Andrew Thornton's February Reader's Challenge

7,000 Bracelets Blog Hop is here


Hi Y'all,
Are you ready to view another blog hop today?  Well sure you are so let's get to it!

Andrew Thornton's February Reader's Challenge is the last one of this type of challenge that Andrew is going to host.  The colors scheme for February is pink.  I thought "Yeah pink my favorite color this should be easy!" Well  it was not so easy it took me a little while to come up with these designs.  Thank you Andrew for putting this challenge together and letting me participate.

The Kit

Simple Truths piece by Erin Prais-Hintz, Ceramic bead by Keith O'Connor, Polymer clay bead by Pam Wynn. dyed Jade, vintage plastic, pink Opal, rosewater Opal glass, fuchsia Swaroski crystals in 8, 6, and 4mm rounds and 6 mm bi-cones, vintage glass, organza ribbon, invadiated shell, Czech glass, and the 

Luxury Bead Blend'

The Mystery Component was two Enameled beads

My February Reader's Challenge Pieces

Well there you have it two necklaces and a bracelet I used all of the components from the first picture in my pieces and just a small portion of the luxury bead blend in each of the pieces.  I really like the simple truths piece, but it took me a while to figure out how to use it.  I just happened to lay it down on top of the dagger bead and the light bulb went off and I got my 6000 glue and the pendant was born.

The Other Participants 

Please go by and check out what these other wonderful beady people have created with their February Reader's Challenge Kit.

Shannon Chomanczuk

Kari Asburty

Suzette Bentley

Peg Gyldenege

                       Therese Frank (You are here)

Patti Vanderbloemen

Kari Wilson

7,000 Bracelets Blog Hop The Global Genes Project

Please play while you read my post.  Blue Jeans Blues by ZZTop.  This is my favorite ZZTop song to date.

Hi Y'all,

Well the day has arrived where I get to show y'all the bracelets I did for The Global Genes Project.
First I would like to thank Erin Fickert-Rowland and Christine Altmiller for organizing this blog hop.  I did not start blogging until after the 7,000 Bracelet Blog Hop last year.  I am so glad that I was able to learn about this wonderful hop this year.  It touched my heart so much that I could make a little token to be given to a Mother or Caregiver that is deserving of so much more for all that they do to take care of and comfort a sick child.  I just could not stop at one bracelet so I made four.  I would have made more, but I did have other challenges I needed to work on as well.
You have a lot of hopping to do so I will not bore you with a lot of jabber.  So here are the four bracelets I created to brighten the day of a well deserving Mother or Caregiver of a sick child.  The color scheme for The Global Genes Project is Denim Blue.

I made this bracelet with blue Agate gemstone beads, blue glass roundels, silver tone base metal:  wave bead spacers, wire, chain, and lobster claw clasp. 

This bracelet was made the 8 mm blue Agate and 12mm blue Botswana glass beads, silver tone base metal:  spacers, wire, chain, and lobster claw clasp.

This bracelet I stitched in a Herringbone stitch using size 8 bronze colored seed beads, 3mm denim blue Swaroski crystals, 10mm mate blue Agate beads, two 4mm bronze color Czech crystals, silver tone base metal bead caps and heart toggle clasp.  This bracelet will fit up to a 9" wrist.

And last but not least a Peyote stitched band bracelet using size 6 seed bead mix and trimmed with size 11 bronze color seed beads and a silver tone base metal slide clasp.  This bracelet will fit up to a 9" wrist. 

Here is a list of all of the participants in the 7,000 Bracelet Blog Hop:  The Global Genes Project.  Please take the time to go and visit all of their posts I'm sure you will not be disappointed.

Elysian Studios  and  One Kiss Creations

  

The Studio Sublime

Crafty Hope

The Gossiping Goddess

SilverRose Designs

Firefly Visions

Pink Chapeau Vintage Jewelry

Michelle Mach

Pine Ridge Treasures

Backstory Beads

Adventures in Creativity with Lorillijean

Carefree Jewelry by Lisa

Sue Beads

MiShel Designs

Created Treasures

Taralinda Muses

My Life Under The Bus

Elizabeth Creates

SilverNikNats

Erin Siegel Jewelry

Carolyn’s Creations

My Life…one bead at a time

Fresh Baked Designs

Songbeads

Sunshine Bliss

Lori Anderson

Rainy Days Designs

Pat Barden Jewelry

Tell Your Girlfriends

                             Therese's Treasures (you are here)  

Windrock Studio

Bead Lola Bead

Spice Box Designs

Antiquity Travelers

Vitamin C...A Daily Dose of Creativity

Beads and Bread

Sharyl's Jewelry and Reflections

Ahtee's Blog

Thoughtful-Notions

Beads for Brains:365

Wild Sally Road

All The Pretty Things

Skye's Creative Chaos

My Addictions...Handcrafted Jewelry by Patti

Lindy's Designs

Falling Into The Sky

Star Hitched Wagon

Mama's Got to Doodle

10KDgroup

I hope you enjoyed my blog post I really enjoyed creating for this project.  Come back later today to see what I have created for Andrew Thornton's February Reader's Challenge.

