Treasures by Louise

This giveaway is closed now. Congratulations to the winner! Please check out Lorelei's Blog for a giveaway of her fantastic linen cord: Week-of-giveaways-wednesday and go back again for more giveaways on Thursday and Friday! Pretty colors from Lorelei's "A Jewelry Accord on Etsy"

I have a request from a special person for a Birthday Necklace and these glass beads are part of the inspiration. We had the black and green faceted beads first, to me they resemble reptile skin with their coloration. The green faceted beads brighten things up a little and they go nicely with the dress. Hematite works but it all is a bit too dark. I made a (center) wire wrapped section of three links, but am at a stand still for the moment. Glass and Hematite beads The dress is a white background with black, grey and green large 3-5" floral motif . I have some creamy white shell beads and some pale green quartzite and some green quartzite chips. I'm also considering some silver beads to brighten things up. If you have ideas on what you'd add to these beads, please leave a comment.  I don't have a focal bead in mind but one of the pewter animal beads in this Giveaway might be just the thing. Don't you think I should win!?? I'm sharing a link to Lor...

Here is my entry for Lorelei's Blog Hop Challenge: Inspired by the Blue/Teal Resin Sliders from Michaels and my impression that they look so much like water bubbles. I found some beautiful glass beads the same day, and added gold tone beading wire and brass spacers, as well as some Crystazzi bicones and Bead Gallery bicones I had on my beading table. I tried to evoke the feeling of a waterfall and the spray of fine mist at the base of a waterfall.  In my mind's eye I was remembering hiking in Michigan's Upper Peninsula to view the many waterfalls last summer. What fun , and many thanks to Lorelei Eurto for challenging us! Here's the link to Lorelei's Blog Slider Blog Hop Reveal And h ere is the blog list : BeadLolaBead CabeWoman MustardBead.blog-hop-reveal. A Polyme r Penchant Pearl  and Pebble: Challenge reveal Peacock Fairy: challenge bubble Beads for Busy Gals: resin bauble Dawn's Blog Shirley Moore B Street Studios Sally Russick Pamela 7...

Here are a few items used in the waterfall necklace for Lorelei's slider challenge blog hop: Included are Crystazzi 6mm Light Green Bicone crystals, green seed beads, brass spacers, crimps, jump rings and Beadalon gold plated 4mm crimp covers .

For our blog hop, t his Friday wi ll be the big reveal, but today I'm sharing a bit of photo inspiratio n for my necklace made with the cool acrylic sliders from Michaels. Enjoy! Michigan's upper peninsula has many beautiful waterfalls to inspire artists and crafters

I have been working with the Michaels sliders beads for the past month, and am looking forward to teaching the new Elegance classes at my local store! So when I saw a challenge to use some cool resin sliders, I ran right over to the store to pick up these. My first challenge to participate in (if I get chosen!) I admit they were something I in the past weeks hadn't been sure what to do with them; so I chose several others that were more my style. Today I found these interesting sliders and when I looked at the strung beads, I had a brainstorm! I can't wait to get started! Here's a link to the blog that started it al l, so you can check it out. Lorelei's Blog This pic, from Lorelei's blog depicts the same slider that I bought. Now to get started!