Bead Soup Partner Introduction

I signed up for the 7th Bead Soup Blog Hop, hosted by Lori Anderson of Pretty Things. She picked Karen Williams as my partner. Karen and I exchanged our ideas of wants and dislikes, and mailed our soups out. It turns out that Karen and I share a lot in common. Our love of beads, photography and nature. Here are a couple of her pieces, I stole borrowed from her blog.

I have always want to try a freeform peyote piece, looks like that is Karens specialty. Might just be the nudge I need to give it a try. Beautiful Karen!

The Soup Karen sent me.

 Look how beautifully she packaged my soup. I was so excited to rip open all the little boxes to see what was inside.

 Beautiful enameled butterfly button, lots of pretty seeds and all kinds of pretty glass beads.

Lampwork beads, silver button turquoise, silver sliders, amethyst beads, pearls, you name it, its there!

Thank you Karen for all the beautiful soup ingredients. I am so excited to get started, I have all kinds of ideas swimming in my head.

Is it Soup yet?

It is indeed soup! This is the mix my partner sent me. A lovely Porcelain (I think) butterfly pendant with shades of green, pink, black, and cream, gemstones chips, cream wooden beads, pink 8mm beads and green rondelles. I love the toggle she sent with its green stone on it. I will be going shopping tomorrow for a few things to add to this mixture. I'm not sure what I will add, but I have a couple ideas floating in my brain. Stay tuned....

Bead Soup I sent my Partner!

I heard from Theresa, my BSBP partner that her package has arrived already! So, here is what I sent to her. I was a bad girl and didn't remember to write down the name of the stones. I already shipped it out to my partner, so couldn't take it back to identify it. If anyone knows what its called, please do let me know. I know it was the last of it's kind at the bead shop so I can't even go back and try to figure it out. All I know is, I loved it and really wanted to keep it for myself.