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ir my beads and everything else in and then in a hopefully few months when part of the garage gets converted to my bead room i get to move it all out again so on to the swap reveal first what is the bead peeps swap n hop it s an annual event we re in the 2nd year where designers sign up get a partner and then swap beads with that partner they make a piece or lots of pieces of jewelry incorporating what they were sent then do a blog post reveal where you can hop around to ooh and aah at everything this event is hosted by linda anderson of cherry on top design if you follow my blog you ll have seen my previous post about my partner bobbie rafferty who was even nice enough to send me extra seed beads since she didn t know the manufacturer number i was out of character the last few months and did not wait until the last moment to start things as soon as i unwrapped everything i was searching for ideas and inspiration which was easy to do considering how much my partner sent me here s a reminder of what i received in total i made 17 individual pieces though some belong in sets this is how it broke down 2 sets 4 bracelets 3 necklaces 3 earrings 3 rings as the number of my pieces increased so did my desire to use every type of bead that was sent to me not necessarily all of them in terms of quantity but as least use them all once this became the ultimate goal last year i had 2 partners and didn t even come close to using every type that was sent to me and it left me feeling like i hadn t done enough so did i hit my goal sadly no the hollow jade squares i just couldn t get to talk to me i thought earrings first or maybe the side of a focal on a bracelet but just couldn t make it work i also didn t use the cinnabar fish focal i m saving that for later but here s what i did make rings beads used seed beads mother of pearl beads used moonstone 15 0 ab rounds beads used ab rounds earrings beads used crystal briolettes beads used ab rounds 15 0 seed beads beads used seed beads 15 0 unakite bracelets beads used seed beads 8 0 core beads used ab rounds 15 0 beads used seed beads 15 0 beads used czech ovals wearing them all necklaces beads used ocean jasper focal 15 0 delica beads used jasper seed beads bugles 15 0 beads used seed beads long magatama sets beads used carved bone dyed carved bone clasp seed beads 15 0 8 0 core everything except the earwires was from my partner beads used jasper delica 15 0 seed beads so i definitely feel accomplished hope you enjoyed looking don t forget to visit everyone else linda anderson http fromthebeadboard blogspot com natalie davidson http www northshoredays com marcy lamberson http www studiomarcy blogspot com kathy lindemer http bay moon design blogspot com dita basu http www alankarshilpa blogspot com andrea glick http zenithjade blogspot com kristina peck http tealeavesandtinyhats blogspot com shai williams http www shaihasramblings com catherine la vite http www drygulchbeadsandjewelry blogspot com christina hickman http vintagetreasuresjewelry blogspot com gloria allen http wingsandbeads blogspot com teresa schurter http treezstreazurs com maria rosa sharrow http willowstreetshops blogspot com susan kelly http mimismilesdesigns blogspot com jenny kyrlach http anafiassa blogspot com michelle mccarthy http www fireflydesignstudio blogspot com terry jeanette carter http tappingflamingo blogspot com lee koopman http stregajewellry wordpress com laurie vyselaar https lefthandjewelry wordpress com marianne baxter http simplyseablimejewelry blogspot com divya n http www jewelsofsayuri com kelly hosford patterson http travelingsideshow blogspot com johana nunez http www artincendi com kari asbury http hippiechickjewelrydesign com blog robin reed http www willowdragon blogspot com kristina hahn eleniak http www peacockandlime wordpress com robin lynne showstack http heartsdesiresjewelryforyou blogspot com rosantia petkova http bairozan blogspot com claire fabian http saraccino blogspot de inge von roos https ingetraud wordpress com rachel mallis http mintmonarch com sam waghron http palemooncreation blogspot co uk lori schneider http beadaddicted blogspot com fay wolfenden http torchfairy blogspot com suse stelljes http pearlify blogspot de ginger bishop http www lilmummylikes blogspot com nelly may http www smellynelly blogspot com rebecca white http morganafeycreations 121hub com sheila prosterman http catswithbeads blogspot com catherine king http catherines musings blogspot com palak aka pallavi asher http kalaabhushan blogspot in krafty max http kraftymax net renetha stanziano http lamplightcrafts blogspot com becky pancake http beckypancakebeaddesigns blogspot com katy heider http onthepondcreations blogspot com deborah apodaca http deborahapodacadesigns blogspot com heather richter http desertjewelrydesigns blogspot com tami norris https tamisdesigns wordpress com brandy scozzari http bhjewelry wordpress com catherine king http catherines musings