The 8th Bead Soup Blog Party Reveal--It's Time!!

I am so excited to be a participant in this bead soup party.  My partner for my first ever bead soup party is Cynthia Abner of the blog createdtreasures.blogspot.com.  A big Thank You! to Cynthia.  Be sure to check out Cynthia's blog to see the soup I sent her and the creation she made with it.  I can't wait to see!!

We communicated via Facebook and it turns out she is in the medical field just like me!  What a coinky dink.

Anyway, we sent each other our bead soups and boy did she send me a soup that I would never have picked for myself.  You see, that is part of the challenge, to send folks things that challenge them and that they wouldn't necessarily pick themselves.

We all get in a rut and kind of do the same things over and over and work with the same types of beads etc.  So this party is to get us designers out of our comfort zones and into something new and challenging.  The soup that Cynthia sent is a really pretty flower focal with coordinating beads.

The rule is that you have to use the focal and the clasp that your partner sent.  Unfortunately for me, I totally lost the clasp which was a pretty butterfly toggle clasp.  I have looked and looked for it.  My excuse is that I moved during the last months and I have lost plenty of stuff.  Don't know if it is lost or if it's in a box somewhere.  So I ask forgiveness for being so thoughtless as to lose part of my soup!!

Anyway I pondered and pondered what to design.  I finally decided the flower needed to definitely be  showcased with another finding.  I used some of the coordinating beads sent by Cynthia and some of my own beads (those that I could find anyway).  I found an old jewelry piece to attach to the focal flower and then wire-wrapped coordinating beads.

I think it turned out lovely.  My mom already has her eye on it.  She said that the flower looks like it belongs on a bush or tree it's so pretty.  So guess what she will be getting along with her other Mother's Day gifts!!

I would like to thank Lori Anderson of  prettythingsblog.com for hosting this awesome event for all of us national and international designers.  This lady by  all accounts has had some health challenges but has hung in there and hosted this party.  What a trooper!!  Thanks Lori and helpers for all of your hard work.  God bless you.


And please follow this link http://www.prettythingsblog.com/2014/05/welcome-to-8th-bead-soup-blog-party.html to enjoy the other designers bead soup designs (scroll down to find them all).  Believe me it's gonna take awhile to get through them all but I am psyched to get going and see what others have done.  Enjoy!!


Enjoy looking at the pictures of the beginning to the end of my design journey with this bead soup.  I really enjoyed it and i'm looking forward to the next one.



Pretty packaging with bead soup received:

Bead soup.  See the butterfly clasp? Can't believe I lost it!

Pictures of the finished product:

Off to see what everyone created!