tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29384794950892390882024-02-08T00:16:07.925-06:00KayzKreationzBlog about Stained Glass, Mosaics, Fused Glass, Jewelry, Texas, and Family
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and my daughter-in-law's store: http://STRINGandSTONES.etsy.comKayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.comBlogger360125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-511178735923455802014-08-02T02:00:00.000-05:002014-08-09T16:57:46.188-05:00Summer Carnival Blog Hop and Chicklet Blog Hop<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're looking for my reveals for either the Summer Carnival blog hop or the Chicklet Bead blog hop, please return later. This has been an enormously busy summer for me (my youngest is getting married shortly and we've been helping with plans and showers). And with all the work we've been doing for the wedding and some other committments, I've sprained my wrist and hand and the arthritis has gotten worse in my thumb to the point I have dropped several things and broken them. I haven't been able to knot anything, twist wire or hold onto anything well enough to finish my designs. So I hope you can forgive me and check back later to see my finished designs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kay</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-61363637180793338752014-07-05T02:00:00.000-05:002014-07-30T21:08:00.336-05:00ZNETShows Summer Challenge Blog Hop<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Back in April I was notified that as part of the ZNETshows Design team I was part of a new challenge. This one was a Summer challenge. The theme was 'Summer Days and Nights' and focused on their Cultured Sea Glass. We were to go to <a href="http://www.znetshows.com/gemshow/index.asp" target="_blank">ZNETshows website</a> and pick out the 2 colors we'd like to design with to design a daytime 'casual' set and a nightime 'dressy' set. We were also sent a few other colors, beads, findings to go along with the sea glass we chose. I was interested in working with their red and black seaglass, so sent off my choices. I thought I had a picture of the stash I received, but I can't seem to find it on my compurter. But what I received in the following pieces was the red sea glass, black sea glass and purple tube beads. The other beads I had received from previous ZNETshows challenge. But these are the beads I used:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jet Black Barrel beads <a href="http://www.znetshows.com/GemShow/Retail/itemdetail.asp?ref=itembrowser.asp?StoneType=0&StoneSubType=0&shape=0&productLine=0&style=0&color=0&Keywords=jet%20black%20barrel%20beads&etc=&vendor=0&format=2&extra1=0&extra2=0&extra3=0&PTitle=Item%20Browser&PageNum=1&TotalPages=1&PerPage=20&ItemID=S74-B02" target="_blank">here</a>:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Glass pearls, </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clear crystals and </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oval Purple and Black beads (a type of dyed jasper).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next I made a necklace with the long tube beads. I used long headpins to make them dangles and hung them between a series of green crystals, orange and green seed beads, the clear dagger and off white heishi beads. I also took one of the abstract shapes and wire-wrapped a dangle from one end and wire-wrapped the other end to hang as a dangle from the necklace. And on the other side I strung one of the clear/white starfish into the strand. I had a small link of chain that I attached to the necklace along with the metal circle toggle clasp. I really like the beachy feel to this necklace and the 7 wire-wrapped tube beads/focal. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally I took a the last little short length of chain, divided it in half, wire-wrapped 3 dangles with the crystals, seed beads and daggers to make a pair of earrings to match. I really like the colors in this "Ocean" set and hope you do too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And a close up of the necklace and earrings.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm still working on my piece for the pendant. I'm trying a new technique and haven't quite gotten it finished. So come back later this week and I'm hoping to have it done for you to see.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't forget to visit all the other blogs participating in the hop <a href="http://gratefulartist.blogspot.com/2014/05/ocean-blog-hop-reveal-number-1.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. And don't forget to leave me a comment letting me know what you think of my "Ocean" Set. These will be available shortly in my shop, </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KayzKreationz</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, along with my other Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass kreationz for your Home and Garden.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-69222704320496545562014-05-24T04:00:00.000-05:002014-05-24T18:40:50.588-05:00Waxed Linen Blog Hop<div style="border-image: none;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(If you're looking for my BSBP Reveal post and design click <a href="http://www.kayzkreationz.blogspot.com/2014/05/bead-soup-blog-party.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>) Recently Diana of Suburban Girl studio issued a Waxed Irish Linen blog hop. The participants were to use waxed irish linen and preferably art beads to create a piece of jewelry. I had been wanting to try a tutorial I'd been eyeing so I felt like this was the opportune time to sign up for this. As usual I forgot to take a before picture of the linen and the art beads I got to use to try this. But I think you'll be able to tell what all they are in the pictures. I chose 2 different colors of linen, a tan and teal combo linen and got these great art beads on Etsy (I think it was from Sherry Stokey). I love the little beach house and the conch shell beads. This is a wrap bracelet, which I've been wanting to try for quite a while. I've had quite a few challenges since signing up for this blog hop. I had non-stop company for almost a month, have had to be out of town several times when I wasn't planning it and seem to be developing arthritis in one of my thumb joints. But I've been working on it and finally got it done. Also, the instructions weren't quite as clear as I felt they could have been. I used to do macramé back in the 70's and used all of these knots, but had forgotten the half-hitch and had a little bit of a problem understanding how it was being described. But I googled the know and finally got instructions that I could understand. I enjoyed getting back to some macramé and will be doing this wrap bracelet again with changes to it to make it my own design. I love the colors in the waxed linen and the numerous opportunities with macramé to make unique jewelry and other items. (I've even used macramé with my Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass kreationz like this piece below)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you're interested in any of my Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass kreationz for your Home or Garden, check out my shop, </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KayzKreationz</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Thanks. Happy hopping.</span></div>
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KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-35309209525491214412014-05-10T02:00:00.000-05:002014-05-11T17:57:02.250-05:00Bead Soup Blog Party<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's here! Finally the 8th Bead Soup Blog Party! Weeks ago, we signed up and were paired with our partners by Lori Anderson of Pretty Things. My great partner is Katrina Taylor of <a href="http://iwannagoout.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Is the Babysitter here yet?</a> blog. This is the great soup she sent me:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love it all, but I've been really challenged. There is so many great colors in this soup and I couldn't figure out what all to put with the focal and how to use the BIG hole copper beads. Also, I didn't just want to string the focal. As I kept looking at it, I kept seeing FLAMES! But I have to admit, I love flames. I used to have flame stripes on my truck until the stripes just became so worn looking and cracked/peeling that we had to take them off this last year. So I seem to be drawn to flames/fire. LOL I knew then that I wanted to create a bail or encase the focal with metal and I wanted it to look as though it was surrounded by flames. So I set to work finding flame pictures I liked and then trying to draw them off to be cut out of copper. I went through about 5-6 different designs, drawing, cutting out, redrawing until I came up with this one that would work with the metal and focal. But my challenge then was how to create the bail out of the same piece to hang the focal. And then what to hang it with, since now the focal is REALLY heavy! After finally figuring out how to do all that, I realized I wanted to flame paint/patina my metal, too, so it would look even more like flames. That was so much fun. I've just started doing some flame painting and was happy with my results. Here's a pic of the the front of the focal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But now my challenge was how to create the rest of the necklace. I didn't want to add too much to it and take away from the focal, so I started creating bead links with the crystals and amethyst chips Katrina sent me. But I wanted to carry that flame look through, so as I wrapped the beads I hammered the ends of the copper wire and then folded it down around the beads, hoping to get a flame look to the links. Then after taking a class on enameling, I got out my copper washers and practiced my enameling in some colors that I thought would complement the colors of the beads and the focal. I also wanted to enhance the great copper clasp that Katrina had flame painted for me so I wire wrapped some of the crystals and beads to the clasp and simply wire-wrapped the ring for the clasp to attach to. I'm happy with all my components, but not sure if I'm happy with the end result. I was going to use leather to hang the focal, but decided it wouldn't be strong enough to hold the weight of the stone and metal together. So I hammered another piece of heavy wire, textured it, punched the holes and flame patina'd it to slide through the flame bail on the top of the pendant. I like it, but the pendant keeps sliding around, so I may have to redo it or perhaps wire some copper wire around the hanging wire in between the 2 flames to hold it still. But I'm not sure it all looks right together. I'm hoping it grows on me, but if not, I'll try to redesign the necklace. I was running out of time to do anything more with it now, as I was gone for 10 days at the end of March, first of April and then I've had non-stop company since then till Sunday the 27th. Plus I've developed a problem with my left hand/thumb joint. Not sure if I've just hurt/sprained the join or I'm developing some arthritis in it, but it makes it difficult to hold anything ( I picked up a glass a week or two ago and dropped it and broke it because of not being able to hold it) and it is difficult to wire-wrap anything. I hope you like the finished necklace.