"Teal Goddess" - A Bead Soup Cafe Challenge/Contest on Facebook!

To vote for my creation, please CLICK HERE. :)

Upper left: a close-up view of the spiral (galaxy) wrapping I did on every bead, minus the focal.
Upper right: an overall view of the necklace
Bottom left: how the necklace hangs (self-portrait, that's why the pic is crooked! LOL!).
Bottom right: the focal is by Michelle Mahre. Isn't it pretty?

I blended this necklace together using Michelle's focal, blue sky jasper and genuine turquoise. And LOTS of copper wire!!! LOL!

This is the inspiration photo. :) The "Teal Goddess". To see all the entries, go here.

And the WINNERS are ANNOUNCED! Please click here! (Psssst! I'm one of them!).

Bead Hoarder's Blog Hop- Beginnings!

So, I just signed up for another one of Lori's most excellent blog hops- this time the Bead Hoarder's Blog Hop! Since starting out in BeadSwap-USA, I've now accumulated some FANTASTIC beads, and I don't know what to do with them all! (And catching you up with BeadSwap-USA is going to be another post!).

Thanks to some swaps and destashing and Candy (my to-be mother-in-law), I've got some great beads! I've always, ALWAYS lusted after art beads, but could never really afford them... Boo-hiss on that!

Some of my swap partners in swaps, like Tiffany Smith, made me a BUNCH of AMAZING components to play with... here's a picture of some of her work:

 Tiffany MADE that cute little owl. I mean, jeez, isn't it just precious!? She also made the beads around the little owl. Can't ignore those, either! :)

I am absolutely determined to put these beads to good use!

Here's what I pulled out to play with:

By Marcia Seever... pulled from the Destash Group...

By Kelli Nelson... from the polymer clay traveling box...

 By Michelle Mahre... from a components/bead swap...

 By Valerie O'Neal... also pulled off of the Destash Group...

 By Robert Wyatt Davis... from Candy...

By Diana Fait... handmade artist component/bead swap...

Something from these is DEFINITELY going to be made. I'm just not quite sure how I'm going to put it all together! I think that's half the fun!

PS- Lori is still accepting members for the Bead Hoarder's Blog Hop! Here's the link:

http://www.prettythingsblog.com/2013/06/bead-hoarders-blog-hop-sign-ups-are-open.html