blogspot com kathleen breeding https www facebook com 99bobotw veralynne malone http veradesigns blogspot com bobbie rafferty http beadsong blogspot com lori blanchard you are here bead peeps swap n hop partner intro what i got february 27 2016 february 27 2016 3 comments so i ve been a little lax in writing my intro sometimes doing everything from my phone gets a little tedious i m hoping in the next few months to get a new laptop and change that wouldn t that be nice so for this 2nd annual swap i got paired up with an awesome artist named bobbie rafferty she s the owner and designer at beadsong jewelry here s her facebook page and her blog as i perused her blog and facebook i noticed how our style was kind of similar both of us enjoy exploring color and different techniques beadweaving bead embroidery and some metal work and both of us are mainly self taught here is some of her beautiful work i was lucky enough to chat with bobbie the night we got paired up and had a nice long chat though like it usually goes we talked little about beads and more about life in general i learned she recently moved to chicago for a job of a lifetime fundraising for the chicago symphony how cool does that sound though i m sure it s a lot of work her one thing she s never tried is the new ish neon beads evil laugh so here s what i sent her i m really happy with my selections the focal is a stone clay creation by sculpted windows all the seed beads i basically had but took a trip to my bead store to get the shaped beads and my one thing is brown so it really came as no surprise that i opened my package and found lots of brown but it s all gorgeous i ve decided to call it bronze otherwise i ll get a brain block and won t be able to think of any designs so here s what bobbie sent me she sent me 2 options for a focal and 2 clasps an awesome selection of seed beads as well as czech glass moonstone mother of pearl bugles long magatamas and 2 types of carved bone the options are almost endless duality december 17 2015 july 18 2016 2 comments i ve always felt that my journey through jewelry making has been very organic i started making jewelry when i needed quick easy and cheap christmas presents for my family about 5ish years ago little did i know the journey i d be thrust into simple stringing was my choice for that time but my mom quickly sent me a jewelry making book that included an amazing bead weaving pattern and i started out on my first bead woven piece since then i ve taken on bead weaving and wirework have made my own cabochons and am looking to make my own metal components soon just need a saw and hammer and everything but i ve found my greatest leaps and achievements have been through challenges if you make jewelry and have never participated in a challenge any challenge i urge you to do so it pushes your boundaries and makes you think of designs that you wouldn t have before which brings me to this post this challenge was issued by sarah rose who runs jewelry because you can read about her great mission here what was the challenge create a necklace that represents your personality when i first read this i was leaving one store at work to drive for another and driving is often where i come up with some great ideas so i thought really really hard about it what did i come up with so how the hell was i going to make this into a necklace i really had no clue but everyone really wanted to see it so i felt compelled to at least try so i sat down again this time at home and put a lot of thought into it what was my personality ask my cousin or my sister and they ll tell you i m crazy if you saw any of our videos from my summer vacation you ll see this ask my coworkers and they ll tell you i m kind of quiet and do what i need to do to get things done ask some of my friends and they ll say i m an animal lover or a badass biker or a great jewelry maker but who do i feel i am i m all of them so this is what i made i ll explain all the parts and pieces and why i chose them after the pics the gem in the middle is a gorgeous piece of laboradorite with a lot of hidden flash like me the shape of the stone represents both my tough side sharp edges and my flashier side hidden yet out in the open at the same time the softer side of my personality is represented by some shibori silk and a pewter angel wing everyone calls me raven a little bit of flash surprise is thrown in with the delica beads that color shift the simplicity of the design also shows me as even when i dress up it s simple very little makeup very little time spend on my hair the tougher side is shown through the leather and the dagger supposed to represent a horn the leather is a recycled upcycled leather vest because i ride motorcycles hubby just bought me a new one for our anniversary the delica here also have some flash and that was on purpose because sometimes even when being badass you want to look good i beaded my name for my leather see below notice that the shape of each side also shows