It's ALL your fault- Totally INSPIRED!

Hello friends!

I just wanted to share with you that it's totally, ALL Heather's fault. For what? Well for INSPIRING me!  So I don't know if you saw it, but on February 9th for Bead Table Wednesday this is what Heather posted on her blog.

 

Here is one of the photos, but you totally need to go to her blog to see the rest! She put together these bead piles from Dream Girl Beads along with some of her beautiful Willow Pendants.  I forgot just how much I loved brown and turquoise together. I had a few more beads to make for the Bead Cruise packages so I decided to use the colors in this palette.

I thought that it would be a  bummer to get all of these amazing boxes of art beads and have to put them all into bags(that and it's an awful lot of work to plan such big events), so I decided Heather needed some fun beads for her creations as well. I figured since these were some of the colors she picked out that it was probably a pretty safe bet that she liked them ;)

So while making these beads I decided to make these discs in the same color palette. I was excited to add Creation is Messy's NEW color "Atlantis" to the set. This color is so NEW it's not yet listed on the page, but you can be sure it will be added to the Blue's section soon! It will also be available at Frantz Art Glass, so keep an eye out ;)

After creating these beads I had an amazing idea for a finished design. Dang, I was totally trying to make these for my shop! 

 Here is the finished necklace. I am SO excited because I knew I wanted the discs to hang in tiers like this, but I wasn't sure how I was going to get it to work out. Well as you can see, I did it! :D I love it when that happens!

Here is another angle shot. Pretty f*ing sweet, if you ask me! I LOVE it :D I called this piece "Running in Circles". 

Wishing you much inspiration and a weekend of awesome!

Much love,

Genea

Genea Beads- Sponsor for Bead Cruise by Humblebeads!

Hello friends!

I am SOOO EXCITED to be a sponsor for the upcoming Bead Cruise put on by Heather Powers, of Humblebeads!

It must have been "meant to be"! I just happened to be wandering around Heather's blog after seeing her awesome btw posts with her new Czech glass bead purchases from Dream Girl Beads paired with her GORGEOUS clay pieces. I had stopped over to her .com site just after the blog to spy some of her pieces. Just after I received a message from her on Etsy asking me if I would like to be a sponsor for the upcoming Bead Cruise.  While I was writing back to her, she was looking at my btw post on Flickr! Funny how we were both looking at eachothers work at the same time! 

I had told her, the universe MUST have told her I had JUST, re-designed my business cards and hand cut all of them, JUST printed new GB stickers, and JUST started sticking stickers on some promo bags I was making for Etsy! Interesting how amazing things land in your lap unannounced to you :D I love it when stuff like this happens!

So what bead can you expect in your gift bag? WING DINGS! Since everyone LOVES the fun wing ding shape, I decided that this would be the bead I would donate. They are so much fun with which to design!

 

The infamous Wing Ding bowl. Like the lime green glass bowl? I bought it from Bed, Bath and Beyond the year I got married :D It was a gift to me. Artisan made with a sweet snake signature stamp on the bottom :D 

 

So off to work I went labeling, and stuffing beady bags :D Heather must have known I needed something to occupy my time before my hubby returned home at 10:30pm last night!

 

45 DONE, 15 to go!!

Off to work!

Much love,

Genea