Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July

I've got the ribs bar-b-qued, the pasta salad made, peach cobbler baked, and pink lemonade made.  What is on your menu today?  Whatever it is have fun, stay cool, and have a safe holiday Y'all!!!

Therese

Sharing the Love Bead Giveaway at Spyder Jewels blog

There is a fantastic bead giveaway going on at Spyder Jewels she is generously giving away two bead mixes out of a birthday gift that she gave to herself. Unfortunately the birthday gift was from a Bead store that is closing it's doors forever.  Here is a picture of the prize.

So go on over to Spyder Jewels and follow the instructions to get entered into the drawing for this fabulous bead giveaway.

Happy beading Y'all

Therese

Foot Bling June Blog Hop

I was so excited to be a part of this blog hop that I got right to work making Foot Bling.  They are simple but pretty, so without further ado here they are.

I knew I wanted to make a barefoot sandal but I had not made one before so here is my first attempt at making a barefoot sandal.  I had this one lonely glass butterfly and these glass pink and clear beads so I put them together and the above is the result.  That is my sister's foot and her own toe ring.

This is my second barefoot sandal I made this component with Carnelian 10 mm beads and Czech 3mm gold round crystals the seed beads are sizes 8 and 11 in brown and gold colors.  My sister fell in love with this one.

I had these pastel colored freshwater pearls from 4mm to 8mm so I paired them up with some 6mm sawrovski clear ab crystals and some silver plated 4mm beads to make this pretty anklet.

This was my first time making my own chain. I strung size 8 pink and clear seed beads onto 20 gauge silver wire and wire wrapped the Lucite flowers to the ends of each link.  My sister loved this one too.

And last I made three toe rings one I did a sweet little daisy with pink size 8 seed beads and a 3mm Czech crystal in the middle and the ring is in size 8 green seed beads.  I was playing around with some silver wire and copper wire and these two are the results of my play time.

Well there you have it, I hope you enjoyed viewing these as much as I enjoyed making them.
Be sure to check out the others that joined this blog hop

The Musings of Mystic Pesto
Sue Beads
Shellie G
Patricia Lynne
Nutkitten
Renata's Arts and Crafts

Happy beading Y'all
Therese

Checking In

Hi all,
I have not posted anything lately, because I have been busy moving as you all know.  Well I am 98 percent moved out of my old house all that is left to do is clean.  Boy, I said in an other post that I was not a hoarder, well I am a pack rat, I through out so much stuff and still had tons of stuff to box up and move.  I could not bare to get rid of any of my crafting items even though some of them I have not even looked at for years.  Most of my stuff went into storage, but now I have the task of unpacking what I brought here to my Mom's.  The first thing I did was get my Son the computer geek over here to set up my computer.  I was going into DT's because I could not get on line. LOL!

So I was checking the blogs this afternoon and what do I see on Andrew Thornton's blog?  I won the Thursday Give Away.  I could not believe it, surely that was not me, so I clicked on my name and sure enough it went to my blog.  I jumped up and did a major happy dance!  As soon as I get the beads and play with them so they can tell me what they want to be, I will post a picture of what they became.

Just a reminder for those that entered The Musings of Mystic Pesto's Summer Foot challenge the posting date is the 30th.  My sister has bought three of the items I made for this challenge, she's my best customer LOL!

Happy beading Y'all
Therese

Follower giveaway at Beaducation

Beaducation is giving away a $100 gift certificate on July 1st to one of their followers and if they get 1000 followers by July 1st they will give away another $100 gift certificate to a second follower.  So if you do not already follow Beaducation click here  go on over to their blog and follow them.  They are a great blog for learning techniques.

Happy beading Y'all
Therese

Thursday Give Away at Andrew Thornton's Blog

Andrew Thornton is giving away some beautiful beads designed by Eclectica. Go on over to Andrew's blog here and check out the give away.  He has given you so many ways to get extra chances to win.
Just think of all the possibilities with these beads!


Andrew will do the drawing on Monday June 27th, so go on and get you name in the drawing.

Happy Beading Y'all
Therese

Good surprises today

Hi all,
Well I'm half way through with packing and I'm tired and so sore.  Saturday afternoon I plan to sit back down a few beers and relax knowing that it is all done but the clean up.

Now to my surprises.  I was loading my car with filled boxes getting ready to take them to my Mom's when I saw that the mail had come and I had a small package it had EBay on the address sticker.  I said to myself and my cat Taz "I did not order anything from EBay!"  I looked at the name on the package and it was my name and address, then it dawned on me "Oh yeah this is from the survey I took a few weeks ago."  The package contained some 4mm AB round glass beads, some small pink lentil beads, a few silver plated flower dangles, three 10 mm beads, and some flex wire.  I did not think to take a picture and I left the package at my Mom's.
When I got over to my Mom's and was unloading my car I notice that I had a package on the buffet.  It was what I ordered from Marcie's La Bella Joya shop.  I ordered some gemstone beads and Marcie through in a few orange size 11 seed beads and some bluish gray size 11 seed beads, thank you so very much Marcie.  I was very excited and I can not wait until I can get my corner set up so I can start creating again.

Well this afternoon when I took a break from sorting and packing I checked out what was going on with the blogs and saw that I was the winner of the ice cream cone bracelet giveaway on Denise Yezbae's blog you can visit her blog here. That was the cherry on top of my day.

Happy Beading Y'all
Therese