these elements rounded soft pointed tough since the necklace is split down the middle i decided to do that with the clasp as well the soft side is the ring in the flashy delica the bar is 2 daggers pointy and lethal lol the tough side necklace is made up of daggers and a lampwork barrel they re wrapped with black permanately colored copper wire the wraps are very rustic and elementary a far cry from the usual neat and smooth wrap i usually go for the soft side necklace is labrodorite coins purchased from sarah herself again they have that surprise flash at unexpected moments interwoven with random seed beads you never know what you re going to get each of the elements in this necklace was chosen with great care and i believe is me very much so that duality that sometimes i can never even reconcile myself do you have that duality could you see yourself in this necklace so what does my personality look like life love beads haby hop final reveal november 24 2015 november 24 2015 6 comments well over a year ago i signed up for a blog hop with melissa trudinger called the haberdashery hop while the reveal was aug 2nd 2014 and i missed it by a long shot i felt the need to finish it what is haberdashery it s small articles used for sewing these days in stores like joann s they re called notions so what do these include why buttons of course a few years ago on a random walk through an antique store i picked up a large mason jar of buttons it moved around with me and i made a few things from them like these cute button earrings button earrings living with my cousin now so when melissa posted about hosting this hop i jumped at the idea i had been thinking of doing a zipper and button piece but it didn t really go any further then a thought in my head now i had a reason to get it out in the world my initial design started out slightly different and you can read about that here so i got out my mason jar of buttons and dumped the whole thing on the table what did i want to do what was my color scheme i don t even know how i picked orange and pink to go together but soon i had a generous pile of orange pink black and a few white buttons staring back up at me there were over 50 there of various sizes i did some research and discovered the buttons are likely bakelite and celluloid types of plastics used in the early 20th century then my bead stash came out and i picked 4 5 coordinating delica and 15 0 to go with them all i picked 4 different colors of delica frost black pink and transparent salmon as well as 6 different colors of 15 black frost orange color lined dark salmon silver and light pink i glued my buttons onto pellon and started bezeling them one of my first decisions was that no 2 bezels would be the same i had multiple buttons of the same size color so i would do them in groupings as i did the first i would count how many beads it took so that i could decide my patterns for the next button so every single button is unique i didn t get very far into the process before the reveal date was suddenly just there and i was no where close to done and because the reveal date had gone my motivation kinda went with it the buttons were always within my view but the need to get them done just wasn t there anymore i would work on them here and there when the bezeling was done then came the part i hate the most edging it s just so monotonous then in the beginning of september i tackled them again and suddenly the edging was done now came the even harder part something i ve never done before putting multiple pieces together to form a necklace and it has to hang right a friend gave me a mannequin to use and it was perfect because it was styrofoam base so i could pin into it so i pinned the buttons on to it for shaping then once again it sat there because i was terrified of putting it together i didn t know how to do this and if i did it wrong there s all that work just out the window so i started with the easy part the straps just a simple stack of buttons in a straight line i did each one individually with a very long piece of fireline then i had to start shaping the neckline again it just sat there that part was exhausting i kept putting it back on the mannequin to make sure it was sitting right then came my kick in the butt about 3 weeks ago i scheduled my very first trunk show where i d be selling my pieces and i really wanted to have this piece done so it was my motivation in the past 2 weeks is when it s really come together the assembly i ve worked on other pieces too but this was always waiting having the mannequin helped a ton and one of my smartest decisions to wait to attach the clasp which is also a button was one of the best the clasp is a cool accomplish in my mind at least i wanted the clasp to be seamless so i decided on a larger snap attached to the underside of a button but i had already bezeled all of my buttons or so i thought so i went back to my stash and found a white button that i had missed first i had to attach one...