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I hope you like all my creations with my soup. And I completely forgot to make any earrings to match anything, but I'm thinking I may want to enamel some more washers and attach some of the crystal or amethyst chips to them for earrings if they aren't too heavy. :)</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the rest of the participants in the Bead Soup Blog Party visit Lori Anderson's blog <a href="http://www.prettythingsblog.com/2014/05/welcome-to-8th-bead-soup-blog-party.html" target="_blank">Pretty Things</a>. There were over 400 participants who all got amazing partners and soups to create with. They all will inspire you.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're looking for any of my jewelry pieces or my Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass kreationz for your Home and Garden, check out with my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a>. Thanks. And <b><u>please</u></b> be sure to leave me a comment to let me know what you think of my pieces.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com76tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-47621356150678249482014-04-28T20:55:00.001-05:002014-04-28T20:55:24.185-05:00My Bead Soup party Partner and my Soup reveal<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm finally getting a chance to post about my great partner for the Bead Soup blog party. Her name is Katrina Taylor from '<a href="http://iwannagoout.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Is the Babysitter here Yet?</a>' blog. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She's a veterinarian from Pennsylvania, which is cool, since we do Wildlife management on our small Texas ranch. She loves metal work which is great, because I love metal, especially copper and she created this great flame-painted copper clasp for my soup. But she hasn't been able to work as much as she likes because her work area is in a cold area of her house and the winter there has been exceedingly cold. But she put together a great soup for me. Isn't this great? (And she kindly left out any BLUE, since I told her I'm not a fan of blue.) It contains a Natural stone focal bead, Czech glass beads and pearls, Swarovski butterfly, copper and brass components (clasp, beads and chain) and amethyst chips. I love it all. Now the challenge is what to do with it all to do it justice. (As usual I forgot my before pic, but Katrina had a great picture of the soup she sent me so she let me use it to show you this great soup.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here's the soup I sent her. I wanted to send her a Texas themed soup, so I cut out the state of Texas with my saw, flame painted it (it turned out a great red, which I felt was very appropriate as we're always HOT here in Texas, LOL) and riveted it to a textured brass background. I enclosed some lava beads, some hand created copper double-balled headpins, some Picture Jasper beads, some of what I call my Texas Tornado copper wire beads, a small brass clasp and a hand created Texas Yoke toggle clasp that I hammered and also flame painted, plus some teal leather. I wrapped it all up in this Orange bandana, since we were/use a lot of bandana's in Texas. My thought was she could use some or all of the bandana in her creations, but she told me her son loved the bandana and confiscated it and she may not be able to get it back to use. LOL So for all of you wondering what the theme was to my soup that I posted on facebook, here it is: TEXAS! :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be sure to come back on May 3rd for the reveal of what I made with my soup. And for more of my jewelry kreationz or my Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass kreationz for your Home and Garden, check out my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a>.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-90128043009493340602014-04-14T06:00:00.000-05:002014-04-14T06:00:10.062-05:00Create Three Dimensional Jewelry book review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kalmbach sent me another great book to review. This one is </span><a href="http://www.kalmbachstore.com/64940.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">'Create Three Dimensional Jewelry'</a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by Heather DeSimone. Heather lives in Maine and has been taking apart and putting together jewelry for 35 years and has been co-owner of The Beadin' Path and beadinpath.com since 1993. She was influenced by the work of Miriam Haskell and realized she didn't have to 'string' beads, but could 'build' her jewelry. She dabbled in vintage beads, but got an e-mail from a man in the Lucite bead business that had some beads to sell. She decided to check it out and came back with 3 semi-tractor trailer trucks with 40,000 lbs. of beads, plastic hoops, bangles and other components and decided to meet the challenge of using the brilliantly bold plastic pieces in her jewelry and inspiring others to use them, too. She has done a great job of that in this book. She starts with materials (small beads), nailheads, sew-ons, filigree, beads and buttons and more. Then she gets into the tools you need for stacking all the layers in your jewelry work and explains the Building Blocks of stacking and working in layers. In fact, she has other building blocks for stitching and creating surface adornment and constructing custom components, before you get into the projects. She describes elements you may use to incorporate into finished jewelry, then gives step by step projects for you to make. Along with that comes Tips to make your work go more smoothly, tidbits that are facts about jewelry or fashion for fun, and alternative projects based on the elements that are introduced in the projects. They are fun ideas to get your creative juices flowing.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've been trying to work with/add leather to some of my jewelry, so I really enjoyed her 'Boat seats to Begonias' project. They found some overstock vinyl at a fabric warehouse and used it to create upcycled vinyl flowers to mix with metal, Lucite flowers and other materials for a fabulous Statement necklace.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my favorites, though was the Memory wire Cuff. I've been working with memory wire quite a bit and I loved the way she built on this cuff to make this wonderful bracelet.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Silver Lining necklace is featured on the front of the book and another favorite of mine is the 'Down by the Sea' stitched cuff where she stitches found seashell beads and frosted glass to a copper cuff. I love it. Be sure to check out the book for both of these projects.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All in all, this is a great book to add to your repertoire for jewelry inspiration and learning how to 'build' your jewelry to make it unique and find your own style. I loved it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're looking for some of my jewelry or Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass kreationz for your home or garden, check out my shop, </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KayzKreationz</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-64939917711087717402014-04-06T05:00:00.000-05:002014-04-06T05:00:00.045-05:00Color of Dreams Blog Hop<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today is the day. I signed up for Rita of Jewel School friends' Color of Dreams blog hop. She graciously sent all the participants an orphan/ooak bead from Patricia of Color of Dreams Boutique to create with. We were to <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">share a dream that has come true, one we are working on now, or one we hope for in the future. The one goal of the hop: we'll focus on our dreams as entirely possible, with the idea, "If we can dream it, we can achieve it". I love her pillow beads. They have so much color in them. This is the bead I received. Isn't it wonderful?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you're looking for Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass kreationz for your Home or Garden, check out my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a>. You will find some of my beaded, wire-wrapped jewelry there, too.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-2276331388312887082014-03-18T06:00:00.000-05:002014-03-19T07:09:05.057-05:008th Bead Soup Blog Party Partner and Soup Teaser<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've signed up for Lori Anderson's latest Bead Soup Blog Party. I love these. This is the 8th one. She pairs you with a partner, you e-mail back and forth so you can get to know each other a little bit and the you create a 'soup' of beads and other materials to send to each other to play with and create something with. I've always been in awe of all the talent I see while blog hopping all the other participants in the Blog Hop. (By the way, that's a requirement. You have to have a blog so that on a specified day, you blog about your 'soup', what inspired you and what you created).</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time around I was paired with Katrina Taylor. This is her first time to participate, so I'm doubly honored to not only get to participate, but be able to help/have fun with someone new to the Party! She just started creating jewelry again about a year ago and most of what she makes right now is for friends and family. But after checking out her blog,<a href="http://iwannagoout.