2nd Annual Bead Hoarders Blog Hop!

Ready to go and can't wait! ....needed something new cause of the dark days that have descended upon us...the winter 'blahs' have hit me hard and this is just the ticket to help lift me up out of them! Yeah...:)
Will be looking though the ever growing (sigh) stash, to see what I can come up with...(dancing around the room, in spirit!)
Thank you, thank you Lori! ...for your willingness to host this event...if there is anything you need help with, let me know, ok?

Choosy Chicks Choose Chicklets Design Challenge Revel, August 3rd

Well, am glad that I was able to be included in the Choosy Chicks Choose Chicklets Design Challenge hosted by Jewel School Friends~, it was definitely a enjoyable one for me! Really love the beautiful colors of the beads. Want to thank Rita for allowing me to join in the challenge, as a late comer...:)
I decided to do something a little bit different, for me, so it did take some thought. I came up with the idea of putting the chicklet beads on ribbon...a medium that I don't often use and I really like the way it turned out.

Have already sold this piece, to one of my co-workers...she was thrilled to get it, she likes it very much! :)

The lovely beads I used with the ribbon

The earrings

A close up of one of the sections and the dangles to weigh down the ribbon in the back

The finished piece

Haberdashery Blog Hop Revel 8-2-14

 Had to think about this one for a while...and hunt up buttons and such and then the buzzing in the brain began!!  Took some thought, but finally came up with a couple of designs that I think turned out pretty well...:)
Enjoyed the 'stretching' of the brain, it certainly was a challenge...hope you like what I did...
Thanks to our hostess, Melissa at Haberdashery

Dainty little earrings

Used raffia paper ribbon covered wire and wire wrapped white Turquoise rondels and Pink/Gold Picasso faceted rounds with three very old buttons for my focal in this piece. Don't know what the buttons are made of for sure, but think the centers are copper (although because of their age, they don't look 'coppery'), if you look at them closely, you'll see tiny silhouettes of what appears to be a bust of Cesar (at least I like to think so!)...cool, huh? :)

A close up of the focal buttons

The finished piece

Added a magnetic clasp for easy on/off...

My quirky and fun take on working with 'notions'!

Fits comfortably on the wrist and expands to fit (most) all! :)

I used a stretchy shoelace, five lovely buttons that have silver filigree designs on them with tiny rhinestones in their centers and a scrap piece of purple tulle to finish it with...thought it turned out ok, this was definitely a challenge for me, as I've not used these types of materials much in my beading before now! When I took this one to work to show my co-workers, this was the one they liked...was amazed, as I wasn't as happy with the way this one turned out, as I was with the pink one...:)
Ev

Operation Tackle That Bead Stash Challenge 7-31-14

 After much thought I decided that I would use Fractal Art as my inspiration for my piece of jewelry.  Below is some information about what Fractal Art is, I gleaned some of this info from Wikipedia. I was first introduced to fractals in college and thought they were very cool! :) Hope you enjoy reading about it as much as I enjoyed creating with this idea in mind...:)
Fractal Art*
Fractal art is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, and media. Fractal art developed from the mid-1980s onwards. It is a genre of computer art and digital art which are part of new media art. The Julia set and Mandelbrot sets can be considered as icons of fractal art.
Fractals are any of various extremely irregular curves or shapes for which any suitably chosen part is similar in shape to a given larger or smaller part when magnified or reduced to the same size.
Many fractal images are admired because of their perceived harmony. This is typically achieved by the patterns which emerge from the balance of order and chaos. Similar qualities have been described in Chinese painting and miniature trees and rockeries.
A sample of a Fractal Art piece generated in Apoptosis (which is a computer program that is used to create pieces of art). 



And here is what I used to create my necklace and earring. I found these lovely dark Lapis blue glass pearls in several sizes and paired them with some gold plated textured leaves. I made sections of the different sizes of pearls using 20 gauge wire and joined them with jump rings and dangled the leaves from smaller jump rings in between the sections.

I was please with how it turned out...:)

2" earrings

The results! :)

What do you think?
Ev
















*Facts obtained from  Wikipedia

Michael's Blog Hop Revel 7-16

Thanks Heather (Humblebeads) & Lorelei Eurto of Lorelei's Blog for hosting this blog hop...it was certainly a 'challenge'! :)

This was a really a struggle for me, both in designing the piece I made and setting up the blog! Had no end of trouble with both...especially the computer...silly machines...but did finish both in the end. :)

I wasn't sure about the colors of the different beads, especially the 'blue' table cut beads, as I'm partially color blind and they just didn't look 'right' with all the other beads...but did incorporate them into the design...in a way that I thought was pleasing. Hope you all think so too! :) So without further ado...here is what I did...

The finished piece with what I had left over

Here is a close up of the earrings

Also having some trouble with getting the text and pictures where I want them...as you can see!!

A close up of how I used the brown flower beads as my focal

Humblebeads Blog: Michael's Beading Challenge Blog Hop

Humblebeads Blog: Michael's Beading Challenge Blog Hop

Pearls! Pearls! Pearls! Blog Hop Revel-June 29th

Hi All,
Oops!...goofed again...am going to have to start looking at the calendar BEFORE I do anything that has to do with Revels! Thought I was late getting this posted...turns out am a day early.  Sorry about that!!...have had technical difficulties with getting pictures to load...and was concentrating on getting that taken care of and NOT paying any attention to dates...etc...
But did finish two pieces using my very favorite type of beads this month, Pearls! :)
Was tickled pink to learn that a Pearl Blog Hop was being organized by Shel of MiShel Designs...thanks Shel!
Love pearls, so felt this was perfect...I used Bi-WA pearls and CZ Picasso Amethyst 3mm rounds with one necklace and Bi-WA and round pearls with CZ Picasso rounds in pink/gold in the other...
...here are a couple of pictures of the strands of pearls...sorry the pictures aren't very good, will try again in the morning to see if the light is better outside...the pictures just don't do them justice! 
 

 

 
...and here are pictures of the necklaces that I created...:)

            

...more pictures to follow...don't think I have enough in computer memory to upload my pictures anymore...it's getting slower and slower, so will have to be changing things as soon as I get a chance to as well!
     Finally figured out how to get the link onto my page...please see below...:)
Ev

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