Miz Mowse

Thursday, January 19, 2017

H e l l o A g a i n - Time has flown by

Hello again, Time has flown by it seems.

You were probably wondering where I went and what I was doing.

Life handed me some medical issues that had to be taken care . Surgery and physical therapy have taken up a greater part of the last two years. All was successful and I am ready to pick up where I left off.

Upon returning to the worlds of art, polymer clay and jewelry making, I see many things have changed. Loads of new products and fascinating techniques to work with ! I can hardly wait to immerse myself in new projects.

So I have joined a few bead swap events, enrolled in a year long polymer clay workshop, and reading up on all the news of these medias.

Should be an interesting adventure.

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Saturday, April 27, 2013

7th Bead Soup Reveal

Remember the Bead Soup sent to me by Rose Thorn ?

Now you will get to see the creations I made by adding a few goodies from my own collection and using the beads and findings she sent.

The cat clasp was just too precious to not be front and center ! The nice sheer ribbon was sent to me as a Christmas gift From Julie Panusis. It was the perfect accent for the large beads. Here is a closer look.

There was a beautiful glass bead focal in the soup. Paired it up with a shiny silver background and it popped. The colors matched a shell bead that I had created and the union was heavenly. Also used the other clasp that was included in the soup.

I still had beads left to play with. Rose was very generous !

I paired the pretty red glass beads with a set of polymer clay beads I had recently created.

Front

Back

Matching bracelet

And since there were still beads rolling around in the tray .....

I decided to try my hand at adding beads to an applique and creating a choker . And some sassy earrings too !

Believe it or not there are still a few beads rolling around in the tray. It has been a fun month of exploring the options with this bead soup and letting my imagination run free. Thank You Rose for the wonderful bead soup !

Hope you have enjoyed these.

You can see what Rose made with my bead soup at her blog

http://swtrosethorn.blogspot.com/

I hope Rose had as much fun with the soup I sent her.

If you would like to see the other incredible designs you will find all the reveals of the

7th Bead Soup Blog Party at

http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.com/

Many thanks to Lori Anderson for hosting this wonderful event. She goes above and beyond as a host.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

5th Do Over Challenge

Jewelry by Jeannie offers a jewelry challenge every so often.

I was lucky enough to participate in the last one and really enjoyed it. Rushed to sign up for this one !

Here's how it works:

Jeannie will send you an old, tried, boring piece of her jewelry for free and you will work your magic and turn it into something beautiful and amazing. There will be a small entry fee to cover shipping and handling.

The jewelry she is sending out for this challenge are designs she made when she was new to jewelry-making and has decided not to sell. This is NOT jewelry currently listed on her website! There will be no art beads of any kind in what you receive.

Can't guarantee what you get or that you will even like it. Just have fun and keep within the spirit of what this challenge is about; DO OVER/CHALLENGE! It will not be in any fancy packaging when you receive it.

My package arrived and I dove in ! Want to take a peek ?

Strand of Lucite and wood

Set created with AB Glass chips & Glass Donuts

These are the pieces I am to do over !

I carefully took each one apart and stored the pieces on my work desk. Would take them out occasionally, waiting for them to speak to me. They were silent at first. So I went on with other projects. One of which was creating some polymer clay focal beads to fill up my supply cabinet for upcoming shows.

I just randomly start making the beads and pop them in to bake ! As I am cleaning and buffing them several jump out and ask to be included in the do over ! Then as I am digging through my stash to find little this and thats to work with an adorned shell begs to be included too ! I end up laying out and redoing bead designs into the wee hours of the next day ... well , actually, Hubby said, at 5 am , that I really needed to go to bed for a bit !

Having not worked with glass chips before I had a learning process to go through. Little devils are slippery !

I know, enough of the chit chat - show us the pretties !

First I divided the AB Glass chips up into two portions.

Using the first portion of the chips and the larger of the two

glass discs I set out to incorporate my first focal bead. I

added a few Swarovski crystals in pink and purple to pick up

the colors in the focal. Filled the strand out with clear Czech

glass beads. A few silverplated findings and this is the result.