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"> I wanna go out</a>, you wouldn't guess she'd only been doing it for a year. She loves Metal beads, Polymer and Metal clay and glass, but says she doesn't really have a style. She mainly just lets the beads and materials 'speak' to her about what to make. She makes some of her own beads and focals and loves BLUE! LOL As many of you know, blue is one of my least favorite colors, although I seem to be using a lot of blue lately.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is a veterinarian, so we have something in common, since she likes working with animals and we do Wildlife management here on our small Texas ranch. She also likes to eat out a lot. LOL So here is a teaser of the 'Soup' I put together for her.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Come back in a few days and you'll get to see the soup I sent, the soup I received and find out the Theme behind the soup I sent. And don't forget to check back May 3rd for the Reveal. Be sure to check out my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a> for my other jewelry, Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass 'kreationz' for your Home and Garden.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-51893193476151493992014-03-17T06:00:00.000-05:002014-03-17T06:00:03.722-05:00Beautiful Leather Jewelry book Review<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's another great book from <a href="http://www.kalmbachstore.com/67036.html" target="_blank">Kalmbach books</a>. This one comes to us from Melissa Cable, called, Beautiful Leather Jewelry, timeless techniques for today's trends. Melissa is a mixed media artist who love to develope new designs and techniques with traditional and non-traditional materials from metal, leather, wood, clay and found objects. Since </span><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I, too, love leather and metal this book really called to me, putting leather, metal and other components together in great jewelry pieces.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She starts off with the Basics for Leatherworking using her 'key' to how leather works and how you can use it in your projects. The first section covers the different types of leather besides cow leather. Things like Snakeskin, Fish leathers (which I've been hearing more and more about and what to try as soon as I can find some) and even Ostrich leather. Melissa also covers the different types of tanning, dyeing and grades of leather besides how to purchase it and even recycle it.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next section covers the different tools to use as well as equivalents you may already have at home to use on your leather. This includes things like stamps, corrugators and even mallets/hammers to use to texture/shape your leather. Next is a section on hardware to use to finish your leather or decorate it and then finishing it to make clasps/closures for your pieces. There's even a part on Special Effects for your leather like dyes, paints, and sealants for your leather pieces.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then she moves into Making Leather jewelry starting with Technique Tutorials and then the Jewelry projects. I really like cuff bracelet, so the tutorials on cuffs really intrigued me. The Mesa Pendant was interesting to me, too, since I love texture and the stacked pieces were cool. 2 of my favorite projects were the Four Seasons collar since I also really like collars and the textured leather discs and metal discs together combined 2 of my favorite mediums.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next one is the Laurel Necklace, because I really love nature and loved the shape, look and texture of the leather leaves in this necklace.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally at the end is a section on Beads and More Jewelry from leather. I especially liked the Rolled Leather Column Beads with the rivet decoration in them. I can see myself using these a lot in my jewelry projects. If using leather is something you've wanted to learn more about in your projects, check out Kalmbach books for Melissa Cable's book, <a href="http://www.kalmbachstore.com/67036.html" target="_blank">Beautiful Leather Jewelry</a>.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a Leather/Metal bracelet I made for my Patina challenge I was in that was inspired by my reading Melissa's book. It uses Leather, metal, rivets, chain, patina and cogs/gears in it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're interested in my 'Find Your Way to My Heart' bracelet or any of my other jewelry check out my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a>. There you will also find my Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass 'kreationz' for your Home and Garden.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-33860599476790444292014-03-12T04:00:00.000-05:002014-03-12T04:00:03.882-05:00Weaving Freeform Wire Jewelry<div style="border-image: none;">
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<a href="http://www.kalmbachstore.com/67033.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> She starts off with the basics about wire, frame and weaving wires, selecting your wire, wire shapes, wire hardness, wire size or gauge and metals and colors. She also cover other materials you may want to incorporate into your weaving such as beads and stones, embellishments and findings. There is also a section on Tools and Supplies as well as Wire Techniques. Her pictures are very well done and easy to see/understand. She also tells you how to fix a mistake (which I'm sure I'm going to need a lot-at least at first). Then she gets into the Weaves. And after each weave, she has a project for you to try once you've practiced the weave. I have seen so many wonderful pieces done with wire weaving and always wondered HOW they did that. Well now I'll be able to weave myself. After the chapter on all the weaves along with projects to make from those weaves, she added Chapter 2 which take you to the next level and shows you how the weaves and techniques you learned in the previous chapter can be used to create more advanced, multi-level designs. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to go that far with my wire work, but it doesn't hurt to dream. Kaska teaches classes at her studio in Cincinnati, Ohio and displays and sells her jewelry at art shows in the Midwest. She has won numerous awards and her woven bracelet design was featured on the cover of March 2012 Art Jewelry magazine. So if you're ever in the Cincinnati area, look her up and take a class. It looks like from the book, you'll love it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many great designs in the book, but so far my favorite is the Gnarly Bangle on page 59 which incorporates the circular weave and the cylindrical weave. Just be prepared to use a LOT of wire. LOL Here it is:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">Isn't it wonderful? I can't wait to try making it. And if you're looking for some of my other Beaded wire-wrapped jewelry, Stained Glass, Mosaics, Fused Glass kreationz for your Home or Garden, check out my shop, </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" style="font-family: Verdana;" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">. Please comment below and let me know what you think about the book. Thanks. And be sure to go to</span><a href="http://www.kalmbachstore.com/67033.html" style="font-family: Verdana;" target="_blank"> Kalmbach</a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;"> and purchase the book to get your creative wire weaving juices flowing.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had my post all ready to go, had the pictures uploaded and then had to go out of town. No problem, I was taking my iPad with me so I could polish it up some before posting. Unfortunately, I can't seem to edit my blog posts on my iPad without deleting something. I've tried a couple of times and it always happens. So lesson learned, just don't edit with an iPad. :) Anyway, thanks for bearing with me and here goes:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently Kathy at <a href="http://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com/2014/02/patina-compass-reveal-and-giveaway.html" target="_blank">BayMoonDesign</a> issued a challenge. She was picking 10 people to send a Vintaj compass piece to. We were to patina it any way we wanted and then make something with it. I haven't been happy with any of my patina efforts so far, but thought maybe this would help me figure out what to do and how to patina something I was happy with, so I signed up. I got my wonderful compass piece, started to work on it and then had to put it up to go out of town for a business conference. Well I THOUGH I had put it up, but my Manx cat, Lata decided he could get to it anyway. And when I came home from the conference, the compass was nowhere to be found. (It still is MIA, despite having turned half the house upside down. I'm sure one of these days it will turn up. LOL) Anyway, I e-mailed Kathy and asked if I could buy one somewhere so I could still participate. She graciously mailed me another one. This one I made sure was with me all the time so Lata couldn't get to it. I forgot to take a pic before I started the sanding, but in this picture I've sanded the point in the center, the direction letters, the edge and the little arrows (?) all around the outside ring. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">I then took some brass and silver cogs and washers I had and patina'd them. I knew I wanted a 'steampunk' look to this bracelet(although I've never done Steampunk, so this is my first attempt at that also). After I had the brass washers done I decided I didn't like the look of the silver cogs on the brass washers, because they just faded into the background, so I turned them over and hammered them instead. Then I got busy punching holes in the leather. I had intended to texture the leather, but forgot. I HATE punching holes in leather because I don't have a hole punch strong enough to go through the leather. So I had to use a thick darning needle to try to start the hole and then my hole punch to finish out the hole. This was very difficult, but I finally got all the holes punched. However, after finally getting the little clips on the back of the compass pushed through 2 of the holes, they broke off while trying to bend them back over to hold the compass. So now what to do? I really didn't want to wire it to the leather, but Karla (from Texas Pepper Jams) and I had just gotten to play with our torches a week or two ago and had made some balled copper headpins. I punched 2 holes on the inside ring of the compass on the E/W sides, then took the balled headpins which added another little pop of red to the piece, pushed them through and twisted/spiraled them together on the back side. Viola! My compass was now attached.