SOUPS ON..........

YUM YUM..................

The soup has been brewing on the back burner for quite a few days now and it is finally finished.
I can smell it and it sure smells good. I hope Dana over at
www.danasjewelryetc.artfire.com likes it as much as I do. I will be mailing it out to her on Monday. You will have to keep watching to see what she thinks, and how she uses it.
If you have not joined the party I can not even begin to tell you how much fun it is.
I am very much looking forward to getting my "soup" from Dana as well.
It should prove to be a fun week. I hope we both can try new things and perhaps learn a new technique as well.

Best wishs to my fellow partiers.
Alice

Latest work ~

Ok so I have to get better at taking pics but I thought I would show you a shot of my latest piece. I used herringbone and peyote stitches and a lampwork disc for the button. It was fun to watch it come together. I never know what the piece is going to look like done when I start out..It sort of has a life of it's own and takes shape as I go. That is the fun of it. It is like a mini mystery in every piece.

Bead Soup Blog Party Is Back

http://lorianderson.blogspot.com/p/bead-soup-blog-party.html

Check the site out and join us for some fun.

This is the best beading experience I have ever had!!

The element of surprise that you don't know what you will recieve in your package........
Then the fun of working it out to make a beautiful piece of art out of what you have
gotten. Then the joy of sharing it with others and getting feedback.
Who could ask for more?????

Lima Peru

As promised, here is the wonderful pic of the ladies in Peru receiving their necklaces. I was told that some of them were so happy they were crying and kissing them. I am sorry that I did not get a chance to post the before and after pics- as I did take pictures of the process. I do not have those pictures loaded yet though. There were 150 of the necklaces given out in Peru and I am told the rest will be going to Boliva shortly. How exciting is that! I am so happy to be able to be used by God to bless these women. I look forward to possibly being able to do this again sometime. It was a great opportunity. I would like to encourage other beaders to find a worthy cause to contribute to as well. It is a great way to get your art, as well as your talent, out there. It also will make you feel great to be able to help someone else. This too was "out of the box" for me. That was the purpose of the Bead Soup exchange. It was to push us to try something new and this certainly was one way to accomplish that. Joining the Bead Soup Blog "club" has opened up many new doors for me. It has taken my beading to a whole new level. I wish I could afford to quite my day job and just persue my passion. Perhaps one day God will open that door for me as well.

On a wing and a prayer.........

The necklaces are done for Peru! They will be leaving with my friend Mari in the morning. She is going to Lima Peru and I made 200 (194) necklaces for her to take and give to the people there. She is on a mission trip. This was a wonderful chance that I was given to be a small part of her mission trip. I hope that God can use the necklace to touch the ladies of Peru and show them of His great Love! Thanks to my beading Buddy Christa who helped with the crosses and who helped bail me out when my first supplier fell through on the cord order. I could not have done this without her support. The cord was fabulous to work with! She also gave me great advice. She gave in memory of a friends granddaughter that recently died during child birth. God be with that family as they deal with her death. I have taken pics of the construction of the necklaces and my studio (kitchen table). It is good to get things back in order as I have been working on this project for about a month. I have to get a zip drive to download my pics on as I had them saved to a drive on my computer and due to a glitch they got dumped the other day- thankfully they are still on the camera. I will get that soon so I can show you the work and finished product. As they say a pic is worth a thousand words! Mari has asked me if I would like to join her on a mission trip next year. I will be praying for God's guidence in that matter. I trust you all had a great 4th of July. We took the kids on their first camping trip. For those of you that do not know I have 2 boys ages 12 and 15. They had fun but we sure did sweat. We hope to go again.

IT IS HERE

THESE ARE SOME PICS OF THE WONDERFUL NEW BEAD SOUP I GOT FROM MY PARTNER CHRISTA MURPHY. AFTER SOME EXCHANGE OF COLORS WE LIKE AND OUR TASTES, THIS IS WHAT SHE PICKED OUT TO SEND ME. SHE DID A GREAT JOB DON'T YOU THINK!! I LOVE THE BRIGHT COLORS. THEY ARE SO ME