It's been quite some time (again!) since I did a blog post. I have an exciting thing to talk about, so here we go! Lori Anderson of Pretty Beads is holding a Bead Soup Blog Party and since I'm fond of bead soup (and soup in general), blogs, and parties, I thought this sounded like a delightful idea. The way this works is you sign up and send your blog info so that Lori can match you up with a partner. Once assigned, the two partners swap a collection of bead soup. Everyone creates a piece with the beads sent and on February 26th, we all blog about what we've created and travel around to all the other blogs to see what everyone has done (hence, the party). I imagine I will have a cocktail in hand; it only seems appropriate.
I was totally thrilled to be paired with Marcy Lamberson, a fantastic whimsical lampworker. We contacted each other, discussed our likes and dislikes (I not-so-subtly made the point that I was NOT a huge fan of pink), and exchanged addresses. I was so pleased to be paired with Marcy, even AFTER I re-read the part in Lori's original mail that she was pairing us as opposites.
I'm whimsical, dammit!
I briefly toyed with the idea of sending her something dark and brooding.
I was on vacation when the assignments were made, so I was down to the wire sending my beads (BIG surprise!), and I sent them without taking pictures of them. Again, SHOCK! So I'm displaying pictures of the beads she sent me.
Wow, right? I mean WOW!
What a cute starfish!
I just want to eat these as a snack!
LOVED these blue rings!
Strands and sticks too (for the record, the sticks did NOT make it into the final piece).
Fun shells
Ginger's favorite turtle toy wanted to be in a picture.
I was totally intimidated, but jumped immediately to the task of ...taking them out every few hours or so, petting them respectfully, and replacing them in their box because I was overwhelmed. It took me a while to really get started.
But now it's done and I'm totally chomping at the bit to post pictures of the finished piece and see what everybody else did.. Please drop by on Saturday to see the end results and party around!