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">I had originally intended to rivet the cogs/washers to the leather, but realized I didn't have any rivets large enough for the holes in the washers, so stumped again. I found 2 beads I thought would go well with the piece, took another 2 of my balled headpins, put them through the beads, through the cogs and washers and twisted/spiraled them on the backside, making sure all the wire and ends were smooth enough to not rub the skin when I wear the bracelet.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">Then I attached a little silver heart I had to the bottom of the leather piece because I wanted to name this piece "Find your way to my Heart" (because of the compass) And finally I decided to make it a double chain bracelet, so punched 4 more holes in the leather, made my own jump rings our of some Annealed Steel wire I had, attached the 4 pieces of chain, made a clasp out of the same Steel wire and Viola!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be sure to visit all the other participants of the blog hop below or going to Kathy's <a href="http://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com/2014/02/patina-compass-reveal-and-giveaway.html" target="_blank">BayMoonDesigns</a> blog. (Hopefully the links will work, but the way things have been going for me, they may not. LOL) Thanks for bearing with me and stopping by.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">Looking for more of my jewelry or Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass pieces, check out my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;"> <span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">Jennifer LaVite, <a href="http://www.drygulchbeadsandjewelry.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Dry Gulch Beads and Jewelry</a> </span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;"> <span data-measureme="1"><span class="null">Karla Morgan, <a href="http://texaspepperjams.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Texas Pepper Jams</a></span></span></span><span style="color: #4c1130;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130;">Claire Fabian, <a href="http://saraccino.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Saraccino</a><a href="http://saraccino.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> </a></span><br /><span style="color: #4c1130;"> Christie Searle Murrow<span data-reactid=".r[564xs].[1][3][1]{comment604354479614176_605421629507461}.[0].{right}.[0].{left}.[0].[0].[0][2]">, </span><span data-measureme="1"><span class="null"> <a href="http://www.charisdesignsjewelry.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Charis Designs</a></span></span></span><br />
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KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-18302205131723581522014-02-28T06:00:00.000-06:002014-02-28T07:06:53.658-06:00BayMoonDesign Patina Challenge blog hop<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please bear with me. I'm having technical issues on my iPad and just deleted my pictures for the challenge. Unfortunately they're on my computer at home and I can't load them again until I get back on my laptop. I should be able to get that post up Sunday night.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks. In the meantime be sure to visit all the participants in BayMoonDesign for the Patina blog hop challenge.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-45148874006546020832014-01-27T02:00:00.000-06:002014-01-27T02:00:11.997-06:00ZNETshows Winter Pearl Challenge<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As part of the ZNETshows design team, our newest challenge was for the Winter Glossi. It is a Winter Pearls Challenge. We were to pick out 3 pearl items and 2 other items, either crystals or base metal. These are the items I picked:
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teardrop round Beads 0 Raspberry Color K0588 9x7mm </span></div>
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Necklace antique silver tone Chains-antique silver about 3-9mm </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have always wanted some of that leaf chain to work with, so this was a great opportunity. Now I knew those 16mm round glass pearls would be large, but I guess I didn't realize HOW large. LOL I had googled the size and it just didn't register, I guess, because when I received them, I was in shock for a little while. I hadn't ever worked with something that large and round. So, this has been a little bit of a challenge for me. Here's a picture of what I picked and received.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I finally decided I wanted to make a bracelet with some of the large round Pearls. During all this time, my son and daughter-in-law have been here visiting and helping us do some work on the ranch, so I've been limited in my time to work on my designs. But she suggested I use some of my pink silk/fiber in my bracelet and necklace design. So I got it out, cut it up, accordion folded it and punched through it with a large darning needle and strung it between the Raspberry teardrop pearls and the large Off-white Pearls. I added a small silver toggle clasp and love the way it turned out.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The necklace has been giving me fits, though. I just haven't liked any design I've come up with so far. But I finally decided to try this. I strung some of the large Off-white Pearls with the Raspberry teardrops and the pink fiber. Then in the center I added a section of the leaf chain as the focal with the small Red glass cubes and the Butter rice pearls as dangles. I think I like the way it turned out. Hopefully ZNET and Hope will like it too and feature it in the ZNETshows Winter Pearl Challenge Glossi coming out in December.</span><br />
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<br />KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-30720059026899307282014-01-24T02:00:00.000-06:002014-01-24T02:00:03.589-06:00Hot and Cold Jewelry Connections Book Review<div style="border-image: none;">
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recently received this book from <a href="http://www.kalmbachstore.com/" target="_blank">Kalmbach</a> Publishing for review. It's written by Kieu Pham Gray. This is a fantastic book describing how to make jewelry with and without a torch. So many of us don't have the place to use a torch in our homes or are afraid to fire a torch in our homes. So I love Kieu's approach to this. She teaches you about the materials, tools and techniques in using metal to make jewelry so you can choose which approach works best for you or the piece, with or without a torch. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She starts out with the Basics on materials, covering different metals, wire and wire gauge and strength as well as tips on how to save money on recycled jewelry wire and using less expensive metal/wire especially when starting and practicing. She then covers the Basics in tools, starting out with the 'must have tools' moving on to tools to add over time and finally the 'luxury' tools we all would like to have. Finally she moves into the Basics with Techniques. This section covers making loops, cutting and piercing metal, riveting with tube and wire rivets, metal stamping, adding color or patina, annealing and soldering, sawing, texturing, filing and sanding, gluing and finally polishing. Whew! That's a lot of information. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then we get to the 'Projects!' And what wonderful projects they are. And my favorite part is that they are always in pairs, made with hot connections, i.e. soldering and cold connections in so many different ways. The funny thing is, that in each of these projects I had a favorite, but it wasn't always the same. Sometimes it was the hot connection and sometimes the cold connection. So I have my work cut out for me in making some of these projects. LOL I really like the little Pod pendants on the cover of the book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">And these little Memento pendants are adorable.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">But my favorite project is the Flourish bracelet! And I like it both ways, hot and cold. So I may have to make one of each. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">I can't wait to get started with my projects, inspired by her love of connections and teaching in this book. Plus, she's coming to my local bead store in Killeen, Texas, Bead Bistro! So, I'm planning on getting my book signed AND hopefully taking a class from her. I can't wait. So, if you've been unsure about how to use Connections in your jewelry to enhance it or weren't sure of which way was best, be sure to get over to <a href="http://www.kalmbachstore.com/67027.html" target="_blank">Kalmbach</a> books and get your copy of Hot & Cold Jewelry Connections. You'll love it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">For some of my wire-wrapped and beaded jewelry I've already made, check out my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a>. I also have Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass kreationz for your Home and Garden.</span></div>
KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-20820542096468854412014-01-11T02:00:00.000-06:002014-01-11T02:00:00.566-06:00Into the Forest Blog Hop<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A while back, Lisa Lodge of A Grateful Artist sent out a challenge. She was providing beads for a blog hop with the theme, "Into the Forest". The challenge was to see how we would interpret that theme with these beads. I signed up and love the beads I received. They look to me to be a jasper of some kind with the dark green donut that reminds me of deep into the forest. I immediately thought of my red jasper beads that would help bring out the greens of the forest along with the changing colors of the forest as it moves into the fall months. I love fall and the colors it brings, although we don't really get much color here in Texas. But I grew up in the Ozarks of Missouri and miss those colors every fall. I also had this great copper leaf chain that I thought would be wonderful with all that fall color and remind us of all the leaves, falling or not, in the forest. Here's the beads I received and my beads I added.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, in the last 3 months, I've been gone on trips 3 times, had company for a week or more twice and ended up cutting fingers on both hands. So my creating has been a little challenged. But I finally got to start yesterday, so hoping I get both the pieces I envisioned finished in time. The first thing I wanted to make was either an anklet or some more boot jewelry. I'm not sure this is long enough to wrap around your boot, although I could add more jump ring links and make it long enough. I need to measure it. But as an anklet it turned out great. I cut off a small piece of the leaf chain, wire-wrapped three of the stoned I received and six of the medium size jasper beads and interspersed them with the leaves. I wire-wrapped the small jasper with brass headpins so it would look like small shafts of light shining through the forest. I'm not real pleased with the closure yet, but I can always change that later.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally, here's a pair of earrings I made with some of the larger green jasper beads, the green crystals and the small and large size red jasper beads I had. I wanted the large red jasper beads to dangle. I tried them on these gold toned ear wires. But I'm not sure I like them, so I may be changing out the ear wires for copper ones as soon as I get a chance to make some. And another pair of earrings with 2 more of the larger nuggets and the crystals and my medium jasper beads. I love wire-wrapping the nuggets and the jasper beads. I have plans for a bracelet, but ran out of time. Hope you like all my designs. Let me know what you think.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Karla Morgan, </span></span><a href="http://www.texaspepperjams.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Texas Pepper Jams</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking for these designs to buy and wear? Check them out soon in my shop, </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KayzKreationz</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Or looking for some great Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass kreationz for your Home or Garden? They're in my shop, too. Enjoy.</span></div>
</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-4109783676513753802013-11-16T02:00:00.000-06:002013-11-16T02:00:13.772-06:00Clay and Lampwork Blog Hop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently Lisa Lodge of Pine Ridge Treasures sent out the call for another blog hop. This one is a Clay and/or Lampwork Blog Hop. We signed up and received either a Clay or Lampwork set of beads to work with. I received some wonderful Lampwork beads from </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BastilleBleuLampwork"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bastille Bleu</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Again, I forgot to take a picture of the beads before starting, but later in the pictures I'll pinpoint the 3 wonderful beads I received. I knew I wanted to do something that would either be a multi-strand necklace or have the appearance of multi-strands. And as I played around with the beads, I didn't like the looks of the small blue bead in between the 2 larger lovely flower beads. So I decided they should be the focal for the lower strand of the necklace. But I wasn't sure I had enough beads to make 2 or 3 full strands. So I started playing around with one main strand, done with 2 strands of beading wire and then splitting right at the center to use the 2 larger beads as the focal and the smaller blue bead above it in a shorter strand to make it appear to be 2 strands. The more I played with it, the more I liked it. I had just received all the glass pearls and faceted beads I'd won from ZNETshows and their last challenge I was in. It was great, since I'm not much of a blue person and don't usually have much blue in my stash. There was some wonderful blue beads along with the greens, clear, yellow faceted glass beads that matched the colors that were in the larger lampwork flower beads along with some white glass pearls. I also bought some pink round and faceted round glass/shell beads to bring out the pinks. I wanted this to be a very 'blingy' necklace to make the Lampwork flower beads shine. Then I had to make sure 2 strands of beading wire would fit through all the beads I was using. And finally I had to figure out how to finish off the strands. I had this lovely Silver colored leaf toggle bar clasp that came in my winnings from ZNET and thought it would go well with the 'flower' beads. But I couldn't get the crimp beads to take both strands of wire up through around the jump ring and back down through the crimps. It was too much. So I had to divide the 2 strands on the one main strand and crimp them both to a jump ring. Then I made another strand to make the necklace appear as 3 strands in the center and had to crimp them to another jump ring and attach the 2 jump rings to the leaf toggle bar clasp. It was a little more difficult than I had imagined, but I finally got them all crimped and attached. I love the way they turned out. And of course I had to have earrings to match. So I hope you enjoy what I made with my lampwork beads. In the first picture the 2 larger flower lampwork beads and the small blue lampwork bead in the short strand just above are the three beads I received. Let me know what you think.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then, because I got done so quick with this set, I asked for another set and got these gorgeous lampwork beads from<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/StudioJuls" target="_blank">StudioJuls</a> along with the small pink/orange seed beads. And as usual, forgot the pictures, but if you look close at my bracelet, they're the large round lampwork beads. There's 4 of them in this bracelet. I paired them with some great Jasper I had, some gold glass pearls from ZNETshows, the small pink/orange seed beads and some small black seed beads I had. This was my first go at a memory wire bracelet and I knew I wanted it to be 3 strands. It took me 3 times of stringing, removing and restringing the beads to get enough on the memory wire. I had laid them all out and thought I had enough, but NOT! LOL. But I think it turned out great for my first Memory Wire bracelet. Hope you enjoy it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And if you're looking for more of my Beaded or Wire-wrapped jewelry or Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass Kreationz for your home or garden, check out </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KayzKreationz</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, be sure to check out what everyone else made with their Clay or Lampwork sets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Your hostess:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lisa Lodge, </span><a href="http://www.gratefulartist.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc6611;">A Grateful Artist</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Mary Govaars, </span><a href="http://www.mlhjewelrydesigns.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc6611;">MLH Jewelry Designs</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Melissa Trudinger, </span><a href="http://beadrecipes.wordpress.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2862c5; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bead Recipes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Laurie Vyselaar, <a href="http://lefthandjewelry.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Lefthand Jewelry</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Loretta, <a href="http://www.designsbyloretta.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #cc6611;">Loretta's Boutique</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Shirley Moore, </span><a href="http://beadsandbread.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2862c5; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Beads and Bread</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bonnie Coursolle, </span><a href="http://jaspersgems.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc6611;">Jasper's Gems</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Alice Craddick, </span><a href="http://www.alicesbeadsandbaubles.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc6611;">Alice's Beads and Baubles</span></span></a> <br />
<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">If the links don't work, check out <a href="http://gratefulartist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">A Grateful Artist</a> for the master list. Thanks.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-54796360284433057732013-10-27T06:00:00.000-05:002013-10-27T08:07:04.966-05:00OctoberFest or What do you do for Fall?<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A while back, Rita/JewelSchoolFriends challenged us all to do something for Fall. It could be pictures, jewelry, bead-making, recipes, whatever. Then we were to post it on our blog. I love fall, so I signed up to participate. Growing up in the Ozarks of Missouri, I love fall. I love the colors of fall, the changing of the leaves, the cool, crisp weather (although I'm always cold) because it gives me a chance to wear my sweaters. However, living here in Texas for the last 37 years, there's not a lot of color change here. I really miss all the reds, oranges and yellows of the leaves when they change colors. However, we recently spent a week in New York and guess what? The trees/leaves were changing. I loved it. I thought, what a great addition to my Octoberfest post. So here's a few of my Fall/Octoberfest photos to delight with.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also love to bake cookies, muffins and such in the fall. Here's a recipe I found that looks delicious. I'm getting ready to try these. They're called Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins. They sound wonderful and look wonderful, too. I love the smell of baking in the fall/winter and especially pumpkin. So here's the recipe for anyone that wants to try them with me. (These may turn out a little dark, so try lowering the temp to 375)</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plus, I was able to take a class on fold-forming and enameling recently and love the way these turned out. I call them my Fall Leaves. I really like the orange/red color from heating with the torch to anneal and then enamel. I've got a couple of ideas for them and just need to find the right beads and the time to try it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Plus one last picture. I love Fall/October for the Mums, too. I recently saw this great pot of Mums and had to have them for my porch. They'll go in the ground later, but for now, I'll keep them on my porch.