Holiday Ornament Blog Hop 2011

Last year in a moment of panic when I realized I'd signed up for the ornament blog hop and had nothing made I gathered up bits and pieces that I no longer loved or didn't want to use...  This year I remembered my intention to particpate with 10 days to make my ornament (am I actually getting more organized?)

Even with 10 days I decided to use a similar method of assembling components...  I started with the art bead....  then came the little glass beads to compliment it....  Well the long and short of it ... the final ornament doesn't have a single component that was in the original pile...











My beaded bead was replaced with a slightly burnt enameled bead... My raindrop was remade in a colour that matched my beaded bead which I didn't use... and instead of using little flameworked beads I used small commercial triangular beads.... The original raindrops were made as a fund raiser for a local day care... 'raindrops of hope' so I thought using one in this years ornament was appropriate!











Then I hung it on the tree next to last years ornament and decided that they were much to similar...  







http://islandgirlsinsights.blogspot.com/2010/12/art-bead-scene-ornament-blog-hop-sneak.html

Link to last years ornament!



So this year Charlie's tree gets two NEW ornaments!  What a lucky tree!



Wishing everyone a happy and safe holiday season... and have a I started to declutter NO!









Here's a list of other participating blogs!
Humblebeads
Suburban Girl Studio
Life in the Lyon's Den
Jeannie's Blog
Blog by Salla
Maria Grimes
It's Been a While
Sue Beads
Artist At Work
Modern Nature Studio
WireWorked
Too Aquarius
Artfully Ornamental
Gem Rose Designs
Jewels by Ine
BeeTree by M.E.
Islandgirl's Insights   (You Are Here!)
Angela Lund-Logan
Gem's PC Corner
Summers Studio
Sandy Volpe
The Next Bend
Skye Jewels
Janina Grigore
Elysian Studios
Art Bead Scene

Almost Wordless Wednesday

 Wish I could grow these here!

Calla'n Porter Menorca

Wouldn't you like to wake up to this view every morning!

Mallorca Spain

Almost Wordless Wednesday & Bead Table Wednesday (BTW)

 New Jellies using my new Ameritool falt lap....  Actually it's a Christmas present but it seemed silly to leave it in the box for 6 weeks!

Progress.... One week of knitting in the evenings!

Should have taken these pictures yesterday as it is snowing right now.... wet heavy snow...
YUCK YUCK YUCK!

Almost Wordless Wednesday & Bead Table Wednesday (BTW)

 My bead table has been taken over by an 'afgan'  .... My mother decided that that was what they wanted for Christmas ... last weekend.... &  My husband wants to know why the factory doesn't wind the yarn into balls before they ship it...... I think it's a cost issue ...

 Comments????

Don't you just love the colours in this?  I actually bought a 'kit' seemed easier than finding yarn that matched...  Will I get this done by Christmas.....

Workshop Beads Cocoa FL with Claudia Trimbur-Pagel

Claudia showing off her eye murini  morning Day 3

 Beads Day 1

 Pirate Bead & Friend Day 2 (Spent the morning making the eye Murini in this bead!)

 Beads Day 3 this were suppose to be set into the silver clay jewellery that we made on Day 4... I'm using the brown and ivory bead top left in my ring but will not be using either butterfly in my pendant!

Backs of the window beads that I made after I got home...

Fronts of the window beads.....

Token tree bead to see if I can still make them!

Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

I always take pictures of lighthouses whenever I see them

Think this is the bottom up...

Me at the top... I finally climbed one... only 203 steps!

And yes I read the no flip flops before I went up... but since it was the only pair of shoes I had ...  Not sure why they weren't allowed...

Almost Wordless Wednesday

Ormond Beach Florida....  Just got back from a 4 day workshop with  Claudia Trimbur-Pagel
at Rocio's Studio in Cocoa FL...  Never managed to go in the water as it was cool and windy the days we were staying on the beach prior to the workshop!