Lori Dorrington of Lori's Glassworks! Congratulations! You are the lucky gal that is the winner of the Bead Soup Blog Party earring giveaway!
Don't forget we have shows both Saturday and Sunday! Hope to see you there!
Adventures in Glass and Jewelry Art and our CRAZY life!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Kudos for Chris
Yesterday Chris received word that his beads would be featured on the CIM (Creation Is Messy) glass website! Here are the beads he submitted:
Congrats to my very talented husband! Don't forget we will be in Exeter tomorrow (Saturday, Oct 1) at the Holiday Avenue Showcase from 10am-2pm and in Hastings at the Harvest Celebration at Prairie Loft on Sunday, October 2 from 1-6pm! Hope you can stop by! Happy Weekend!
Monster Fingers using Elphaba Glass |
Trition's Treasure Beads using Fremen glass |
Autumn Beaky Bird using Canyon de Chelly glass |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Fun with Marching Band
Mina had her first high school marching band performance last Saturday in the Melody Roundup in Hastings. She was a bundle of nerves and DESPISED her uniform. I pointed out to her that all the other kids were suffering the same fate, and hated them just as much as she does. I also pointed out that it could be worse because some uniforms involved plumes and capes and hers does not. Here are some pictures I took.
Things I didn't know about marching band:
This is the "humor the parents" shot. Gosh, she looks so grown up in her uniform! It was hard on me for a few minutes! |
This is the "I love band, but not this uniform" glower. |
This is the "if you put this picture on the web, I will NOT be happy" picture. The first in her hat. |
Only my daughter could get two left handed gloves! First thing she did when the bus arrived was find a right one! |
Everything is better with your best friend! |
- All of you hair needs to be inside your hat.
- Certain instruments wear different kinds of hats. Mina now wants to play the tuba instead of a trombone so she can wear a beret.
- When the kids are all lined up in their uniforms marching, with their hair concealed, it is very tough to find your child!
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Gone Batty and Hanging with the Zombies
I mentioned the other day that Chris has a new design "Batty Bats" and he also made a Zombie guy (which strangely looks like one of Mina's teachers!)
Zombie Guy:
Batty Bats
We would love to hear what you think of the new designs! The batty necklaces are fun, the bats hang from mono-filament line so the line disappears against your skin and makes them look like they are flying! Chris designed both the bats and the necklaces and put them together while I was working on other things.
Zombie Guy:
Batty Bats
We would love to hear what you think of the new designs! The batty necklaces are fun, the bats hang from mono-filament line so the line disappears against your skin and makes them look like they are flying! Chris designed both the bats and the necklaces and put them together while I was working on other things.
Friday, September 23, 2011
I Am Still Here
First of all Thank YOU to all who have stopped by the blog during the Bead Soup Blog Hop to check out my designs and for all who have left comments. DON'T FORGET! IF YOU LEAVE A COMMENT, YOU ARE REGISTERED FOR THE EARRING GIVEAWAY THAT IS IN THE POST. GIVEAWAY RUNS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 30TH. I will post the winner on October 1st. Here is what I have been up to this week:
Just a reminder: We will be at the Highland Park Farmers Market tomorrow (Saturday, September 24) from 8-12 and it will be our last weekend at the market. We want to thank all of our wonderful customers who shopped and visited with us at the market! You guys ROCK! Our fall/winter show season is getting under way so you can find us at these shows or contact us if you need something! We GLADLY take special orders and feel blessed that you would ask us!
Show Schedule:
- Parent/Teacher conferences: Teachers love Mina (that is GREAT), but I DON'T know for sure they were describing my child. Their description (positive, helpful, participates in class, leader), my experience at home (bursts of laughter, followed by long periods of surly, grumpy, cranky teenager). I am sure they are correct and I am WRONG (I have been informed of this many times).
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- Have spent a great deal of time beading, beading, beading, petting the cat, rubbing the cat, scratching the cat's tummy, moving the cat out of the beads, telling the cat "no, you can't go outside", moving the other cat out of the beads. Suki (always wants to go out, only allowed out with brief periods of supervision), Luna (just wants to be cute and loved, but likes lying right where you don't want her to) enjoy spending time as our studio cats, but Suki can't understand why Chris won't pay attention when he is trying to torch. She is VERY persistent!
Just a reminder: We will be at the Highland Park Farmers Market tomorrow (Saturday, September 24) from 8-12 and it will be our last weekend at the market. We want to thank all of our wonderful customers who shopped and visited with us at the market! You guys ROCK! Our fall/winter show season is getting under way so you can find us at these shows or contact us if you need something! We GLADLY take special orders and feel blessed that you would ask us!