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you enjoy my Fall/Octoberfest post. Here's a list of all the participants. Hop by to see what they like about Fall/Octoberfest.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22.76px;">Caroline <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1653116946"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http:// </span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.76px;"><a href="http://carolynscreationswa.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">Carolynscreationswa.blogspot.com</span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.76px;">Andrea Glick-Zenith </span><a href="http://zenithjade.blogspot.com/" style="color: blue; cursor: pointer; line-height: 22.76px;" target="_blank">http://zenithjade.blogspot.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.51px;">Dolores Raml </span><a href="http://craftydscreations.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; line-height: 19.51px;" target="_blank">http://craftydscreations.wordpress.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.51px;">Karla Morgan <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1653116830"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.51px;"><a href="http://texaspepperjams.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">TexasPepperJams.blogspot.com</span></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Susie Harris <a href="http://jewelleryjunkie.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://jewelleryjunkie.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.26px;">Susan </span><a href="http://libellulajewelry.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: blue; cursor: pointer; line-height: 15.85px;" target="_blank">http://libellulajewelry.com</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mischelle <a href="http://micheladasmusings.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://micheladasmusings.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Billi <a href="http://billi-rs-rothove.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://billi-rs-rothove.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kay Thomerson <a href="http://kayzkreationz.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://kayzkreationz.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jean Yates <a href="http://prettykittydogmoonjewelry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://prettykittydogmoonjewelry.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kelly Hosford Patterson <a href="http://travelingsideshow.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://travelingsideshow.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathy Lindemer <a href="http://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://bay-moon-design.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Liz E <a href="http://beadcontagion.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://beadcontagion.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jasvanti Patel <a href="http://jewelrybyjasvanti.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://jewelrybyjasvanti.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christie Murrow <a href="http://www.charisdesignsjewelry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">www.charisdesignsjewelry.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jodie Marshall <a href="http://marshalljodie.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://marshalljodie.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Andrea Trank <a href="http://heavenlanecreations.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://heavenlanecreations.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dini Bruinsma <a href="http://angazabychanges.blogspot.nl/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://angazabychanges.blogspot.nl</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elsie Deliz Fonseca <a href="http://ladelizchica.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://ladelizchica.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kathleen <a href="http://99bobotw.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://99bobotw.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alicia Marinache <a href="http://www.allprettythings.ca/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://www.allprettythings.ca</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Linda Anderson <a href="http://fromthebeadboard.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://fromTheBeadBoard.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leah Curtis <a href="http://beadyeyedbunny.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://beadyeyedbunny.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jennifer Reno (JenRen) <a href="http://jenrenjewelry.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://jenrenjewelry.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Robin Reed <a href="http://willowdragon.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://willowdragon.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tanty Sri Hartanti <a href="http://www.tjewellicious.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">www.tjewellicious.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lisa Lodge <a href="http://gratefulartist.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://gratefulartist.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ingrid A. <a href="http://lilisgems.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://lilisgems.wordpress.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judy Turner <a href="http://www.silver-rains.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">www.silver-rains.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gina Hockett <a href="http://freestyleelements.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://freestyleelements.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nelly May <a href="http://www.smellynelly.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">www.smellynelly.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tanya McGuire <a href="http://tanyamcguire.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://tanyamcguire.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ahowin <a href="http://www.blog.ahowinjewelry.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://www.blog.ahowinjewelry.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sonya Stille <a href="http://dreaminofbeads.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://dreaminofbeads.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pam <a href="http://www.klassyjoolz.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://www.klassyjoolz.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Carol D. <a href="http://dillmansdallies.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://dillmansdallies.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Asri Wahyuningsih <a href="http://asribeadwork.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://asribeadwork.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ginger Bishop <a href="http://lilmummylikes.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://lilmummylikes.blogspot.com</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Janine <a href="http://www.esfera.me/travel/blog/travel-stories"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://www.esfera.me/travel/blog/travel-stories</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shaiha Williams <a href="http://shaihasramblings.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">http://shaihasramblings.blogspot.com/</span></a></span></div>
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Toltec Jewels (Rita, your hostess) <a href="http://www.jewelschoolfriends.com/"><span style="color: #0a3c6a;">www.JewelSchoolFriends.com</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you're looking for Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass Kreationz for your Home and Garden or some of my Wire-wrapped, Beaded Jewelry, check out my shop, </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KayzKreationz</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-9931141860048582232013-10-01T10:08:00.001-05:002013-10-01T10:08:25.690-05:00ZNETshows Keychain Lightning Round<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another great ZNETshows challenge. I was contacted a few weeks back by Hope of Crafty Hope and ZNETshows about doing a lightning round challenge with their </span><a href="http://znetshows.com/GemShow/Retail/itemdetail.asp?ref=itembrowser.asp?StoneType=0&StoneSubType=0&shape=0&productLine=0&style=0&color=0&Keywords=keychain&etc=&vendor=0&format=2&extra1=0&extra2=0&extra3=0&PTitle=Item%20Browser&PageNum=1&TotalPages=1&PerPage=20&ItemID=FJ776-01" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keychain hooks</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. The idea was, we pick out 2 beads and they'll send them along with some of the keychain hooks for us to design something with. They got delayed a little because the keychain hooks were out of stock. But I finally received them last Thursday and got to work. I ran into a snag with my first design and am still working on it, but I got my other 2 designs finished and am presenting them here for you to see and let me know what you think. I chose these </span><a href="http://www.znetshows.com/GemShow/Retail/group5.asp?ProductCode=RS261&vendorkey=4&NavbarFlag=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black Matte faceted glass bead crystals</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and these </span><a href="http://www.znetshows.com/GemShow/Retail/group5.asp?ProductCode=RS157&vendorkey=4&NavbarFlag=1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Orange and Cream faceted glass rondelles crystals</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. I wired wrapped and attached to some silver chain I had, the Orange and Cream crystals along with some black seed beads and oval beads I had. I attached those 3 to the bottom of the Black Faceted Crystal and Orange and Cream crystal and then attached everything to the Keychain. This is my Black and Orange 'Chained' keychain, zipper pull or purse bling. I prefer them as purse bling. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My second design is my 'Tribal' keychain, zipper pull or purse bling. Again, I prefer Purse Bling. LOL. I hammered the end of silver colored wire, then strung the Orange and Cream crystals, the Black Faceted Crystal the and the black seed beads and oval bead I had on one of each of the 'tribal' wires. I then hammered the other end and did a simple loop to attach them to the keychain. In between each of the 3 'tribal' wires, I hammered more silver colored wire in shorter lengths, did a simple loop and attached them in between the 'tribal' wires. I also wire-wrapped one of the Orange and Cream crystals and attached it to the loop on the bottom of the Center 'tribal' wire for a little more dangle and bling. Hope you like my Keychains/Purse Bling. They are available for $17 each with free shipping till the end of the week. Just comment here on my blog if you're interested.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For more of my Beaded Wire-wrapped Jewelry and Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass Kreationz for your Home and Garden, check out my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a>.</span></div>