Happy beading Y'all,

Therese 

40 Day F.A.S.T. Challenge and Other Stuff

Erin Prais-Hintz of treasures-found.blogspot.com is hosting a 40 Days F.A.S.T challenge.  She is taking a 30 minute walk everyday For A Super Tomorrow.  I have joined in on the challenge to hopefully make it a habit to get up and move everyday and reflect on my life For A Soulful Tomorrow.  I have already went on a 30 minute walk this afternoon and man am I out of shape, but I did it.  The weather was nice 78 or 79 degrees and with a nice breeze.  The birds were singing and the children were playing  in the yards, it was a very nice walk.  Tomorrow if it is not raining I will take my camera.  Oh and if it is raining I have a gym membership that I have not used in a while but I'm still paying for.  I will dust off my membership card and do the 30 minute circuit workout.
If you are interested in joining in on the challenge click on the above link or on the 40 Day F.A.S.T. button on the right side of my blog.

Now for your viewing pleasure, here are some other things I have been working on between the challenge pieces.

I got these when Marsha Neal had her Destash sale I still have two or three I have not done anything with yet.

This lamp worked bird bead is one of Juli Cannon's of StudioJuls (I received the bird in a bead soup from Pat Haight of Wigglebut.com) and the little flower charm is fromSarah Kandell-Gritzmaker etsy shop.

Happy beading Y'all,

Therese 

What I have been up to lately

Hi Y'all,

I have not been posting very often lately.  I have been busy working on my challenges when I get home from my day job.  But you are saying "Hey you have been commenting on a lot of blog post."  Yes I have, it has been very slow at work so I have had time to read a few blogs that I follow and leave post and also I check in and read some more before I go to bed.

Some of you may remember that I posted a picture of my dog Loki one Sunday in January.  Well Loki passed away this past weekend.  He was old and he got sick and it was just to much on him.  I made his last days as comfortable as I could.  He was a great dog and I will miss him very much.

I, like a lot of you have joined many challenges that will be posting in the next few weeks so I put together some teaser pictures of what I will be showing on the reveal days.  First is Andrew Thornton's Reader's Challenge reveal date February 25th.

Andrew sent out a color pallet of different shades of pink that contained a mystery component and an art bead along with some other very pretty beads.

The second challenge is the 7,000 Bracelets for Hope Blog Hop hosted by Erin Fickert-Rowland and Christine Altmiller with the same reveal date of February 25th.  

You were to make a bracelet using a blue that represented denim for the Global Genes Project.  The bracelets are to be mailed to Children's Rare Disease Network, where they will mail them to the Mothers or Care givers of the sick child they are caring for.

I mailed my bracelets off today.  I could not just stop at one.

The third challenge for the month of February is Erin Prais-Hintz's Challenge of Music reveal date February 29th. 

 The challenge is to pick a song and make something that you feel represents the song or how the song makes you feel or you could make a piece of jewelry that you think the person performing the song may wear, the possibilities are numerous.

 Well that is it for February and in March I have the Beading Babes Project 3 reveal on March 2nd 4th and Michelle Mach's Suddenly Spring reveal on March 13th

Gifts and Giveaway winnings

A couple of months ago Debbie with All My Beads Deb's Blog sent me a gift of some of her beautiful lamp worked beads and this is what I made with a few of them.

I won these earrings in a giveaway that Leslie Todd of No Stone Unstrung had on her blog. 

Aren't they pretty!

Pam at Crazy Creative Corner had a personal challenge in January where she asked a question about what kind of jewelry would you wear and if you answered her question in a comment she would do a random drawing and make a piece to your preferences.  Well me and Deb were the only ones to respond so she made us both something and this is what she made for me.

I love gemstones!

Sharyl at Sharyl's Jewelry Gave away the piece she did for the January Art Bead Scene Monthly Challenge.

Beautiful don't you think?

Well it is way past my bed time and I am not going to want to get up at 4:30am which is in 4 hours.  So good night all.

Happy beading Y'all,

Therese

Giveaway at Boo Beads

Hi Y'all,
Just a quick post to tell y'all about a wonderful giveaway that Cat at Boo Beads is having to celebrate two of her pieces making it into the Bead Star magazine.  Go on over to her blog and read about  the pieces and find out what you need to do to get into the running for the giveaway.  Cat will be giving away two items to two lucky winners, first winner will get a copy of Bead Star magazine and the second winner will receive one of Cats etched coper pieces.  So what are you waiting for get on over there and sign up!

Happy beading Y'all,
Therese

I Heart Macro - Early Flowers

Hi y'all, well it is that time of the week again, yep, I heart macro Sunday!  So I have been noticing a lot of my Mom's flowers are blooming around her yard and you guessed it I had to take some pictures before the cold gets them tonight. It is suppose to be in the 20's with a wind chill in the teens. Alright all you Northerners quit snickering, this is Alabama and that is just too darn cold!

Forsythia (which normally blooms in late March early April)

more Forsythia 

Daffodil  (late March early April)

Hyacinth ( late March early April also)

There was a very cold wind blowing while I was out taking these shots so I apologize that they are not all that good.  I just wanted to hurry up and get back in the house where it was warm.  If you would like to see more I heart macro shots head on over to Lori's blog at Studio Waterstone.

Have a great Sunday Y'all,

Therese 

Blog Hop 7,000 Bracelets for Hope - The Global Genes Project

Come and join in on a great cause it is the Blog Hop 7,000 Bracelets for Hope. The Global Genes Project!

Two wonderful ladies are hosting this year's blog hop Christine of One Kiss Creations blog and Erin of Elysian Studios blog, please go to either one of these Ladies blogs and read about this wonderful cause and what you can do to make someone's day a little brighter.

Sign up for this blog hop is from now until February 11, so come on and join in on the fun!  You will feel complete joy about making a Mother of a sick child's day!

Happy beading Y'all

Therese