Show Schedule:
- Exeter Avenue Holiday Bazaar, Exeter, NE Saturday, October 1 10 am-2 pm
- Harvest Celebration, Prairie Loft Center, Hastings, NE Sunday, October 2 1-6pm
- Lincoln Bead Show, Lincoln, NE, Saturday, October 15, 9 am-5 pm
- (tentative) Geneva Craft Show, Geneva, NE November 20
- Blue Hill Christmas Bazaar, Saturday, December 3 9 am-3 pm
- CPI Customer Appreciation show, Tuesday, December 13.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Bead Soup Blog Party Project Reveal Day!!!
Welcome to the Fall Edition of the Bead Soup Blog Party! A GREAT BIG THANK YOU to Lori Anderson for hosting the event and for being the brilliant woman who began the Bead Soup Party!
This is my third round of Party participation. My first was the Spring 2011 when I created this:
My partner for that round was Shea Zukowski.
For this Fall round, my partner is Valerie Norton. These are the goodies she sent me to work with!
And this is what Chris and I sent to Valerie.
Don't you just love the Beaky Bird Chris made especially for Valerie?! We can't wait to see what she makes with it! So with out further ado, here is my first piece (I created two very different designs to compliment Valerie's two very different dichroic focals).
This focal SCREAMED at me 80's Retro! So I went very FUNKY with it, using fun items to compliment the bright, beautiful colors in the dichroic glass. I visited one of my favorite Etsy shops, MyElements, and picked out some of her fun gizmos and flexible tubing to add to the piece. When I thought of funky, retro, and color-the only place I thought of was MyElements. I love her stuff! So anyway (got distracted, bead, oooh shiny!), on one side I made my own chain links using colored wire run through the hollow tubing to be able to shape it as I wanted to. On the other side I used round gunmetal chain and wire wrapped all the goodies to it. On the side with the rubber links, I took apart some of the chain links to use as jump rings for connecting the pieces of tubing. As much as I LOVE mixed metals and all the varied finishes on the chain, it can be a challenge to find the right findings to go with the finishes. Also by using the pieces of chain it tied the two sides of the necklace together without have them be identical. When I got to the finishing part, I used a mix of hand dyed silk strings and ribbon, and black satin rattail cord. I did loose braids with them so that you could see all the colors in play without the cords running around willy nilly on the ends of the necklace. I used bead cones to attach the lovely sterling silver clasp Valerie sent in my soup mix. I don't know that I am crazy about this aspect of the piece, and I may yet rip it apart and redo that issue. What do you think? I would love your input!
For the second piece, I went more Antique Autumn.
I used a bunch of the beads and the focal Valerie sent me in this piece. There were two strands of tiny Druk beads with a clear/antique bronze color that I used in my wire crocheted strands, there are freshwater pearl, Chinese and Czech crystals, mother of pearl rings, and Czech glass pressed leaves with some gorgeous metallic finishes. ***Please let me apologize for the quality of the photos above. I had to finish the pieces quickly enough to get in on the natural light before it ended for the day. At the point of the photos, the necklace was actually TAPED to my neck with a strip of blue painter's tape. Consequently, it doesn't hang as gracefully in the photos as I would have liked. I did complete the piece around 10:30 and promptly whipped up a pair of earrings for a giveaway using more of the leaves and beads and some lovely twisted copper spacers Valerie sent in my soup mix.*** In the necklace I made wired dangles for the beads using 26g Vintage Bronze colored Parawire and hand twisting each bead on the wire. When I connected the beads to the wire I used the twists like a head pin and twisted them on to attach them. I counted and there are 58 dangles on the necklace. I happened to add 29 to each side! Gosh, I am good! The crocheted ropes gave me a bit of a dilemma in how to attach them and have the piece flow together. Chris suggested I use some coordinating jump rings to connect throughout the rope, and then I wrapped the wire tails to the chain links near the back of the piece. I finished it with a floral textured antique silver toggle clasp.
Now for the Antique Autumn Earring giveaway!
If you leave me a comment on the Bead Soup Blog Party post, you will be entered to win these lovely earrings! I will put all the names through a random generator on September 30th and choose the winner. Please be sure to leave a way for me to contact you or stop back on October 1st to see who the winner is!
Please visit the other Bead Soup Partiers, there are 362 of us! Here is the list with links to all their blogs!
These are the partner pairs.
