In Honor Of The Oscars

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Hi Y'all,
Well some of you may have noticed that my blog was MIA yesterday and this morning. Well let me tell ya what happened.  I was checking in to read the blog posts just to stay ahead and I noticed that I had a new follower. Curious I clicked on the follower button and it said that I did not have any followers. Well this has happened before and all I had to do was go back out to the dashboard and click the followers button again and my followers would be there. Huh not this time my whole blog was gone and a message was there saying that I had unusual activity and my blog was spam so Google deleted it.  I did some searching and found where I could send a message to Google explaining what happened and asking them to please restore my blog.  Well I did not hear from them, but  later in the day I notice that was was getting emails with comments about the two challenges I posted yesterday. So I checked and there was my blog Yip Pee I did a happy dance and went out and finished the necklace I was working on.

I started this necklace last night after my blog went MIA to work out the stress that the missing blog caused I got up this morning and when I saw my blog was still missing I went out made some coffee and got to beading.
Here is the results of my stress buster!

This necklace is made from the pattern in the February 2012 Bead and Button magazine titled  "When It Reigns" designed by Isabella Lam.  I chose to do my version of Ms. Lam's necklace in 4mm orange Czech crystals, 3mm honey Czech crystals, and size 11 bronze seed beads.  I had a cute little Victorian Shoe button that I used for the clasp.  As I was making this I was listening to the television and hearing that the Oscars are coming on tonight and decided that this would look very nice being worn by someone on the red carpet in a formal strapless gown.

What do you think?

Here are a few other pieces I have made in the last couple of days.

I ordered some bronze components from Lesley of The Gossiping Goodess go by her blog and check out her new Etsy shop just for her components.

I ordered these cute little elephants for Pippa of Pips Jewellery she had done some in Jade green and I asked her if she could do me a pair in red and these are the results.  For those of you living in Alabama or that follow Alabama college football you will know that these are Roll Tide earrings.  I made these for my Sister her birthday is in March and she is a graduate from the University of Alabama and a huge Alabama football fan.

My Son Ryan has a girlfriend that lives in New Zealand they met through a chat room over ten years ago.  Samantha has been to the US two times now in the past year and a half and now Ryan is going to New Zealand to visit her.  This necklace is for Samantha she loves the color purple and I bought these purple died Agate beads and the black lava rock beads and made her this necklace.  I hope that she likes it.

Ryan is flying into Brisbane, AU  and Samantha will be meeting him there where they will spend about two weeks in that area and on the Gold Coast.  They will then fly over to Christ Church, NZ  where Samantha lives.  I just hope Ryan comes home, but if he don't then that gives me a real good reason to fly to the other side of the world. Right!

Happy beading Y'all,

Therese