More Hearts and Chain.....

Shimmermeblue was kind enough to give me this award.

“These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers. Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.”

Now I pass this award on to the following great blogs:

VoicefromJamiaca
WithHollowPrimitives
PerfectlyTwistedJewelry
ClayPerry
Kokopelli
TheWhimsicalGoblin
HeartofGoldplate & DexterBaby (She has two)
DreamsofPureLove

Thanks so much ShimmermeBlue. Not just for the award, but for your faithful blogging friendship and comments. I appreciate it more than I can say. :-)

Kokopelli, I found some more blue!

Here is another piece I finished during our snow day here in Georgia. If you've been reading you already know I am partial to blue. I find myself drawn more and more to these frosted glass pieces too.

It isn't a "classic" blue Kokopelli, but still so pretty. I love how they swirled the two shades together - giving me two blues for the price of one! :-)

Yellow Beads and Butterflies

Last weekend my youngest was with me at the bead store. He likes to dig around in the "treasure chest" boxes and find things for me. He found these yellow beads and decided I needed to make a necklace with them and with butterflies. Here you go James, I hope you approve. :-)

Key to My Heart....

I just recently started working with chain lengths. I find my head crammed full of ideas. Sunday I was on a roll and finished multiple pieces, including this one. I loved the heart pendant and was pleased with how the dangle I made for the key worked out. Frankie fell in love with it. I hope she enjoys wearing it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Hummingbirds

Here is another new piece I finished on our snow day this weekend. The pendant is a frosted glass square the depicts a hummingbird and flowers. I loved the simplicity of it.

Copper

I found some copper chain lengths this week. I was also lucky enough to find copper connectors and some beautiful glass beads with browns and coppers swirled in. I made dangles for the earrings using the connectors and some of the copper seed and bugle beads. I was really pleased with how it all came together. Some pieces take many tries and reworks before I am happy with them. This one seemed to have a mind of it's own, and in a blink it was done.