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KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-85117726788520434832013-09-28T04:00:00.000-05:002013-09-28T04:00:00.592-05:00CBC 2000 Giveaway<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently a group I'm in on Facebook, the Creative Bead Chat held a giveaway for reaching 2000 likes. There were about 40 different artists that donated prizes. All you had to do was comment on the prize/prizes you liked and say how you would use the prize. For example, would you wear it, give it away or create something awesome with it and if creating, what would you create with it. There were some great prizes. And Lo and Behold, I won a fabulous pair of earrings from Alicia Marinache. Alicia hails from Burlington, ON Canada. She loves working with silver and copper and semi-precious stones, bringing inspirations from nature into her art. These are Etched Brass squares that have been patina'd and sealed, with glass lampwork beads attached to Sterling Silver findings. Aren't these great? They're even prettier in person. It was so great of Alicia to donate these, along with all the other artists that donated wonderful prizes. Alicia has a shop on Artfire, called </span><a href="http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/allprettythings" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All Pretty Things</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Why don't you jump over there after seeing what else I won and what the others won and who donated the prizes. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, because there was a small snafu with one of the other prizes that I though I had won, Melinda Orr generously offered to send me a prize package from her designs/stash. I love Melinda's work. She has some of her designs </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MelindaOrrDesigns/app_150178545006427" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">HERE</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and more here in </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/ORRTEC" target="_blank"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ORRTEC</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> shop. Melinda loves working with Metals and texturing and patina'ing them, plus leather. Anyway, Melinda kindly sent me this great package with one of her new designs. It's a piece of leather, wire-wrapped focal and copper wire. I know what I want to do with it, just haven't gotten a chance to put it all together yet. Plus I need a rivet/snap setting tool for the snap/clasp on the leather.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana;">To see some of my Wire-wrapped, Beaded Jewelry, Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass Kreationz for your home and garden, be sure to check out <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/" target="_blank">KayzKreationz</a>.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-14314494440109729612013-09-16T06:00:00.000-05:002013-09-16T06:00:12.663-05:00Polymer Clay Wonky Bead Blog Hop Challenge<a href="http://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently Kristi Bowman-Gruel at <a href="http://dreamsomedesigns.blogspot.com/">DreamSome Designs</a> issued a challenge for all artists using her new Polymer Clay Wonky Beads. I love them, they are so rustic and earthy looking and feeling to me. So I couldn't resist the call. And as usual, I forgot to take a before picture of the beads I received. When I got them I immediately knew I wanted to do something with macramé with the beads. I recently started getting back into macramé. I used to do it back in the 70's when it was popular and have been falling in love with it all over again. I also knew I wanted to do something very rustic and earthy/country feeling. I went back and forth between a bracelet or necklace. The necklace finally won out. I finally found some hemp cord in the color I wanted while on our epic 1900 mile road trip, bringing our new Honda Goldwing back from Virginia. (But that's another post, and video of the Tail of the Dragon ride!) LOL I also knew I wanted to use all the larger beads in the macramé part of the necklace and the smaller one as part of the clasp. And since I love copper and felt it lent the right rustic feel to the piece I found a copper washer I had, hammered/textured it and used it as the other half of the clasp. So the smaller bead is the toggle bar and the washer is the clasp. I love the magenta, purple and brown of these beads, so I went with the natural hemp and the magenta hemp cord. I also added some seed beads in the same colors to add a little bling. Then I had to decide how to lengthen the necklace as I only wanted the macramé part for the beads. I first braided this fluffy yarn I had to add to it, but didn't like the look with the macramé and earthy beads, so I had to come up with another idea. Since I was using the copper washer for the clasp, I thought I should use a copper chain. But I couldn't find a chain I liked that I felt went along with the rustic look I wanted, so I decided to make my own. I created these 'Figure 8' links, then hammered and textured them. I also made my jump rings to attach each link. I knew I would macramé the one end of the necklace back over itself from the end of one of the 'Figure 8' links. But I had to figure out how to attach the small 'toggle bar bead' to the other end. I finally decided to take some of the natural hemp, wrap it through the bead, back up over the end of one of the links and then wire-wrap it to the link with copper wire. I really like the look, although I know some may feel it is too 'eclectic'. But I think it all went together well. Be sure to check out all the other 'hoppers' and see what they created with Kristi's Polymer Clay Wonky beads. And please leave me a comment on what you like or don't like about my piece. Thanks. This shows a close-up of the beads I was sent.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, here is the whole necklace with the Kristi's Wonky Beads, my Macramé and my Hammered Copper wire links and clasp. Hope you like it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you're looking for some of my other Wire-wrapped, beaded Jewelry or Stained Glass, Mosaic and Fused Glass pieces for your Home and Garden, check out my shop, </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KayzKreationz</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-67926181115421858692013-09-06T20:07:00.002-05:002013-09-06T20:07:26.777-05:00Goodbye Garfield<a href="http://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When our youngest son moved off to New York to do some volunteer work, we inherited his cat, Garfield. He was a NEEDY cat. Worse than a dog, but he was a lot of company. He always wanted to curl up in your lap, between your feet or get right in your face. He loved sitting on my husband's desk, draped across his arm or his laptop, so he couldn't work. When we first got him, he was a little banshee. He climbed the walls of the bathroom and you couldn't get near him. But my son, Chris, kept working with him and taming him until he became our 'other' dog. He was friends/enemies with my dog, Cheyenne. He loved to slap her whenever she walked by him, of course, causing a ruckus. Still, I think he really missed her when she died last winter. He's always lost weight in the summer and always had a big pot belly. But a couple of weeks ago, he just seemed different. Then, last week when we got back from our motorcycle trip, he had really lost weight and just YOWLED at us all the time. Finally, yesterday, we decided we needed to take him to the vet to see what was wrong. He wasn't eating much, hardly drinking and didn't want any attention! That was not normal for him. Just a week or two ago, when we had gone walking, he couldn't stand being alone, so he followed us all up and down the road walking with us and meowing at us to slow down and let him catch up. The vet informed us he had FIP, Feline Infectious Peritonitus, which is untreatable and fatal. There's not any pain with it, they just don't feel good, and their abdomen fills up with fluid, (hence the bigger than normal pot belly) and they don't feel like eating, drinking or moving. We decided to bring him home for a little longer, as the vet didn't know how long he would last. But we had to leave for a while last night and when we got home, it was apparent he wasn't going to last. He hadn't moved, had thrown up on himself and didn't meow at us when we walked up on the porch or want to come in. So we brought him inside for the night and hoped for the best. This morning it was apparent he was ready to go. He wouldn't get up, look at us, want attention, eat or drink. So we mustered up our courage, wrapped him in a towel and I held him all the way into town, since he hated the cage. It only took a few minutes to let him go. We brought him back home and buried him out by his buddy/enemy Cheyenne under her little Redbud tree I've planted for her to give her shade. They're right on the edge of the pasture and drive that they liked to go run and play in. I'll miss them both.</span><br />
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KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-73655493729370384752013-08-31T05:00:00.000-05:002013-09-01T21:21:18.521-05:00Blu Mudd Bracelet Bar Design Challenge<br />
