Bead Soup Blog Party

I just wanted to let you know there will be a one week delay on my reveal for the 7th Bead Soup Blog Party. So my new reveal date will be Sat. April 13th.  Come on back and see what I made from the wonderful bead soup my partner sent me.  In the meantime go and see all the reveals in the 1st reveal.  There are over 500 artists participating in the Party.  I have visited 25 so far and I gotta tell you they are FABULOUS!  You can see all the names in my last post and just click on their site or click on the Party site to the right on my blog and you will be taken to our wonderful hostess site for the list of reveals.
Marianne

Bead Soup Reveal Soon!

Wow, I have finished my necklace, a bracelet and a pair of earrings!  I can't wait for the reveal which is coming up on April 6th.  My partner Jenny and I are in the 2nd reveal.  You might enjoy looking at all the beautiful jewelry in the first reveal which will take place on March 30th.
On a lighter note (just kidding:) I worked on pictures all day for the revamp of my entire website.  I will have all new jewelry photo's on my site and I should be finished by April 15th.  My lovely assistant (husband) has been taking pictures the last two days of over 110 new pieces!  He has also been doing all my gluing because since I broke my arm on New Year's Eve I still can't feel anything in my left hand.  So much work to have a website and I am actually thinking of a separate site.  We will see.  Anyway here are a couple of new pieces all dichroic fused glass.
What do you think?

7th Bead Soup Blog Party

I wanted to show you the wonderful bead soup my partner Jenny Kyrlach sent me.  These are colors I never work with although purple is one of my favorite colors.  I love these colors and I think they just scream spring.  Even though I broke my arm in January and had surgery I am almost finished with my necklace and am 3/4 finished with the bracelet.  Haven't started on the earrings yet but as you will see Jenny sent me tons of wonderful beads and hair sticks and jewels. I couldn't even fit them all in the picture.
Anyway I have had lots of fun working on my soup.  Look for our reveal in April.

7th Bead Soup Blog Party

Wow! Exciting news...I have my partner for the Bead Soup Blog party!  Her name is Jenny Krylach and she lives in Ohio. She makes this wonderful jewelry!  Check out her Etsy site.  http://anafiassa.etsy.com/. Can't wait to see my soup!

Holidays

Well it is the holiday season and even though I am not feeling very holiday, I wanted you to know that I am finished with all my shows for the year.  I am working on some commissions I had a month or so ago, and also making daily trips to the kiln and my studio to place loads of jewelry on my website.  I am also thinking of starting an ETSY or Artfire shop in January.  Which do you think I should go with?  So many glass artists on both sights but I think they are all different.  Anyway more on that later.  I thought I would share with you a couple of my new art pieces...Please leave me your comments.  I am really interested in what you think.  I am also starting a line of painting on glass, incorporating just a tiny bit of dichroic glass in the paint.  I have about 8 pieces almost finished but I still have to cut and grind so they are not ready for photo's yet.
Thanks for visiting.
Marianne

Kalmbach Bead Soup

We just got back from a 3 week trip visiting friends and family.  I had finished my necklace before we left but didn't get a chance to take the pictures.  Well now I have.  I absolutely LOVE this focal. The colors are marvelous and I chose to make a necklace you could use in at least 10 ways by taking apart each row of beads and repositioning the strand or drape in a different way, or just wear one strand.  This was so fun from all the anticipation in the beginning to see if I would even get one in the mail to the finished project.  I hope you enjoy!  In case you forgot this all happened from Lori Anderson of Bead Soup Blog Party fame.  She put out a book called Bead Soup: 32 Projects Show What Happens When 26 Beaders Swap Their Stash.  Lori told us all about an exciting opportunity being provided by Kalmbach Jewelry Books to sign up and maybe get some bead soup from a retail outlet.

This is the wonderful soup sent from Bunches Of Beads in Lodi, CA. 

This is my finished necklace.  Don't you just LOVE the focal!! I made this necklace with many strands that are detachable so you can wear it in about 10 different ways.  Below are just a few ways.

Here it is with just one strand.  I added the fish from my stash that I got from Antelope Beads, and a few different colored glass beads.

Here I have added 2 strands where I added to the stash some bead caps in silver and a few more colored glass beads.

These are the three strands lined up.  They are all different sizes so you can put a longer one on top and place the shortest to fit right at your neck.  I had so much fun doing this necklace.  I know I am going to LOVE wearing it!  Thanks to Kalmbach books

 Thanks so much to Lori Anderson, Kalmbach Books and Bunches of Beads for this great fun time!!