Bead Hoarders Blog Hop

If you fancy having a reason to use up those beads 

you've been clinging onto 

and making excuses not to use 

why not sign up for

 Lori Anderson's Bead Hoarders Blog Hop.

The idea is to use up beads from your own stash that 

you've been squirrelling away for whatever reason. 

I've signed up
 and am using it as an opportunity  to use up

the freebie beads I've been accumulating for some time. 

You know the little complementary bags you sometimes get 

from lovely companies to thank you for your order. 

  The pretty mini bead soup mix , as you can see, is from 

Jilly Beads as are the headpins.

(What a useful freebie!)

The rest of the bags are from Little Crafty Beaders  

as a gift when I subscribed to Bead Magazine

some time ago. 

This blog hop is just the impetus I need to 

use up some of these hoarded freebies. 

Check back on July 20th to see what I made,

and what everybody else has created with their secret hoarded 

stash!