The Hostess, Lori Anderson and her partner, Manuela Wutschke
1. Aimee Wheaton and Barbara York
2. Alice Craddick and Sandra Richardson
3. Alison Sachs and Amy Severino
4. Allison Scott and Cynthia Abner
6. Amanda Davie and Patsy Evins
7. Amber Dawn and Kim Ballor
8. Ambra Gostoli and Christine Hansen
9. Amy Freeland and Christine Altmiller
10. Ana Krepel-Novak and Eleanor Snare
11. Andrea Morici and Hope Smitherman
12. Andrea Trank and Jayne Capps
13. Andrea Turini and Charlene Jacka
14. Angela May and Emanda Johnson
15. Anitra Gordy and Elizabeth Owens Dwy
16. Ann Rishell and Debbie Price
17. Ann Sherwood and Lynne Bowland
18. Anna Lear and Barbe Saint John
19. Anna Sabina and Erin Siegel
19. Nan Emmett and Erin Siegel
20. Astrid Boyce and Birgitta Lejonklou
21. B.R. Kuhlman and Deanna Chase
22. Barbara Bechtel and Bryna Lumb
23. Barbara Blaszczyk and DaviniaDesign
24. Barbara Judy and Holly Westfall
25. Barbara Lewis and Cathie Carroll
26. Barrie Edwards and Lyn Foley
27. Becky Fairclough and Jana Tarhala
28. Bella Borgouise and Gillian Lehman
29. Beth and Evie McCord and Erin Prais-Hintz
30. Beth Bricker and Heather Pyle
31. Beth Emery and Cassie Donlen
32. Bobbie Rafferty and Cindy Cima Edwards
33. Candice McGinnis and Sally Anderson
34. Carol Bradley and Cece Cormier
35. Cathy Khoury and Molly Alexander
36. Carol Tannahill and Hilary Frye
37. Carrie Tahquechi and Cris Peacock
38. Cat Pruitt and Cindy Gimbrone
39. Charlene Gary and Doris Stumpf
40. Charlotte Pevny and Kate Gardenghi
41. Cherrie Fick and Cathie Carroll
41. Claire Maunsell and Cherrie Fick
42. Cheryl Roe and Jenny Vidberg
43. Chris White and Norma Turvey
44. Christa Murphy and Kathy Alderfer
45. Christie Murrow and Dana James
46. Christina Miles and Collette Collins
47. Christine Brandel and Elizabeth Woodford
48. Christine Damm and Cynthia Deis
49. Christine Hendrickson and Debbie Goering
51. Cilla Watkins and Johanna Rhodes
52. Cindy Wimmer and Riki Schumacher
53. CJ Baushka and Cory Celaya
54. Courtney Breul and Joanna Matuszczyk
56. Cryss Thain and Serena Trent
57. Cynthia Tucker and Kitty Durmaj
58. Dana Johnson Jones and Eva Sherman
59. Davinia Algeri and Janet McDonald
60. Deci Worland and Lara Lutrick
61. Diana Ptaszynski and Kristy Abner
62. Diane Cook and Kerry Bogert
63. Diane Hawkey and Jen Judd Velasquez
64. Dorcas Midkiff and Jill Harris
65. Doris Radlicki and Heather Goldsmith
66. Dot Lewallen and Gaea Cannaday
67. Elisabeth Auld and Jennifer Justman
68. Erin Fickert-Rowland and Geanina Grigore
69. Erin Grant and Julie Jones
70. Eszter Czibulyas and Helena Fritz
71. Fiona Christie and Michelle Heim
72. Gail Zwang and Genea Crivello-Knable
73. Geneva Collins and Jana Haag
74. Gretchen Nation and Heidi Post
75. Heather DeSimone and Karin Slaton
76. Heather Marley and Terry Carter
77. Ingrid McCue and Jennifer Pride
78. Jackie Ryan and Nicole Keller
79. Janna Harttgen and Joanne Tinley
80. Jean Yates and Lori Anderson
81. Jelveh Jaferian and Jenny Davies-Reazor
82. Jenni Connolly and Jennifer Heynen
83. Jennifer Cameron and Kristi Bowman
84. Jennifer Geldard and Lisa Liddy
85. Jennifer VanBenschoten and Kim Hora
86. Jess Italia Lincoln and Lori Greenberg
87. Jill MacKay and Lori Bergmann
88. JJ Jacobs and Karen Tremblay
89. Joyce Becker and Kathy Welsh
90. Judy Glende and Karen Sinkowski
91. Judy Riley and Kelly Morgan
92. JuLee Wolfe and Julie Bean
93. Julianna Cannon and Julianna Kis
