5th Bead Soup Blog Party---The Reveal

Bead Soup From Shannon LeVart aka Miss Ficklemedia

Welcome to the 5th Bead Soup Blog Party--The Reveal-- and blog hop-- organized by our Hostess Lori Anderson  the day we have all anxiously awaited to show what we created with the Bead Soup sent to us by our Party Partner.  I am  lucky to  participate  since this time the cutoff of 200 participants out of about 400 who signed up to share beads and create and blog about  was determined by the famous Random Number Generator.  My very talented and generous blog partner is Shannon LeVart aka Miss Ficklemedia.  Some of the beads she sent me are in the photo above.  You will meet more of them as we go along. Just in case you have never met Miss Ficklemedia,  you can  visit her Etsy shop and see the rustic components she forges with her torch and hammer.  Her talent is one you will not want to miss.

I have had a great experience working with her components and I have written a Bead Soup Blog Party Diary to give you a real time experience with my creative process.  I have even included a video.  You can see all of this here on my blog.  Click the page tab above titled  Bead Soup Blog Hop Diary --The Making.  Since you have lots of artists to visit I want to keep this part of the blog for the pictures of what I made.

I made a wrist wrap bracelet with the lovely deep red Sari Silk that Shannon sent.  I embellished it with the pearls, copper beads and verigris charms from my Bead Soup.  They are attached to wire wrapped bands and loops that I attached along the bracelet.  It wraps around my wrist twice. The clasp is one of my handmade ceramic toggle clasps designed especially for fibers.

Patinaed shells and sandollars from Miss Ficklemedia surround this fiber wrist wrap bracelet

I then went on to work on components for the neccklace and earrings.  I wire wrapped the pearls and copper beads Shannon sent with the sweet ball head endpins she included in her package.

this closeup shot lets you see how cool  Miss Ficklemedia's  ball end ear wires, soldered rings and earwires are.  The turquoise beads are some of my handmade matte glazed porcelain beads.  They fit right in with the color palette.

More of the sweet components from Shannon

The necklace was my challenge and my joy.  I wanted from the get go to integrate the veridgris chain into a freeform peyote stitch necklace.  I had no idea before I began working with the beads how I would do this.  If you have ever done free form peyote you know it can be quite nervewracking if you have a deadline looming. You either come up with a  piece of jewelry that works out or you have to start all over.  No taking it apart and redoing once you have done it. 
  About the beads I used.  I only used the bright turquoise porcelain ceramic beads and the seed beads from my own stash.  The rest came from Shannon.
Starting with some closeups, here is my necklace:

Gorgeous chain wire wrapped to the toggle clasp Shannon sent. You can see the tiny seed bead loops I made to attach the chain and wire wrapped beads to the peyote stitch core.

The copper beads are stitched into the free form peyote stitch part of the necklace.  Shannon's components hang from different beaded loops in the peyote base.

Lots of  nice drape from the graceful components.  They are small and delicate and rustic all at the same time.  They helped me give the necklace a nice flow.  I could feel Shannon's presence guiding me as I worked. Thank you Shannon for all the beautiful pieces you sent me.  

Now I hope you will hop along and visit as many other beaders as possible on this list below which has live links.  Thank you Lori for making this wonderful event possible.  I have loved participating.

