Cloud Nine

Cloud Nine

noun

Definition:

state of great happiness

Synonyms:

bliss, blissfulness, heaven, over the moon, paradise, perfect contentment, seventh heaven, top of the world, walking on air.

This does not describe me  at the moment but I am hopeful that this will come. My day will come. Soon enough.

i scream, you scream

Melanie of Earthenwood Studio, sent some summery Ice Cream pendants and round links for this month’s Design Team Challenge. Check out Melanie’s post about how these came to fruition!
 Although the ice cream pendant is a bit bigger, I used it as a bracelet charm in this colorful frock anyway. Rubber O rings, petal dots and Plastic rings from My Elements paired perfectly with the ceramic goodies. I love how lightweight it is, so comfy to wear!

You can check out what the other Design Team members did with their beads by checking out their blogs: here’s the list!

http://gaeabeads.blogspot.com/
http://andrew-thornton.blogspot.com/
http://deniseyezbakmoore.blogspot.com/
http://treasures-found.blogspot.com/
http://erinsiegeljewelry.blogspot.com/
http://humblebeads.blogspot.com/
http://lorianderson.blogspot.com/
http://prettykittydogmoonjewelry.blogspot.com/
http://mairedodd.blogspot.com/

Weekly Bead Blogger Links

A Bead A Day

Featured Designer, Genea, creates some very happy beads and shares how she works them into gorgeous jewelry pieces!

About.com Jewelry Making

Find out how you can use your beading skills to help raise money for an Autism center.

Art Bead Scene

Art Bead Scene is having a giveaway. Come check it out!

Barbe Saint John – New Jewelry from Forgotten Artifacts

It’s jewelry “Re Do” time and a giveway of the finished piece.

Beading Arts

Cyndi has been featuring wonderful wire artists all this month…take a look at what these folks are doing!

Carmi’s Art Life/World

An acorn is the inspiration for a new thing in epoxy clay.

Cindy Gimbrone aka Lampwork Diva

It’s a Tangle Tutorial. Come make a pair of “Well-Loved” earrings!

Earthenwood Studio Chronicles

Lumber everywhere! Melanie’s wood-grain components are popping up in Beads 2011, on the Vintaj blog as the Art Bead Partner of the month, and at Art Bead Scene in a huge giveaway!

Lorelei’s Blog: Inside the Studio

Lorelei’s birthday brought big changes to her jewelry studio this week, come on over and watch her vlog.

Resin Crafts!

Resin + chocolate = great new bezels!

Snap out of it, Jean! There’s beading to be done!

Jean had a wonderful time creating a necklace set using both Artbeads and Earthenwood Studio components together, as she a blogging and design partner for each! See what she designed ! You might think the end result is as as yummy as she does !!!

The Bead Dreamer
Stick beads, gemstones and wood earring findings inspire a necklace and matching earrings – both made using the same wood findings!
The Writing and Art of Andrew Thornton
Andrew hosts one of the biggest Thursday Giveaways EVER! You could win TWELVE coin pendants from his Shop!

A few more

Ok that’s it.
This will be it for a little while.
The beads are missing me.
I re-ordered some tin, including this beauty!
I have listed the following things in Tin Snippets this morning.
Enjoy!

Tin Snippets Update

Come on over to the tin snippets shop – I updated the store with 3 sizes of various bead caps. Toodle Loo!

Tin Snippets

Couple o’ Covers

I am looking so forward to the following 2 issues from Interweave Press! Both are available in stores on June 14th. Easy Wire is available for pre-order now, but Stringing isn’t yet. I am keeping an eye on the site to see when.
I am the covergirl on Stringing, and my button/shell pendant necklace is on the cover (bottom left inset pic) on Easy Wire! Woot!

 

The Long Barrel Shape

I was attracted to this shape last night in the studio and three pieces of jewelry resulted because of it.

First, a mixed media necklace with ceramic barrel beads from Keith O’Connor. I mixed in some similarly colored lampwork glass from Ferrari Original Beads, a lampwork flower from Mermaid Glass, antiqued silver chain, and Argentium silver wire. The Pewter focal at one side is from Green Girl Studios, and the small silver wire hook clasp attaches below the pewter link. The silver charm at the right side is from Kathy Van Kleeck.

These drippy earrings have ceramic charms from Elaine Ray, and Vintaj Brass findings. The glaze on these beads has so much depth, I wanted to showcase and boosted the color in the photo a bit so you could see it better.

And this last necklace happened on accident. I have been wanting to use one of these unusual shaped pendants from Round Rabbit Extra for some time but didn’t exactly know how. I pulled it out, and found a piece of half hammered thick 14g wire on my desk.  I put the ceramic focal on the wire with a coordinating Lampwork glass bead from Loupiac, hammered the other side, and added oval shaped holes, jumprings and voila! A unique focal on brass rolo chain.

I heart Enameled Beads!

Everybody is having the BEST giveaways these days! Maybe it has something to do with the “End of the World” or maybe people are making so much stuff they just have to destash, or maybe people LOVE giving stuff away. Whatever the reason, I LOVE IT!!

Go over to Barbara Lewis’ s blog to enter a great giveaway for a set of enameled beads, in any color you like! She is promoting the Look Inside feature at Amazon.com for her new book, Painting with Fire. Finally, a sneak peek at the new book, which I am really excited to get my hands on.

She’s drawing a winner Tuesday, May 31st!

The Biggest Giveaway I have ever Seen

Where: Art Bead Scene Blog

When: Winner will be picked on May 30th

FOLLOW

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TO ENTER!