Christmas Collection

For the Winter Art & Crafts Fair at work this year, I have created a Christmas gifts collection...bookmarks, lanyards, charms, earrings and ornament hangers. It was lot of fun to work on a theme and designing with red, green, white and gold as the main colors. Sharing some pictures below.

Bookmarks

Lanyard

Charms

Earrings

Christmas Ornament Hangers

The Fair is tomorrow and I can't wait to see people's response to the collection.

Kalmbach Bead Soup Party

Kalmbach Jewelry Books, the publishers for Lori Anderson's Bead Soup Book hosted a bead soup in honor of Lori. I was lucky to get one of the bead soup too. The beads were from McM Designs which included a very nice textured ceramic focal with silver clasp and a mixture of orange and heart shaped beads along with crystals and pearls.

I designed a long necklace with the bead soup adding Carnelian beads from my stash.

I got the inspiration for this design from one of the bead soup designs in Lori's book. Will write more about it in book review post.