Yes, I know this has been a long time coming, I am sure my partner Janice is wondering if I dropped off planet Earth. I am still around and still beading, but oh so little... My time has been spent with taxes, and I did get them done on time; and dealing with shortages of personnel in the work place, very tiresome and very stressful. I am pleased to announce that life is slowly getting back to normal. And then I realised that the 8th Bead Soup Party blog hop is only a week away!
Let me now introduce you to my bead soup partner
Janice. Janice hails from Canada and seems to be a wiz with Copper! Check out some very creative clasp she has formed with lamp work beads and Copper, she includes a
tutorial as well. I particularly like the one that incorporates a skull.
Janice sent me Bead Soup ingredients from bead paradise, no this is not the name of the shop, just a place where great beads come from. A copper rose made by her, just gorgeous! Some hammered copper hearts, what's not to love? and a length of copper chain.
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| The Spectacular Focal! |
An equally gorgeous brass clasp in the shape of a leaf, plenty of ornate copper spacer beads and a bunch of copper leaves, again made by Janice. She does some wonderful work with copper.
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| Lovely leaves! |
And that is not all, some great blue and green turquoise beads, including two beautifully carved pill box beads.
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| Love the colors! |
Now the pressure is not to do these great soup beads justice.