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I decided I wanted to do a stretchy bracelet with it and just needed to figure out what beads to use. I love Carnelian and decided it would go great with this. So I picked out some Carnelian chips, some Hematite ovals and some Heishi White Shell discs to finish it out. The Heishi is a little whiter than I would have liked, but I couldn't find anything with that off-white look. I think with the other colors around them, they work. Then I went in to another bead shop closer to where I live and found these great orange-brown glass faceted squares that went great with the rest of the beads. I also wanted more than one strand so finally settled on a 5 strand stretch bracelet. I had some Dark annealed Steel wire that was great to make my own jump rings to attach the strands and decided that I wanted the 2nd jump ring to be something other than round, so used my new Triangle Wubber pliers to make the 2nd jump ring on each side. I love the look, although this is only the 2nd time I've ever worked with the stretch cord, but I don't think it turned out too bad. What do you think? I love comments and suggestions so be sure to tell me what you think.<br />
My friend, Karla of </span><a href="http://texaspepperjams.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Texas Pepper Jams</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (they make the best pepper jams and fudge on Etsy) had come up for a couple of days to play so we used each other as sounding boards for our designs. And then of course decided that I needed earrings and a simple necklace to match. So out came the toggle bar clasps and chain for the earrings. My Daughter in Law showed me how to make these a couple of years ago and I love the look. (By the way, Karla is her mother. LOL) So I made some dangles out of the beads for the bracelet, attached them to 3 pieces of chain and hung them from the toggle bar which was attached to black earwires. I love them. Then I wanted just a simple necklace to go with the set, so strung the Carnelian, Black Hematite, White Heishi shell discs and the Glass beads on some beading wire, making it long enough to just slip over my head. I also added 3 more dangles just like the earrings for a focal for the necklace. I love the way the set turned out. I'm still trying to decide whether to keep it for myself or put it up for sale. How do you like my Blu Mudd Bracelet Bar Design set? There is a contest on the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BluMudd"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facebook group</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for the best design, so be sure to go there and vote for your favorite Bracelet design. Plus let each of us know what you think of our designs.<br />
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And if you're looking for some Stained Glass, Mosaics or Fused Glass Kreationz for your home or garden or more of my Jewelry check out my shop, </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KayzKreationz</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Thanks for looking.</span> </span></span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-23046209707137249732013-08-17T12:01:00.002-05:002013-08-17T12:04:31.970-05:00Work around the Ranch, Deck flower bed replanted<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've finally been getting a ton or work done around our small Texas ranch. We had redone the skirting/foundation around the bottom of the house in March, but had never gotten it done around the deck to completely close off the underneath of the house so we wouldn't get any more critters under the house. (Especially skunks, which always seem to choose the middle of the night to spray under my bedroom and wake me up.) We restacked the rocks around the deck and then I finally got to replant my flower beds. I had some Rosemary that was supposed to be prostrate rosemary and sage there before, but nobody had told them they were supposed to stay fairly small and it had become a jungle. I transplanted it all, but alas, the Rosemary didn't survive. I suppose after being in the same spot for about 15 years, they had a right to be a little upset. I will now have to get some more Rosemary and plant out by the yard gate into the pasture, because I love my Rosemary. I chose to replant with some Drift Roses that I know will stay fairly small, some Guara for the butterflies and hummingbirds and some daylilies. I had found 3 at my local nurseries that weren't just your run of the mill daylilies like everyone else has, but couldn't find anything else, so I turned to E-Bay. I found 3 fantastic ones that hopefully will be gorgeous when they bloom next year. I had only wanted one more, but couldn't resist the other 2. I got everything planted, found a large clay saucer for the top of the cactus bird bath (the original bird bath saucer had gotten broke), composted everything with some great compost from </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CompostFacility"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bell County Regional Compost Facility</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and some mulch. This is my newly replanted flower bed. I wanted to make sure it didn't get too full and I didn't want to cover up all the great rock we put around the bottom of the deck. It was a lot of work, but I'm really happy with it and can't wait to see it as it matures and all my daylilies start blooming next year. The roses are already settling in and blooming. Enjoy the pics. This was before. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll try to post more pictures as it matures. I love the way it turned out. I make Stained Glass, Mosaics and Fused Glass kreationz for your Home and Garden, so if you're looking for that unique piece for your garden, check out my shop, <a href="http://kayzkreationz.etsy.com/">KayzKreationz</a>.</span>KayzKreationzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03933419782896934949noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2938479495089239088.post-26363047060886251022013-07-20T02:00:00.000-05:002013-07-20T02:00:04.472-05:00Tree Wings Studio Blog Hop and Challenge<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're looking for my Bead Hoarders Blog Hop reveal piece, I'm sorry, I couldn't get anything finished. I had a case of Heat Exhaustion and haven't been able to finish my pieces. I'm still working on them and hope to post them soon. In the meantime, please read about my Tree Wings Reveal piece which I had already finished before this happened. Thank you so much for understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Recently I signed up for a chance to win a set of polymer clay beads from Rebekah Payne of <a href="http://www.treewingsstudio.com/">Tree Wings Studio</a>. I love her beads. I have a set with the most adorable little pony and some additional beads and I haven't had the time to make up a bracelet with them. It will be for me, since I love horses. Just need to make the time. Anyway, I got chosen to receive one set of a large and small round bead. I was overjoyed. I love the colors in them, to me very earthy and rustic. And as usual, forgot to take a picture of them before I started. I knew I wanted something very rustic, but since there were only 2 and they were different sizes I had to figure out how to use them. I had started hearing/reading about Chinese knotting and this intrigued me. It seems to be very similar to macramé which I used to do in the 70's and have been starting to re-add to my repertoire. (See my macramé anklet <a href="http://www.kayzkreationz.blogspot.com/2013/06/anklet-blog-hop-reveal.html">here</a> and a fused glass piece I did a couple of years ago and added a small macramé hanger to it and sold in my shop.) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I perused the internet for ideas and information about Chinese knotting I found a knot I like, the Chinese coin knot, I think they called it, also known as the Celtic knot a and thought it would make a great bracelet with the larger bead as the focal and the smaller one as the clasp. I found some hemp in a neutral color that matched the main color in the beads and then some wonderful 6/0 seed beads in the coordinating colors in the bead to add as pops of color. I set to work tying off a knot with a small seed bead as a stopper for the small round bead for the clasp. Then I started tying Coin/Celtic knots and adding the seed beads in between each knot. I was hoping both pieces of the hemp would go through the seed beads instead of having to put a bead on each piece, but it didn't work. I figured out how long I needed the bracelet and added the larger focal bead. Then I finished tying off the rest of the knots and the seed beads. Finally, I tied another knot, left a loop for the small bead/clasp to slide through, tied another knot and then 2 small seed beads on the end. I love the way it turned out. Very earthy, rustic that would go with so many things. The only thing I'm not fond of is the way it turns. I think I should have reversed the strings I was using working from left to right and then right to left as I would in macramé to keep it straighter. However, the tutorial I found didn't say anything about doing that. Next time I'll try it to see if it helps. Anyway, tell me what you think of my Chinese/Celtic knotted bracelet. Hope Tree Wings studio thinks I did justice to her beads. Here's the bracelet and a closeup of the larger bead/focal. Thanks for letting me play. Be sure to check out what everyone else did with their beads on <a href="http://www.treewingsstudio.com/">Tree Wings Studio</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rebekah Payne - </span><a href="http://www.treewingsstudio.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.treewingsstudio.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stephanie LaRosa - </span><a href="http://stringaholic.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://stringaholic.blogspot.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kathy Alderfer - </span><a href="http://artfulaccents.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://artfulaccents.blogspot.com/</span></a></div>
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kay Thomerson - </span><a href="http://kayzkreationz.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://kayzkreationz.blogspot.com/</span></a><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (you are here)</span></div>
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