Bead Soup Reveal

Hi there, and welcome to my corner of the Bead Soup Blog Party 3rd Reveal. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

This is my first time joining the party and I have been very excited about the 

whole process. 

I was really lucky to be paired up with talented lamp worker 

Laney of Izzy Beads.

You can see the fun selection of goodies she sent me in the pic below: 

(and keep scrolling down because there's more creations to come!)  

I have to admit that after the initial rush of 'Oh how cute' 

on opening the Bead Soup package 

I panicked! 

Each lamp work bead was a little character in its own right.

So many of them and such different colour ways. 

Just how am I going to use ALL of them  AND do justice to the 

outstanding craftsmanship and attention to detail on each and every bead. 

I was afraid, VERY afraid! 

So I sat and stared, and stared. Luckily my initial panic was without 

reason (kind of)

as ideas started to come to me. 

The first design that I had in mind was a pretty 

little Spring chicken 

necklace.

 I hand stitched a daisy chain with a peyote 

clasp in pretty spring green and fresh orange shades to 

compliment the first little Easter chick.

Here I focused on picking 

out the colours of the rooster in the necklace.

I choose the semi precious rounds because they were

the perfect colour match and reflected the little 

bobbles on his head!  

Ta Daa! 

How do you like your eggs in the morning? 

I wanted to make a necklace that resembled a

fried egg - you know when you crack it in the pan and it goes 

all wobbledy (for want of a better word!) 

I beaded a rivoli as the focal and used the egg lamp work and 

clasp that Laney sent. 

I wanted to use every single bead 

and there was one lonely egg left over. 

 It led to the making of this breakfast time 

kilt pin brooch! 

Rooster button as a focal 

on beaded napkin 

holder. 

Cheeky chicken earrings in complementary 

colours of red, orange and yellow.

The second adorable mouse bead 

this time as a book mark 

with rose quartz rounds and the 'just for you' star charm 

hanging from the end.  

For my final designs the ornate  metal hearts and tiny flowers 

struck me as very feminine and pretty 

so I teamed them with soft milky shades of palest pink

and  pastel  green. 

I beaded a around a Swarovski rivoli for the focal point and added 

an ornate dragon fly clasp which I was thrilled to take from my stash and find 

a home for at last! 

I thought it would be nice to make a matching set. 

So here we are.. 

This is my first time playing the  Bead Soup Blog Party 

and I've been enjoying embracing every facet of it: 

I've learnt a new technique (beading around a cabochon) 

Pushed my creativity by working with different beads to what I'm used to.

Hopped around all the blogs discovering all the great talent and interesting artisans. 

Spread some love with some nice comments. 

(Just 'loved' my computer playing up and not letting me 

post all the comments I wanted to... ;-0 ) 

Eagerly awaiting my purchase of some hand made beads.   

It's nice supporting self representing artists, and I have my eye

on a ahem *few* more... 

and I've made a new bloggy beady friend 

of my partner. 

All in all it's been a great experience 

and I'm already looking forward to playing again next year! 

Thanks Lori for organising this epic adventure! 

So, anyway,  thanks for wading through all that! 

Take a look at my partner Laney's blog to see what she made with  what I sent 

P.S A 'BIG THANK YOU'  to Lori Anderson 

- the lady who makes the blog hop happen! 

Oh, and If you wanted to see the frying pan necklace close up 

here it is... 

For the full list of 3rd reveal participants 

Click HERE