September 2011 Bead Trends

A big thank you goes out to Tatia Meyer for the privilege of being Bead Trends' Featured Designer in this month's issue: 

I was asked to send enough pieces of jewelry to fill approximately 10 pages, which, it turns out, is a tremendous amount of jewelry - whew!  I tried to push myself in the design and construction of these pieces, and I was really pleased with the outcome.

The first set is called "Wind and Waves", 
and features a beautiful bead and pendant set from Yolanda's Clay:

The second set is called "Caged", and features gorgeous slider rings from Beads of Passion:

The third set is called "Into the Fire", and features stunning lampwork beads from Blue Seraphim:

The fourth set is called "Endless River", 

and features lovely lampwork beads from 

Blue Seraphim

 and Firebabies

:

There are many more fabulous designers in this issue, including my friend, Holly Westfall of SilverRose Designs, who has her first published piece of jewelry - yea!  So pick up a copy and enjoy some eye candy!

Again, thank you so much Bead Trends for the fabulous photography and amazing opportunity!

Bead Table Wednesday (Thursday Edition): Soup's On!

I know I am a bit late, but I wanted to share the amazing group of beads that is on my bead table today.  Backing up a bit...

On Monday I opened up my mailbox to find a wonderful, exciting surprise:  My Bead Soup partner, Holly Westfall of SilverRose Designs, sent me the most fun box to open, and I wanted to share it with you:

First I opened up the outer box and found this:

I quickly opened the inner box and found this:

Which was sitting on top of these:

In each of these cute little individually wrapped packages were these:

A beautiful mix of handmade findings, gemstones, glass and copper in gorgeous hues of gold, blue, copper and cream.  I can't wait to get started! 

If you aren't familiar with Holly's work, here's a small sampling of her beautiful jewelry:

I highly encourage you to go out to her etsy shop here, and check out her blog here.

Happy beading everyone!