Linky Friday April 26!!!

Where did April go?

Just a quick post of my Ice Resin contribution for this oh so fun Share and Contest over at Vintiquities Workshop with Thespoena McLaughlin...

so if you love using resin like I do head on over to her blog...She is on the Ice Resin Creative team and has come up with this fun giveaway every 2nd and 4th Friday!

This pendant is actually clear except for the letters - red shirt will make the background pop red, blue shirt blue...

 Links are hand hammered and soldered together using a style learned from Diana Frey who learned it from Stephanie Lee....

Now out to the garden cause we went from 50 degree weather to 80 degrees in a couple of days - must get watering systems up and not leaking!!!

Bead Soup Blog Party #7 - The 2nd Reveal

Lori Anderson, our amazing hostess of The Bead Soup Blog Party has had a time with her demons and illness so the 2nd and 3rd Reveals were moved up a week...

AND TODAY IS THE DAY OF THE 2ND REVEAL  YAY!!!

Here is the BSBP map of world wide participants all pinned  up with 541 participants!!!

All these Creative folx from these countries:
Australia
Austria

Belgium

Canada

Finland

 France

Germany

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Kingdom of Bahrain

Luxembourg

Malaysia

Okinawa

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Scotland

Serbia

Singapore

 Slovenia

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

The Netherlands

United Kingdom

United States

JUST WAY WAY AMAZING!!!!

So now at last I can  share what evolved from this wonderful soup that my partner 

Carol Dillman sent to me...

This was a challenge as the colors are not usual for me...but once I found my way I had so much fun with these beads--Thank You Carol...Your lampwork beads are quite beautiful...

I patinated the copper beads and the clasp and here are the results.

 I had this cat in a stash from who knows when and once I got my inner witchy self on, the necklace came together so well don't you think -I will wear this every All Hallows happily and thank my partner anew each year.

Then there were the beautiful extra beads....I again patinated the silver beads, and added a few from my stash and voila! I may have to buy some new clothes to go with these...

This was my Soup that I sent to Carol, gonna hop over to see what she did with it....

Here is the link to the list Link to The Blog List of the 2nd Reveal Soupers.... 

So have a good time hopping around to all the other revelers and be sure to leave a comment!!! 

Ice Linky Friday April 12th

Join the Fun at Vintiquities Workshop with the very busy and talented Thespoena McLaughlin...

  If you love using resin like I do or just have the curiosity to take a gander, head on over to her blog...

She is on the Ice Resin Creative team and has come up with this great sharing of Ice Resin Creations every 2nd and 4th Friday of the month!

And then there is a monthly giveaway of Susan Lenart Kazmer's products!

Here is my contribution for this Friday...

Fluid Soldering, Rhinestones, Crystal, Brass Findings and a Stinking Gorgeous Rose embedded in Ice Resin with a Rhinestone twinkling at You!!!

What more could a girl want to wear?

Oh yes I glittered a bit in the Resin too couldn't help myself...

It's Linky Friday...

At Vintiquities Workshop with the dear Thespoena McLaughlin...

so if you love using resin like I do head on over to her blog...She is on the Ice Resin Creative team and has come up with this fun giveaway every 2nd and 4th Friday!

So here is my contribution...( not my best photog, but got her done)

I used the new line of bezels from the Ice Resin Crew and also tried out the Iced Enamels. The enamels can  give a very cool and aged look in a jiffy without pulling out the torch...I will be playing with these more...

I next poured some resin in and let it set up. I had some resinated papers around the work shop and cut out the newspaper disk and laid that on top. I textured and patinaed some copper washers and added them and then the button or pearl, added more resin and voila!

I think you can tell how much fun I had creating these!

Wounded In the Act and Resin Paper Triad Book

One  benefit (and heavens knows I have been searching my brain for a benefit) about me falling down our indoor stairs last Saturday and twisting my ankle is that I am blogging and finishing some projects and starting new ones. So while I ice and elevate my leg and take Ibuprofen and Arnica I blog and think...lots of time to think...like will the swelling ever go down, am I ever going to have pink feet again and not these black and blue and now yellow jobbies...

But enough about my ankle --I completed a project from a class I took at the last and final Artfest from the outrageously laugh/live out loud Susan Lenart-Kazmer. I cannot remember the title of the class but we hammered metal wire and used cold connections to make the skeleton of this book and resined papers with Ice Resin for pages in the book and then about 1 year later now it is done...maybe...

I may change the top metal filigree piece that I heat patinaed to something that I forge myself... but that may take some time so here is the piece as it is now...I used papers that I resined, H2O color papers that I sprayed with color from Ranger's Adirondack Color Washes,

  

Dylusions Sprays also from Ranger...then sprayed with Pearl Ex and water mixes made up by moi to add a bit a sparkle, decorated with Rub Ons from my age old stashes,Doodled papers with Oil Crayons ....Aged the papers with Pearl Ex and Distress Ink, set eyelets on each page at the holes to prevent tearing when opened, added the mica book covers and then the center piece and voila...

Bead Soup Blog Party# 7--The Soup Received....

Yes it has arrived and what a gorgeous Soup it is warm and yummy! 

Now I have never lamp worked beads -yes there is something I have not yet tried...and in fact I don't even know how this is accomplished and am always in awe of those who create these little masterpieces...with all the dots in the right place and swirls and whirlys to make wonder...

Carol Dillman my BSBP partner created all the glass beads and the copper clasp...what a wonderful soup...

Thank You, thank you....

Now this is the Soup that I sent to Carol...As you can see we are definitely a good challenge for each other... different styles and color choices etc...which makes this all the more fun...because it takes us out of our comfort zones, encourages us to work in tones and styles of beads perhaps not explored before by choice or chance...This is a good thing -it stimulates the brain and the heart to new depths...

So stay tuned for the next installment...Our reveal of Jewelry created with the Soups - ours is on April 6th...

And Thank You Lori for hooking me up with this partner and this challenge. 

Bead Soup # 7

Bead Soup First for me!!!

Lori Anderson created the Bead Soup Blog Party 7 years ag0, wrote a book and the rest is history. 

Sorry if I am a tease, but you cannot join this year, but if you are a beader of any type  you might want to put this on your list for next year...go to her Blogs and find out all about this amazing international trading event!!!

We don't only trade beads but our stories...

There are about 1000 folx participating in 3 reveals this year and I can only applaud Lori for all the organizational work that this must take KUDOS!!!

My partner Carol Dillman and I will be in the second reveal - I was playing it safe as a newbie...basically you create jewelry out of the Soup that is sent to you from your partner...

You may add your own beads to the soup, you can create any number of pieces with the sent Soup but you must use all the soup...Thinking of soup for dinner yet???

We don't get to reveal our soup until both soups are exchanged, So I can only tempt you with this for now...

Stay tuned as the soups are exchanged and the beads revealed and then follow along to see what we each create!

You may visit to see some of the revealed soups on Pinterest, but posting is just for Soupers!