94. Julie Nordine and Lesley Watt
95. K. Hutchinson and Shea Zukowski
96. Karen Firnberg and Karyn Bonfiglio
97. Karen Williams and Kimberly Roberts
98. Karen Zanco and Polly Barker
99. Kari Carrigan and Laura Twiford
100. Karin von Hoeren and Laura Blanck
101. Kate Richbourg and Lorelei Eurto
102. Kathleen Lange Klik and Maria Clark
103. Kathy Engstrom and Keri Lee Sereika
104. Kay Thomerson and Loretta Carstensen
105. Kelley Fogle and Laurel Bielec
106. Kelly Ramstack and Sally Anderson
107. Kim Stevens and Tiffany Long
108. Kristi Harrison and Mandy Williamson
109. Kristi Kyle and Lana Kinney
110. Kristina Johansson and Sue Hodgkinson
111. Kym Hunter and Laura Sanger
112. Laura Zeiner and Susan Kennedy
113. Laurel Steven and Mary McGraw
114. Laurie Hanna and Lisa Boucher
115. Lesley Weir and Liz DeLuca
116. Linda Djokic and Tracey Weiser
117. Linda Inhelder and Pam Brisse
118. Linda Landig and Lori Dorrington
119. Linda Murphy and Lisa Hamilton
119. Line Labrecque and Marianne Baxter
120. Lisa Lodge and Monica Johnson
121. Lois Moon and Melissa Muir
122. Lola Surwillo and Therese Frank
123. Lori Bowring Michaud and Marci Brooks
124. Lupe Meter and Norma Agron
125. Maggie Towne and Marge Beebe
126. Malin de Koning and Susie Hibdon
127. Mallory Hoffman and Shirley Moore
128. Marcie Abney and Patty Miller
129. Marcy Lamberson and Melissa Clarke
130. Margot Potter and Suzann Sladcik Wilson
131. Maria Grimes and Wendy Blum
132. Maria Horvath and Melinda Orr
133. Maria Rosa Sharrow and Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp
134. Marian Hertzog and Melissa Mesara
135. Marianna Boylan and Sandi Lee James
136. Marina Dobrynina and Michaela Pabeschitz
137. Marsha Neal and Miri Agassi
138. Mary Ellen Parker and Melissa Meman
139. Mary Elliott and Tamara Soper
140. Mary McGraw and Laurel Steven
141. Melissa Pynn and Michelle Buettner
142. Michelle Hardy and Niki Meiners
143. Michelle Mach and Moira McEvoy
144. Missy Rappaport and Mags Sarri
145. Molly Alexander and Poranna
146. Mylene Hillam and Nicole Rennell
147. Nadezhda Parfyonova and Stacey Curry
148. Nan Emmett and Nancy Peterson
149. Nancy Boylan and Natalie McKenna
150. Natalie Monkivitch and Niky Sayers
151. Natasha Lutes and Pam Ferrari
152. Noemi Baena and Penny Ilagan
153. Pamela Petry and Rebecca Sirevaag
154. Pat Haight and Mary Shannon Hicks
155. Patty Gasparino and Vonna Maslanka
156. Penny Neville and Sandi Volpe
157. Pepita Bos and Wendy Chamberlain
158. Raida Disbrow and Rebecca Watkins
159. Rebecca Anderson and Sabrina Staub
160. Regina Santerre and Rose Binoya
161. Rhea Freitag and Tari Kahrs
162. Rochelle Brisson and Teri Baskett
163. Sally Russick and Tracy Bell
164. Sandra McGriff and Shay Williams
165. Sandra Wolberg and Sara Hardin
166. Sarah Elder and Salla Small
167. Saskia Kaffenberger and Sharon Gardner
168. Sharon Palac and Shannon Chomanczuk
169. Shay Stone and Suzette Bentley
170. Shiraz Biggie and Tammy Powley
171. Staci Smith and Tracy Stillman
172. Stacie Stamper and Tracy Martin
173. Stefanie Teufel and Vicky Taylor
174. Stephanie Dixon and Stephanie LaRosa
175. Stephanie Haussler and Valerie Norton
176. Suzanne Tate and Terri Wlaschin
177. Sweet Freedom Designs and Tammy Jones
178. Tania Spivey and Tari Sasser
179. Tara Plote and Terry Matuszyk
180. Terri Gauthier and Deana Hager
181. Theresa Fosdick and Tracey Nanstad
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