Showing posts with label bead soup blog party. Show all posts
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Saturday, September 17, 2011

Bead Soup !!!


Today is the day! Finally I get to reveal what I made with my beautiful bead soup from Jenni Connolly. First of all, I was so lucky to get such beautiful beads. I knew right away I wanted two things; to bring out the fuschia in the beads that Jenni made and to make a necklace that was a show stopper. Hopefully, I have done that here.


Here's what I received in the mail from Jenni. Here's my post about the day it arrived.


I went into my beading area of the studio and saw the spikey shell beads hanging on the wall. I have had these forever and I guess this is what they had been waiting for. After choosing the shells everything else just fell into place.
As for the design, I knew I wanted a multi strand necklace. I started laying out the layers on my table. I played around for----ever trying to get the right length and layers. I didn't want symectrical so it took a while for me to get the beads exactly where I wanted them.

I pictured this necklace being worn with a plain fitted dress, maybe gray, if I had my choice. You gotta wear your hair up with a necklace like this, that way the dangles in the back show.  I guess sometimes you have to buy the dress to go with the jewelry.
The Bead Soup was such a fun swap to participate in. I have never done anything like this before but definitely fun. I would most definitely do it again. 
There are a ton more participants in the blog hop. The list is below. But if you want to see my partner's creation for the hop head on over to Jenni's blog to see the Spring Sampler. It's super cute!

Have a great day !

Jennifer Jangles

The Hostess, Lori Anderson and her partner, Manuela Wutschke

19. Anna Sabina­­­­ and Erin Siegel

25. Barbara Lewis and Cathie Carroll












131. Maria Grimes and Wendy Blum


151. Natasha Lutes and Pam Ferrari



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