I Heart Macro 07082012

Bead Soup Blog Party style!

 Beautiful Jasper drop pendant

 Fun, colorful ribbon (that was very hard to photograph)

And a gorgeous crocheted fiber and wire pendant, made by the talented Lola Surwillo of Bead Lola Bead!

Today I'm joining Lori Plyler of Studio Waterstone for "I Heart Macro" slash "I Heart Close Ups: Up Close Photography for Macro Makers and the Camerologically Challenged".

Please click on the link above to view photos by other participants, or to join in the fun with your own macro photo.

 

Enjoy your week!

My Soup Ingredients Have Arrived!

My Bead Soup ingredients from Lola Surwillo of Bead Lola Bead arrived last Monday and I'm so excited to start making my soup!

 I love the ribbon that Lola used and will be incorporating it into one of my Bead Soup pieces!  This also sets the tone for the beautiful soup ingredients inside the box.

The box contains a generous portion of Bead Soup ingredients and I'll be able to make several BS pieces!  I love the colors that Lola picked!  Blues and greens and just a dash of red.  And look at the colors in the Jasper drop!

And the pièce de résistance!  Lola's beautiful fiber and wire crocheted pendant and a set of her handmade, polymer clay beads!  Lola also included some vintage seed beads that came from a 1920's era dress.  They're a gorgeous mix of greens and I would have loved to see the dress that they came from.

My yummy Bead Soup ingredients also include Swarovski crystals, Australian Jasper rounds, Turquoise rounds, Jasper drop pendant, Jade rounds, ceramic beads, gunmetal toggle, gunmetal jump rings, silver toggle and a silver jump ring.

Our reveal date is August 11th, which will be here before you know it!  Yikes!  That only leaves me 4 more weekends to work on my soup and one of those weekends I'll be out of town!  I better start pulling out my Bead Soup mixing utensils and get to work!

Enjoy your week!

My BSBP Partner

I'm very excited to be participating in Lori Anderson's 6th Bead Soup Blog Party and even more excited to be partnered with the talented Lola Surwillo of Bead Lola Bead.

Lola makes beautiful jewelry, like this romantic bracelet

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And this gorgeous necklace and earring set with crocheted wire and bead focal.

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She participates in Jeannie's Echo Creative Club and has been featured in Bead Treads Magazine.

 Visit Lola on Etsy, where you will find more of her jewelry, along with handmade polymer clay beads

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and lovely crochet scarfs 

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 My bead soup ingredients are on their way to Lola's and here's a sneak peek of what I sent.

 

Lola's soup ingredients to me are also in the mail and I'll post pictures as soon as they arrive.  We signed up for the August 11th reveal date and I'm grateful to have a little extra time to design my piece.

Enjoy your week!

I Heart Macro 07012012

I really miss working with clay

 I miss the way it feels, wet or dry 

I miss the way it smells

I miss the hand building, wheel throwing

Muddy mess of it

I miss the feel of satisfaction when the finished piece comes out of the kiln

I'm joining Lori Plyler of Studio Waterstone for "I Heart Macro" slash "I Heart Close Ups: Up Close Photography for Macro Makers and the Camerologically Challenged".

Please click on the link above to view photos by other participants, or to join in the fun with your own macro photo.

 

Enjoy your week!

Macro Monday 06252012

Snapped a quick picture of a visitor in our garden and then it fluttered off to visit else where.

I'm joining Lisa's Chaos for Macro Monday.

Enjoy your week!

I Heart Macro - 06/24/2012

Taking a few moments to get in a quick, little post for I Heart Macro. 

The above eggs are on the underside of an asparagus fern leaf, if that gives you some idea of how tiny they are.  My camera had a very hard time focusing on them and I finally decided that this was the best shot I would be able to get.

Little dove feather in one of my potted plants.

And this is one of the tiniest mushrooms (or toadstools) I have ever seen!  They have been popping up in one of my potted plants.  I see them early morning and they don't last very long.  Not sure if it's their life span, or if they are very tasty and something is eating them.

I'm joining Lori Plyler of Studio Waterstone for "I Heart Macro" slash "I Heart Close Ups: Up Close Photography for Macro Makers and the Camerologically Challenged".

Please click on the link above to view photos by other participants, or to join in the fun with your own macro photo.

 

Enjoy your week!

Regina's Writings: Hot Summers and Fish Beads and a Giveaway!

Regina of Regina's Writings is having a giveaway on her blog post Regina's Writings: Hot Summers and Fish Beads and a Giveaway!: Visit Regina's blog post to check out the beautiful necklace she made and for details on how you can win a cute brass fish bead.