Halloween is on it's way

In my house Halloween was never a big deal. I didn't even ever go trick or treating until I was well over the age limit to go. My dad is a pastor and Halloween was never celebrated in our house. I have never dressed up for Halloween until the last few years. When I took over as Merchant Association president of our town we started doing trick or treat in town again. The first year I dressed up as the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland and the kids loved it. I had the big dress and all. I had a blast and decided to make it an annual thing and see each year what I could come up with. It's hard because if you go to the store to buy a costume everything is "sexy" nurse, or "sexy" kitten, etc. When you are around kids handing out candy "sexy" doesn't quite cut it. I went to our local costume shop and found this really fun Witch hat. I purchased the hat but wasn't thrilled with any costume I could find. Thus, Pinterest took over! I logged onto Pinterest and made my costume this year from scratch. As I was putting the finishing touches on my costume tonight I couldn't help but take pride in the fact that I had tried a lot of new crafts with this new costume. You always see all this fun stuff on Pinterest and Pin it but, how often do we really do the stuff we pin. Well I used quite a few pins for Halloween. From head to toe, I'm going to be a walking billboard for Pinterest!

Town wide Trick-Or-Treat is friday and I'm going to have Sammy take pictures so I'll post the full costume then. I'm so excited to wear my outfit! I'm going to be "Blingda" the Blingy Witch! Lol!



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Shayla Daniel - Milady Pendant

3g Green Gold lined 11 Seed Beads

3g Bronze 11 Seed Beads

2g Gold 15 Seed Beads

4x14mm Autumn Colour Rivolis

44x3mm Soft Copper Glass Pearls

32x3mm Bronze Crystal Bicones

8x8mm Soft Copper Glass Pearls

 

 

Bead Along Catch Up's

Karin Vervoort - Double Star Earrings

3mm gun metal colour bugle beads

11/0 galvanized silver seed beads

15/0 silver lined seed beads

4 Caribbean Opal Blue Chatons, 8mm

Caribbean Opal Blue 4mm Bicones

Caribbean Opal Blue 3mm Bicones

Silver plated hooks

6lb fireline

 

Karin Vervoort - Milady Pendant



11/0 galvanised silver seed beads

11/0 delica DB151-TB

15/0 toho seed beads silver lined light sapphire

4 chinese rivolis sapphire blue 14mm

3mm light sapphire blue ab coated bicones

3mm powder blue glass pearls

8mm baby blue glass pearls

6lb fireline

 

Jayne Wilks - Sheherazade Pendant



6mm Glass Pearls – Light Amethyst

3mm Fire polished rounds – Opaque Lilac

4mm fire polished rounds – Purple

Size 11 seed beads – Silver lined purple

Size 15 seed beads – Metallic silver

Size 8 seed beads – Black

 

Louise Parkinson - La Fleur Bracelet



- Chatons, Rose Water Opal

- 3mm bicones, Rose Water Opal

- 11 seeds, transparent pale pink AB

- 15 seeds, 158 transparent olive

 

Louise Parkinson - Queenie Bracelet



- Rivolis, Crystal Green Sphinx

- Bicones, Dark Indigo

- Cylinders, Miyuki Transparent Rainbow Silver Grey

- 6 seeds, Toho gunmetal

- 15 seeds, 143 Transparent Chartreuse

- 11 seeds, 452 Metallic Dark Blue Iris

 

Louise Parkinson - Double Star Earrings



- Chatons, Crystal AB

- Bugles, Silver Lined Crystal

- 11 seeds, 1051 Dyed Galvanised Silver

- 15 Seeds, 250 Crystal AB

- 4mm Bicones, Silver Shade

- 3mm Bicones, Crystal AB

 

Louise Parkinson - Sheherazade Pendant



- 3 & 4mm Firepolish, Light Sapphire AB

- 6mm Rounds, Crystal Powder Almond Pearls

- 8 seeds, White Ceylon

- 11 seeds, Brown Iris

- 15 seeds, Crystal AB

 

Yvette Carter - Sheherazade Pendant

Yvette was very clever and made her pendant double sided. Below are pictures of both sides.



3 mm fire polish-Peach

4mm fire polish- Green Picasso

6mm satin rounds- Copper

8/o-Topaz Gold

11/o- Dark Peach lined Crystal AB

15/o- Topaz Gold (side 2) and transparent olivine green(side 1)

 

 

Bead Along Almost Done!

Shayla Daniel - Double Star Earrings

8mm Chatons in Bermuda Blue

4mm Swarovski Bicones Ocean Blue

3mm Swarovski Bicones Ocean Blue AB

Size 15 seed beads silver lined

Size 11 seed beads silver

3mm Bugle beads Blue Gray AB

Tressa Williams - Double Star

Fuscia 3mm & 4mm Bicones

Pink Opal Chatons

Cinnamon Gold Luster Bugles

Duracoat Seeds



Yvette Carter - XXOXX Bracelet

4mm Fire Polish- Dark Brown

6mm Glass Pearls-Gold
11/o and 15/o seed beads- Topaz Gold
8/o seed beads- Ceylon Peach
3.4mm drops- Dark Topaz matte transparent
4mm bicone crystals- Red Topaz (looks orange)

 

Two more bead along pics

Here are two pictures that I received this week for the bead along. This past Sunday was the turn in date for the Double Star Earrings. I was really surprised that I have only had 4 people do this project. To me this was the simpliest project in the whole book. Guess it's just a busy time of year for people.

I love this bead along because I like how everyone uses such cool and different colors. It always fun to see what others put together because normally its beads or colors that, alone, we would have never thought about.  This bead along has been a fun way to learn. Only a few more projects and then we're done!

Cheryl - XXOXX Bracelet
Cheryl used a lot of materials that she already had on hand and was not sure of the exact colors used

 

Jayne Wilks - Double Star Earrings



8mm Chatons – Pacific Opal

4mm Glass Bicones – Aquamarine

3mm Bicones – Crystal AB

Size 15 Seed Beads – Silver Lined Aqua

Size 15 Seed Beads – Metallic Silver

Size 11 Seed Beads – Metallic Silver

3mm Bugle Beads – Aquamarine

 

New Project

I worked on a brand new project over the weekend. It took me awhile but I came up with a new wide bracelet that I LOVE! The bracelet incorporates a pendant that i am going to be teaching in one of my youtube videos in the next few weeks. I came up with a ring originally and then made a pendant to match. (Both of these will be videos.) As I made the pendant I was thinking of how fun it would be to make it into a bracelet. I worked, took apart, worked, took apart, and worked until my head hurt. After a short nap I came back to my beading table with fresh eyes and was able to finish the project. I am going to work next week to get a pattern written so that after the ring and pendant video come out I can then post the bracelet on etsy.com. I love how the purple turned out and can't wait to try it in a few other colors to see how it turns out.


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Finished!

I added my beads and got these babies finished! They are so pretty. I only wished my iPad took better pictures so that you could see the color better.


I worked from home Friday and got the earrings finished and worked literally all day on a new bracelet design. Its very dressy but its loaded with crystals and in my book thats all that matters. :) I'm going to try to work from home on Wednesday so that I can get the pattern written for the bracelet and get a few more videos for the website finished. Meanwhile I'm going to go and get a bangle finished that i've been working on and then dive into a new surprise project. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

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