                                                                   Hostess, Lori Anderson

Special Book Sneak Peeks, Cindy Wimmer

1.  Adlinah Kamsir (Singapore) and Hajer Waheed (Kingdom of Bahrain)

2. Adrienn Lukacs (Hungary) and Agata Grygiel (Poland)

3.  Agi Kiss (Hungary) and Carolien Muller-Genger (the Netherlands)

4.  Agnes Asztalos (Hungary) and B.R. Kuhlman

5.  Alesha Conklin and Becki Mendivil

6.  Alice Peterson and Carol Dillman

7.  Alicia Marinache (Canada) and Dita Basu

8.  Amanda Dittloff and Brandy Thomason McNair

9.  Amanda Tibbetts and Andrea Trank

10.  Amy Freeland and Kay Mallery 

11.  Andra Weber and Christine Murrow

12.  Ann Sherwood and Diane Welte

13.  Barbara Bechtel and Kerry Bogert

14.  Barbara Lewis and Cat Pruitt

15.  Bonnie Coursolle (Canada) and Fay Wolfenden (Canada)

16.  Carmel McGinley (Australia) and Tracy Stillman (Australia)

17.  Cassie Donlen and Deryn Mentock

18.  Cathie Carroll and Janel Dudley

19.  Cece Cormier and Morwyn Mullins

20.  Charlene Jacka and Christina Hickman

21.  Cheryl Brown (Canada) and Diana Ptaszynski

22.  Christina Stofmeel (the Netherlands) and Eva Kovacs (Hungary)

23.  Christine Damm and Deb Brooks

24.  Cilla Watkins (Canada) and Elaine Robitaille (Canada)

25.  Sabrina Straub (Switzerland) and Kathy Combs

26.  Cindy Cima Edwards and Eleanor Burian-Mohr

27.  Cory Celaya and Rhea Freitieg

28.  Courtney Breul and Dana Hickey

29.  Cynthia Abner and Jennifer Boreck

30.  Cynthia Tucker and Jean Peter

31.  Debbie Goering and Heidi Post

32.  Dee Elgie (UK) and Joanne Lockwood (UK)

33.  Dian Hierschel (Germany) and Eniko Fabian (Austria)

34.  Diane Cook and Lyn Foley

35.  Donna Bohler and Lisa Lodge

36.  Donna Millard and Kiersten Giles

37.  Doris Stumpf (Germany) and Eszter Czibulyas (Hungary)

38.  Elisabeth Auld and Eva Sherman

39.  Elke Leonhardt-Rath (Germany) and Marjolein Trewavas (UK)

40.  Ema Kilroy and Laurie Keefe-Cecere

41.  Erika Nooteboom (the Netherlands) and Giorgia Rossini (Italy)

42.  Erin Grant and Jean Wells

43.  Evelyn Duberry (Canada) and Gaea Cannaday

44.  Genea Crivello-Knable and Heather Powers

45.  Ginger Bishop (military, Okinawa) and Martina Nagele (Germany)

46.  Heidi Kingman and Lori Greenberg

47.  Helen Kemp and Lisa Wangeman

48.  Helene Goldberg (Australia) and Karen Vincent

49.  Jamie Hogsett and Jeannie Dukic

50.  Jeanette Ryan and Jelveh Jaferian

51.  Jennifer Cameron and Tania Spivey

52.  Jennifer Justman and Kari Carrigan

53.  Jennifer Tough and Lorelei Eurto

54.  Joanna Matuszczyk (Poland) and Julianna Kis (Hungary)

55.  Joanne Tinley (UK) and Michaela Pabeschitz (Austria)

56.  Julie Anne Leggett and Kelley Fogle

57.  Karen Hess and Linda Landig

58.  Karyn Bonfiglio and Kathleen Lange Klik

59.  Kashmira Patel and Kat White

60.  Kat Barron Miller and Kelly Morgan

61.  Kathy Lindemer and Rose Binoya

62.  Krafty Max and Sandra Miller

63.  Kristen Latimer and Pam Ferrari

64.  Kristie Roeder and Lea Avroch

65.  Kristina Johansson (Sweden) and Penny Neville (Canada)

66.  Krisztina Erlaki-Toth (Hungary) and Nicole Keller (Germany)

67.  Lara Lutrick and Lisa Suver

68.  Laura DeMoya and Lisa Hanna

69.  Libby Leuchtman and Melanie Brooks

70.  Linda Koch and Rosemarie Cowit

71.  Lisa Chapman and Menka Gupta

 72.  Lisa Liddy and Marion Simmons

73.  Lori Anderson and Marcie Abney

74.  Lori Bowring-Michaud and Mary Govaars

75.  Lori Dorrington and Maria Rosa Sharrow

76.  Lori Finney (Canada) and Marie-Noel Voyer-Cramp (Canada)

77.  Lynn Bennett and Mandi Ainsworth

78.  Marta Kaczerowska (Poland) and Milla Starchik (Canada)

79.  Mary Harding and Shannon LeVart

80.  Mary Jane Dodd and Stacey Curry

81.  Melinda Orr and Molly Alexander

82.  Melissa Meman and Michelle Escano-Caballaro

83.  Michelle Jensen and Sandra Young (Canada)

84.  Nan Emmett and Nicole Valentine-Rimmer (Canada)

85.  Nancy Boylan and Suzette Bentley

86.  Natasha Lutes and Patti Vanderbloemen

87.  Pam Hurst and Rebekah Payne

88.  Patty Miller and Sara Rhoades

89.  Rebecca Anderson (UK) and Lori Anderson

90.  Rebecca Sirevaag and Sharon Driscoll

91.  Rochelle Brisson and Shannon Chomanczuk

92.  Rosa Maria Cuevas (Mexico) and Tejae Floyde

93.  Sabine Dittrich (Germany) and Sally Russick

94.  Sandi Volpe and Sarah/Saturday Sequins

95.  Shanti Johnson and Tracy Mok (Canada)

96.  Skylar Brez and Theresa Buchle

97.  Sonya Stille and Traci Zeller (Canada)

98.  Stefanie Teufel (Germany) and Tania Hagen (New Zealand)

99.  Stephanie LaRosa and Vonna Maslanka

100.  Terri Wlaschin and Wendy Blum