Sunday, December 4, 2011

ABS Ornament Blog Hop

Here is my ornament.  




I picked these beads up at the Milwaukee Bead & Button show.  The lovely green beads were made by Julie Miller. The ceramic connector bead is from Lisa Peters.  Use of the ribbon seemed very appropriate for an ornament.


Here are the other participants in the ABS Ornament Blog Hop:

Angela Lund-Logan  Thanks for stopping by



 

Monday, November 21, 2011

Green Madonna

I used antiqued copper and bronze colored wire as it was the color of Madonna's hair.  There were yellow accents through the piece so I added the yellow ribbon, the pendant, and the yellow rounds into the pearl strands.  Brown and Green were abundant and obvious choices.

Leaf pendant was purchased from the cutest main street store, Dream Catcher, in Galena, Illinois (www.dreamcatchergalena.com).  Added bronze colored copper wire accents to green lampwork beads.  Green disc beads have bronze wired loops at each hole connected by double jumprings. 
Three separate strings of pearls create the left side of the necklace with accent yellow rounds are added to the center string. 
The right side consists of copper chain with ribbon (yellow, green, and brown) woven through it. 

 I created two colors of earrings.  Brown:

Green:
 Inspiration for November ABS Challenge:
Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni by by Marie Spartali Stillman

Monday, October 31, 2011

Previous two blog tours

A little late on posting this but after posting the October blog tour, I decided to post the tour after my submissions each month.  For those of you who would like to see the comments on my submission for the August ABS challenge on the August ABS blog tour, you now can.  Here is the September blog tour as well.  Enjoy.

ABS October blog tour

The October blog tour is out.  Please check out the kind words about my necklace as well as all of the wonderful blogs of the other entrants.

The ABS flickr page shows all of the October entries.  I like to click on the first picture and then hit "older" to see the next submission.  So many people were inspired this month.  Looking forward to November's challenge (and announcement of the winners).

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Over the Hedge

Cabochon from Lisa Peters purchased at her booth from the Milwaukee Beads & Buttons show.  Carved rounds are 14mm antiqued jade.  Coins are 15mm grey feldspar which I thought resembled the rocks in the inspiration piece.  Put the toggle clasp together myself.  Bar is a comprised of two spacer beads, two beads, antiqued copper eyepin, and a copper coil that I wrapped in brown ribbon.
 September ABS Blog challenge inspiration is A hedgehog in a landscape by Giovanna Garzoni:

Check out this months entries to the ABS Blog challenge at www.flickr.com/groups/artbeadscene.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Ahead of the trends

On Monday I designed my pearl earrings

Just Fabulous introduced its new jewelry line designed by Kimora Lee Simmons.  These earrings are among the new line.

Saturday, October 1, 2011

Pearls Galore

On Monday I decided that I needed a bracelet and earrings to go with the Jackie O my pearl necklace.  Here they are: