Yayyyy! My Bead Soup arrived in the mail. I've been checking out Bead Soup Blog Party blogs and it's funny, the predominant color for this Soup seems to be blue. Darker, winter blues. My soup I sent to Mallory was my blue ceramic feather focal with some of my blue and brown alphabet beads and some black glass beads and other natural material beads with brass findings and my brass clasp. Mallory did a great feature on me on her blog For the love of beads. Thanks Mallory. Happy beading.
Mallory sent me this gorgeous soup which was also lots of blues. Completely different beads. She sent me one of her beautiful lampwork hearts. She must have done some snooping around and found that I heart hearts!! She also sent more lovely glass accent beads and a pretty silver colored toggle and a button!! I definitely want to work that button into my design. I don't use them often but I love the unexpectedness of buttons in jewelry. 
I can't wait to get started designing my pieces. Per the Bead Soup Party rules I need to use the focal and the clasp I was sent. I can use them together or use them in separate pieces. I can use as many of the accent beads as I want and add anything from my stash to make my jewelry. You can check out more Bead Soup on Flickr. This should be fun.
Oh, my, Cindy, my package looks so empty compared to the beautiful one you sent me. I do hope you enjoy it as much as I am enjoying your package!! I'm still thinking. I hope that as soon as this lousy cold is done, I can get my piece put together.
ReplyDeleteHow cool how blues can be so different for you both! I love what you guys sent, and can't wait to see the end result!
ReplyDeleteOh no, Mallory. My beads are just bigger.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty!
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