonderful ideas featured and a really great designer highlight on Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp of Skye Jewels.