More pictures from Spain

My husband says this one should be called lost again... which is quite unfair as the only time we weren't where we were suppose to be was the time I asked him which direction a street ran in Barcelona! Somewhere in Gaudi Park...

Same as above! Somewhere in Gaudi Park...

Fountain in the park near the Palace in Barcelona

Mahon, Menorca after the storm......

Somewhere in Mallorca .... I persuaded Gord to rent a motorbike one of the days we were there... He had one when he was 20.. so I figured he should still be able to ride one 40 years later!  Actually some of the roads we were on were so narrow I'm glad we weren't in a rental car... I'm sure they were only 1.25 cars wide! Gord calls this one Space Alien!

All the photos were taken by Gord...  we were away for 27 days ... two days longer than originally booked as we were worried that Air Canada was going to go on strike so we left 2 days early.

Almost Wordless Wednesday

 Gaudi's lizzard in Guell park, Barcelona

Inspiration for the lizzard? 

Bead Soups here! The Big Reveal!

Welcome to the 4th Bead Soup Party Reveal... there are 362 particpants from 5 continents and 21 countries... that's a lot of soup!

What I Received !

What the necklace looks like on a human, although there are family members that question the fact that I am human!
I took this picture ..it's hard  to keep a  camera flat in a mirror....

The toggle got turned into earrings, since I had another one just like it and it was much to small for the finished necklace

The necklace on a mini mannequin

strand #1 : I used the focal the Czec crystal beads and the kyanite beads, I also used some labradorite beads and some of my lampworked beads, this strand is knotted using cobalt blue stringth....  this is a link to the focal's maker!

strand # 2 is free form peyote using blue nymo thread and  any beads that I thought were even close to the right colour got incorporated into this strand!

strand #3 is kumihimo done with size 11 seed beads on sewing thread  I think strand 3 took somewhere between 24 and 36 hours to do and after I was half done I really thought that one of the threads should have been blue beads .. but there was no way I was starting over!

What my partner Ann did with the beads I sent her is here (#288)

&   here is a list of all the bead soup participants.  (I'm number 23)

Bead Soup Party Teaser

Well since tomorrow is the great reveal.. I thought I should put up a teaser... actually this is the toggle on the neclace hower it's one I made, the one that was sent to me was used elsewhere!

Can't remeber what the first thing I did to the picture was but the final distortion was to place it in a crystal ball!  I rather like the effect!

Almost Wordless Wednesday & Bead Table Wednesday (BTW)

Well my bead table is empty as my bead soup post is loaded ready for launch on Saturday morning

So instead of beads you get a picture of my favorite flower Nasturtium... It's my favorite flower because it's the only thing that I can grow from seed!

Genius in residence NOT!

I played around with my blog settings about a week ago.... and ever since then I haven't been getting any comments on my blog ????  So I tested by leaving myself one... that worked but then I deleted it so it looked like I'd been spamed... So I asked Jackie from KYDO (keep your designs original) to leave me a comment... she said she did... There still weren't any comments.... sigh, so then I went looking and guess where I found them? In a file under comments, called 'awaiting moderation'...!

I was under the illusion that I would get an email telling me that I had received a comment.... WRONG  Oh well all is well The 11 lost comments have now been found and published and I have discovered that I also have a spam folder and it is now empty!

And I discovered that I am allowed to leave comments on my own blog without them being moderated... Who would have figured!?

And since all blog posts must have an image... The jellyfish I made to replace Ghost Jelly... THis one is not nearly as stunning ... the original tenticles where fone in green,,, they did not show up ... so I redid them in white, but they are too close to the surface so got polished off!

Almost Wordless Wednesday & Bead Table Wednesday (BTW)

Two sides of a  pendant that I just finished,  it was made to match a bracelet that I made about 5 years ago... black, edp and pea green.  I had to make her the chain too as she wanted a 14 inch chain.  I thought I was small but I can barely do up the clasp!