My Bead Soup from Germany

Oh I have been so lazy about posting my bead soup, or maybe because it is so beautiful I just wanted to keep it to myself for a while longer.  My bead soup partner is Sabine Dittrich from Munich, Germany.  Sabine is a lamp work bead artist and she does fabulous work with glass and fire.
First let me show y'all what I sent to Sabine.

I sent Sabine a variety of gemstones, glass pearls, a focal and earring components by Marsh Neal, silver tone toggle clasp, and a bronze PMC toggle clasp by Lesley Watts, and a beaded focal inspired by Sabine Lippert's Three Crosses necklace from her Beaded Fantasies book.

Here is a close up shot of the beaded focal beaded by me.

I like this pendant so much I made one for myself in a different color.

Now for what you have been waiting to see, Sabine's beautiful lamp worked glass beads that she sent to me to create something wonderfully beautiful to wear.

Sabine made all of the beads in the photo except for the size 6 and size 3 Czech seed beads she used for spacers.  In the focal she used a technique using silver and glass the results are gorgeous.  

In the back ground of the photo you can see tapestry those are the bags Sabine sent the beads in, here is a photo of the bags.

A closer look at the beads.

Our reveal date is August 11.  I hope that you will come back then and see what we created with our bead soups.

Happy beading Y'all,

Therese